Merged, consolidated and abolished: the government will work through a “methodical” process of slashing some 175 agencies from the Commonwealth ranks. Read the full list.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott assured the nation that “business goes on” amid the siege situation in Sydney that caused the evacuation of New South Wales and Commonwealth agencies in Martin Place. The Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook — axing and consolidating 175 agencies — was no exception.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann would not quantify additional staff cuts to the Commonwealth public service, originally announced in the budget as 16,500.
“We’re still on track for that,” Cormann told the media conference in Parliament House today. “Our objective is to bring staffing levels across the public sector federally back to the same level as back in 2007-08.
“There will obviously be further efficiencies as a result of announcements reflected in MYEFO today, but that process is now to be gone through. Our objective ultimately, as it should be, is to ensure the administration and operations of government at a federal level are as efficient and effective as possible. Some of the decisions, of course, to merge bodies, to abolish bodies, to consolidate various functions will lead to further opportunities for efficiencies but they will be quantified as we go through those processes in an orderly and methodical fashion.”
MYEFO’s largest savings are $3.7 billion over four years in cuts to foreign aid and lengthening the budgeted lifespan of in-house computer software from four years to five years. The government estimates software efficiencies will save $420 million over the four years to 2017-18.
Other expenses are going up, notably redundancies and superannuation payouts. Some $280 million will be paid out in redundancy payouts this year, although with fewer predicted separations in the next three years they anticipate paying out a further $50 million each year until 2018. Superannuation costs have risen 67%, or an additional $2.47 billion, as staff retire.
Contestability, streamlining and targeting of program delivery remains a top priority of the government, as well as functional and efficiency reviews of major government bodies. The report fingers Health and Education for the first to be assessed:
“The government will commence in‑depth reviews of the functions and efficiency particularly of larger government agencies and departments. These reviews will determine whether the current resourcing and functions performed within an entity are aligned with the Government’s policy priorities and that they are being undertaken as efficiently as possible. The departments of Health and Education (other than higher education) will be the first bodies to be reviewed.
“The 2014‑15 MYEFO includes a further tranche of major rationalisation of government bodies, to ensure the public sector is as streamlined, effective and transparent as possible. Delivering a smaller and more rational government footprint is designed to clarify lines of accountability, to make the public sector more agile and better able to address changing pressures and government priorities.”
A further 175 government bodies will be cut, building on previous decisions to defund agencies in the 2014-15 budget, “taking the total reduction in the number of government bodies since the election to 251”.
In total 138 statutory bodies, advisory committees, councils and boards will be abolish. Another 15 bodies will be merged into line departments, and 26 bodies will be reduced to six but remain separate from their line department. Two bodies will have responsibilities transferred outside the Commonwealth.
Five bodies will consolidate their back office functions with shared service centres or supporting departments. The government says these measures will “further reduce the overheads from an excessive number of stand‑alone bodies, reducing inefficiencies and removing duplicated effort across the public sector”.
MYEFO also includes two new initiatives: the introduction of an Australian Government Governance Policy, to take effect from December 15, to impose new constraints on the establishment and design of new government bodies, and the launch of an Australian Government Organisations Register, to create the first complete online listing of all government bodies.
Cormann says the register reveals that at taking office there were 1252 separate government bodies. “Our goal is to get this well below a 1000 by the end of this term of Government,” he said in his MYEFO ministerial statement.
Nadine Flood, the Community and Public Sector Union national secretary, responded to the announcement with concern:
“The Abbott government has already cut at least 8000 jobs this year, the deepest cuts to the public service in over a decade. MYEFO confirms the government is on track to cut at least another 8700 jobs this year. On top of this is the introduction of so called ‘contestability’ for public services, which is nothing more than cover for massive outsourcing and privatisation programs that will see jobs and services sold off. The only contest will be which big business will pick up the contract.”
Portfolio | Body | Reform | Decision | Five Year Total $m |
AGD | Artbank Advisory Committee | Cease | Cease the Artbank Advisory Committee, with Artbank to consult with external experts on a needs basis. | * |
AGD | National Government Advisory Group on Chemicals (NGAG) | Merge | Merge the NGAG with the National Industry Reference Group on Chemicals and continue under the auspices of the Australian-New Zealand Counter Terrorism Committee CBRN sub-committee. | * |
AGD | National Industry Reference Group on Chemicals (NIRG) | Merge | Merge the NIRG with the National Government Advisory Group on Chemicals and continue under the auspices of the Australian-New Zealand Counter Terrorism Committee CBRN sub-committee. | * |
AGD | Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) | Consolidate | Consolidate the Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) within the Attorney-General’s Department (AGD), to strengthen the flexibility within the department for officers to work across both legal advice and legal policy. Following the amalgamation, the Government will conduct a review of legal services to identify efficiencies that can be gained in government legal costs. | + |
AGD | Business Government Advisory Group on National Security (BGAG) | Ceased | This body has been ceased and replaced by the Attorney-General’s Industry Consultation on National Security. | * |
AGD | Committee on Taxation Incentives for the Arts | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
AGD | Information Advisory Committee (IAC – advises the Australian Information Commissioner) | Cease | This body is being ceased (legislation is in the parliament). | * |
AGD | Privacy Advisory Committee (PAC) | Cease | This body is being ceased (legislation is in the parliament). | * |
AGD | Intercountry Adoption Harmonisation Working Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. Functions of this group now moved to the Central Authorities for Intercountry Adoption. | * |
Agriculture | Animal Welfare Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Agriculture | Australian and New Zealand Standard Diagnostic Procedures (ANZSDP) WG | Cease | Cease the body. Minister to review in 2015 to rationalise laboratory-related standard setting bodies and assess which relevant technical expertise can be brought into the department rather than posited with separate bodies. | * |
Agriculture | Australian Landcare Council | Transfer Out | Cease the body as the function/activity is more suitably performed by an industry and community organisation convened representational forum. | * |
Agriculture | Benchmarks Working Group (working group under the Intergovernmental agreement on National Biosecurity) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | 0.017 |
Agriculture | Biosecurity Advisory Council | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Agriculture | Department of Agriculture – Live Animal Export Division – Industry Government Implementation Group (IGIG) | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Agriculture | Forestry and Forest Products Committee | Cease | Maintain in the medium term, to implement an election commitment. Consistent with the Australian Government Governance Policy, a sunset date of less than five years will be determined. | * |
Agriculture | National Rural Advisory Council | Merge | Merge the body into the Agricultural Industry Advisory Council. | * |
Agriculture | National Surveillance and Diagnostics Working Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Agriculture | Vertebrate Pests Committee (VPC) | Merged | VPC merged with the Invasive Plant and Animals Committee. | 0.011 |
Agriculture | Laboratories for Emergency Animal Disease Diagnosis and Response (LEADDR) Working Group | Cease | Cease the body. Minister to review in 2015 to rationalise laboratory-related standard setting bodies and assess which relevant technical expertise can be brought into the department rather than posited with separate bodies. | * |
Agriculture | National Strategies Working Group (a sub-body under the Animal Health Committee) | Cease | Cease the body. Minister to review in 2015 to rationalise laboratory-related standard setting bodies and assess which relevant technical expertise can be brought into the department rather than posited with separate bodies. | * |
Agriculture | New Test Evaluation Working Group (a sub-body under the Animal Health Committee) | Cease | Cease the body. Minister to review in 2015 to rationalise laboratory-related standard setting bodies and assess which relevant technical expertise can be brought into the department rather than posited with separate bodies. | * |
Agriculture | Rabies Preparedness Working Group | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Agriculture | Subcommittee on Animal Health Laboratory Standards (SCAHLS) | Cease | Cease the body. Minister to review in 2015 to rationalise laboratory-related standard setting bodies and assess which relevant technical expertise can be brought into the department rather than posited with separate bodies. | * |
Agriculture | Food Policy Working Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Agriculture | High-Level Group on Drought | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Agriculture | National Biosecurity Committee Stakeholder Engagement Consultative Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * | ||||
Agriculture | Primary Industries Standing Committee (PISC) | Ceased | This body has been ceased and replaced by AGSOC. | * | ||||
Agriculture | Productivity and Regulatory Reform Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased as part of ADMIN/AGSOC reforms. | * | ||||
Agriculture | Research, Development and Extension Working Group | Ceased | This body has been cease as part of ADMIN/AGSOC reforms. | * | ||||
Agriculture | Taskforce on national uniform standards for the voluntary microchipping of horses | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * | ||||
Communications | Telework Advisory Panel (TAP) | Consolidate | Cease the body. The function will be performed as part of the department’s core advisory role. | * | ||||
Communications | Protection Zone Committees (PZC) | Consolidate | Cease the body and perform the function in-house, with external advice sought on a needs basis. | * | ||||
Defence | Australian Defence Force Financial Services Consumer Council | Cease | Cease the body, with the Department to continue the service by coordinating the provision of information. | * | ||||
Defence | Australian Defence Human Research Ethics Committee | Merge | Merge with DVA Human Research Ethics Committee in July 2017. | * | ||||
Defence | DMO Diversity Advisory Group | Cease | Sunset in 2015 after completion of a workforce diversity plan. Subsequent diversity strategies across the portfolio are to be managed by the Department. | * |
Defence | Forces Entertainment Board | Consolidate | Cease the body. Function to be undertaken as part of the department’s core advisory role, drawing on external advice as required. | * |
Defence | RIZZO Reform Implementation Committee | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Defence | DMO CEO Roundtable | Cease | Consistent with the Australian Government Governance Policy, set a sunset date of 2019 aligned to completion of medium term strategies. Note that future industry engagement will be considered in the White Paper and First Principles Review. | * |
Defence | Centre for Military and Veterans’ Health (CMVH) | Transferred Out | The body is now run by the University of Queensland. | * |
Defence | Principal War Gratuity Authority | Merged | The body has merged with the Australian Military Forces Relief Fund. | * |
Education | Standing Council on School Education and Early Childhood (SCSEEC) Joint Working Group to Provide Advice on Students with Disability (the Joint Working Group) | Ceased | Sunset in 2015 after work under current terms of reference completes. Cessation will require agreement of the states and territories. | * |
Education | Higher Education Standards Panel (HESP) | Merge | Merge the TEQSA Advisory Council and the HESP. | * |
Education | Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) Advisory Council | Merge | Merge the TEQSA Advisory Council and the HESP. | * |
Education | Advancing Quality in Higher Education Reference Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Education | Australian Youth Forum Steering Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Education | Higher Education Research Data Advisory Committee (HERDAC) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Education | Higher Education Research Reference Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Education | International Education Advisory Council | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Education | Strategic Cross-sectoral Data Committee (SCDC) for Early Childhood, Education and Training | Ceased | This body has been ceased. Some legacy work is being transferred to a departmental data strategy group. | * |
Education | Y20 Planning Group | Ceased | Cease the body, as the Y20 has been completed. | * |
Education | Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Council | Ceased | This body has been ceased with the agreement of state and territory Ministers. | * |
Education | Education Investment Fund (EIF) Advisory Board | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Employment | Fair Work Building and Construction Independent Assessor | Cease | Cease the body. | 0.082 |
Employment | Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate Advisory Board (Legislative name) | Cease | Cease the body. | 0.021 |
Employment | Seafarers’ Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Authority (Seacare) | Merge | The Seacare Authority’s functions will be transferred to the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission. | 0.095 |
Employment | COAG Select Council on Workplace Relations | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Environment | Antarctic Research Assessment Committee (ARAC) | Consolidate | The Department of the Environment will absorb the functions of the Committee. | * |
Environment | Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee | Consolidate | Cease the body. The Department of the Environment to absorb the functions of the Committee and provide advice on place names and medal recipients. | * |
Environment | Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) Advisory Committee | Consolidate | Cease the body. Function to be performed as part of the department’s core advisory role. | 0.036 |
Environment | Biological Diversity Advisory Committee | Consolidate | Cease the body. Function to be performed as part of the department’s core advisory role. | * |
Environment | Climate Adaptation Outlook Independent Expert Group | Consolidate | Cease the body. Function to be performed as part of the department’s core advisory role. | * |
Environment | Domestic Offsets Integrity Committee (DOIC) | Cease | Body to be ceased and replaced with the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee. | * |
Environment | Expert Panel on a Declared Commercial Fishing Activity | Cease | Cease the two panels at the time of the sunset clauses at the end of October 2014 and mid April 2015. | * |
Environment | Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Environment | Oil Stewardship Advisory Council | Cease | Cease the body. The Department will coordinate alternative arrangements for consultation with stakeholders. | 0.009 |
Environment | Product Stewardship Advisory Group | Cease | Cease the body. The Department will coordinate alternative arrangements for consultation with stakeholders. | 0.005 |
Environment | World Parks Congress National Steering Committee | Cease | Cease the body when the sunset clause takes effect in December 2014. | * |
Environment | Antarctic Science Advisory Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Environment | Bureau of Meteorology Water Accounting Standards Board | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Environment | COAG Standing Council on Environment and Water (SCEW) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Environment | Commonwealth Environmental Water Stakeholder Reference Panel | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Environment | Emissions Intensive – Trade Exposed (EITE) Expert Advisory Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Environment | Fuel Standards Consultative Committee | Cease | This body is being ceased (legislation is in the parliament). | * |
Environment | Iconic Sites Taskforce | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Environment | Indigenous Water Advisory Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Environment | National Landscapes Reference Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Environment | National Marine Mammal Advisory Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Environment | National Marine Mammal Scientific Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Finance | Authentication Governance Committee (AGC – responsible for online authentication) | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Finance | Chief Information Officer Committee (CIOC) | Merge | Merge the CIOF and the CIOC into a less formal ‘community of practice’ with Finance as the organiser, to ensure continued input into whole of government ICT policy. | * |
Finance | Chief Information Officer Forum (CIOF) | Merge | Merge the CIOF and the CIOC into a less formal ‘community of practice’ with Finance as the organiser, to ensure continued input into whole of government ICT policy. | * |
Finance | Comcover Advisory Council | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Finance | Cross Jurisdictional Chief Information Officers’ Committee (CJCIOC) | Cease | Cease the body and manage cross-jurisdictional issues through a less formal ‘community of practice’, with the organiser alternating annually between the Commonwealth (lead taken by the newly merged CIOC/CIOF) and a State/Territory. | * |
Finance | Secretaries’ ICT Governance Board (SIGB) | Cease | Cease the body. Cross Government ICT matters to be considered instead by the Ministerial Taskforce on Single Service Delivery or Secretaries’ Board, where appropriate. | * |
Finance | Intragovernment Communications Network (ICON) | Scoping Studies | Scoping study to be completed by Finance in 2015. | * |
Foreign Affairs and Trade | Australia International Cultural Council (AICC) | Cease | Abolish the body with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Arts to jointly agree funding and arrangements for a new streamlined advisory body within the Arts portfolio. | * |
Foreign Affairs and Trade | Australia Awards Board | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Foreign Affairs and Trade | Australia-Malaysia Institute | Merged | This body has been amalgamated with the Australia-Thailand Institute to form the Australia-ASEAN Institute. | * |
Foreign Affairs and Trade | Australia-Thailand Institute | Merged | This body has been amalgamated with the Australia-Malaysia Institute to form the Australia-ASEAN Institute. | * |
Foreign Affairs and Trade | Tourism Quality Council of Australia | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Health | Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) Advisory Group | Consolidate | Cease the body. Advice on detection, deterence and enforcement is a core role for the agency and the department. | * |
Health | Cancer Australia | Back-office Merger | Cancer Australia to be part of a shared services rollout, sharing the Department of Health’s corporate services. | 0.754 |
Health | Diabetes Advisory Group | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Health | Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Advisory Committee | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Health | Expert Panel – to review Elective Surgery and Emergency Access Targets under the NPA on IPHS | Cease | Sunset from July 2015. | * |
Health | Health and Hospitals Fund Advisory Board | Consolidate | Cease the body. Uncommitted HHF funding will transfer to the Medical Research Future Fund. | * |
Health | Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) | Back-office Merger | ASADA to be part of a shared services rollout, sharing the Department of Health’s corporate services. | 1.327 |
Health | Professional Services Review (PSR) | Back-office Merger | PSR to be part of a shared services rollout, sharing the Department of Health’s corporate services. | 0.601 |
Health | General Practice Recognition Appeal Committee (GPRAC) | Merge | Merge with and utilise data from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency for DHS determinations. | * |
Health | General Practice Recognition Eligibility Committee (GPREC) | Merge | Merge with and utilise data from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency for DHS determinations. | * |
Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) | Back-office Merger | NHMRC to be part of a shared services rollout, sharing the Department of Health’s corporate services. | 3.026 |
Health | Anti-Doping Research Panel | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Human Services | National Student Services Partnership Group | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Human Services | Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service (CRS) Australia | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Human Services | Department of Human Services Council on Strategy and Innovation | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Human Services | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Working Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Human Services | National Place-Based Advisory Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) | Merge | Merge with IP Australia. External advice can be sourced by IP Australia or the department on a needs basis. | * |
Industry | Business Design Reference Group (BDRG) | Merge | Merge the Business Design reference group (BDRG) into the Business Online Service (BOS) Management Committee. | * |
Industry | Central Trades Committee | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Industry | Innovation Australia – Commercialisation Australia Board | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | National Precincts Board | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Industry | Pharmaceutical Industry Working Group (PIWG) | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Industry | Plant Breeder’s Rights Advisory Committee | Merge | Cease body and merge with IP Australia. External advice can be sourced by the department on a needs basis. | * |
Industry | Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE) Advisory Board | Cease | Cease the body from September 2015 following expiration of the MoU with the ABARE. | * |
Industry | Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency (AWPA) | Ceased | This body has been ceased, with advice to the Government on skills and workforce development needs provided by the Department of Industry. | 3.605 |
Industry | CSIRO – Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) Steering Committee (also referred to as: the Australia Telescope Steering Committee) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Multi-stakeholder Group (EITI MSG) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Innovation Australia – Clean Technology Food and Foundries Investment Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Innovation Australia – Clean Technology Innovation Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Innovation Australia – Clean Technology Investment Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Innovation Australia – Innovation Grants Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Innovation Australia – R&D Tax Incentive Advisory Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Innovation Australia – Venture Capital Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Manufacturing Leaders Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | National Advisory for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment (NATSESE) | Consolidated | The body has ceased. Functions have been brought into the Department. | * |
Industry | National Senior Officials Committee (NSOC) | Ceased | This body has been ceased and cross-jurisdictional skills issues are dealt with by officials on a needs basis. | * |
Industry | National Skills Standards Council | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | National VET Equity Advisory Council | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Services Leaders Group (consults business, unions and the research sector) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Smart Grid Smart City – Strategic Policy and Regulatory Steering Committee | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Study on the Eastern Australian Domestic Gas Market – Industry Reference Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Industry | Technical Advisory Committee for the Coal Mining Abatement Technology Support Package (CMATSP) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Infrastructure | Accessible Public Transport National Advisory Committee (APTNAC) | Merge | Merge the Accessible Public Transport Jurisdictional Committee (APTJC) with the Accessible Public Transport National Advisory Committee (APTNAC). | * |
Infrastructure | Inspector of Transport Security | Consolidate | Consolidate specialist support staff for the Inspector into the department and appoint the Inspector on a retainer basis, supported by a panel of pre-qualified professional expertise that can be drawn upon when the Minister initiates a review of a security incident. These reforms will remove overheads associated with a full-time office. | * |
Infrastructure | Inter-Jurisdictional Working Group (IJWG – considers referrals from Local Government Ministers’ Forum) | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Infrastructure | Local Government Ministers’ Forum (LGMF) | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Infrastructure | National Disaster Recovery Taskforce | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Infrastructure | Urban Policy Forum (UPF) | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Infrastructure | Australian Council of Local Government | Cease | Cease the body. The function overlaps and duplicates functions of the separate Australian Local Government Association. | * |
Infrastructure | Reconstruction Inspectorate | Consolidate | Cease the body and transfer any residual functions to Emergency Management Australia and the Attorney-General’s Department. | * |
Infrastructure | Accessible Public Transport National Jurisdictional Committee (APTNJC) | Merge | Merge the Accessible Public Transport Jurisdictional Committee (APTJC) with the Accessible Public Transport National Advisory Committee (APTNAC). | * |
Infrastructure | Infrastructure Coordinator | Ceased | This body has been ceased following announcement of the new IA Board on 1 September 2014. | * |
Infrastructure | Northern Australia Indigenous Experts Forum on sustainable Economic Development | Ceased | This body has been ceased on 28 February 2014 with the announcement of the creation of the Northern Australia strategic partnership. | * |
Infrastructure | Expert Advisory Panel on Northern Australia | Ceased | This body has been ceased on 28 February 2014 with the announcement of the creation of the Northern Australia strategic partnership. | * |
Infrastructure | Marine Council | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Infrastructure | Northern Australia Ministerial Forum | Ceased | This body has been ceased on 28 February 2014 with the announcement of the creation of the Northern Australia strategic partnership. | * |
Infrastructure | Regional Australia Standing Council (RASC) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
PM&C | Official Establishments Trust | Cease | Cease the body. | 0.078 |
PM&C | Australia in the Asian Century Advisory Board | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
PM&C | First Peoples Education Advisory Group (FPEAG) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
PM&C | Indigenous Development effectiveness Initiative Steering Committee (IDEISC) | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
PM&C | National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (NIDAC) | Cease | Cease the body, with the Australian National Advisory Council on Alcohol and Drugs to deal with these matters. | * |
Social Services | Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency Ltd | Ceased | This body has been ceased. Quality assurance is now dealt with by the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency. | * |
Social Services | Aged Care Planning Advisory Committee | Cease | This mechanism is being ceased and a streamlined consultation process will be developed for the 2015 Aged Care Approvals Round. | * |
Social Services | Aged Care Reform Implementation Council | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Social Services | Healthy Life Better Ageing Committee | Ceased | Plans to establish this body have been ceased, due to the establishment of the Aged Care Sector Committee which provides broad stakeholder policy input and engagement. | * |
Social Services | Minister’s Dementia Advisory Group | Ceased | Body ceased on 30 November 2013. These issues are dealt with through the Aged Care Sector Committee and time-limited Dementia Advisory Forum. | * |
Social Services | National Children and Family Roundtable | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Social Services | National People with Disabilities and Carer Council | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Treasury | Australian Office of Financial Management | Back-office Merger | Consolidation of back-office functions with Treasury is underway. | * |
Treasury | Development Allowance Authority | Consolidate | Formally fully consolidate the function of dealing with the legacy members of the schemes into the ATO, primarily to manage any changes to conditions during the eight remaining years of the scheme. Assign duties to the Commissioner of Taxation. | * |
Treasury | National Injury Insurance Scheme Advisory Group | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Treasury | Australian Financial Centre Taskforce | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Anzac Centenary Public Fund Board | Cease | Sunset by 1 May 2019. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Australian National Memorial New Zealand Advisory Panel | Cease | Sunset by 1 July 2015. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Community Nursing Clinical Advisory committee | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Dental Advisory committee | Merge | Merge its functions into the Allied Health Advisory Committee. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | DVA Human Research Ethics Committee | Merge | Merge with the Australian Defence Human Research Ethics Committee in July 2017. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | eHealth Technical Advisory Group | Cease | Sunset by 1 July 2015. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Gulf War Study Advisory Committee | Cease | Sunset by 1 July 2015. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Local Medical Officer Advisory Committee | Merge | Merge the Local Medical Officer Advisory Committee into the Health Innovation – Clinical Reference Group | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Services (MATES) Practitioner Reference Group | Merge | Cease the body on 30 June 2015 when contracts are due to expire. Future arrangements will be informed by an independent review which is presently underway. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Services (MATES) Veterans Reference Group | Merge | Cease the body on 30 June 2015 when contracts are due to expire. Future arrangements will be informed by an independent review which is presently underway. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Services (MATES) Writing Group | Merge | Cease the body on 30 June 2015 when contracts are due to expire. Future arrangements will be informed by an independent review which is presently underway. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Optical Advisory committee | Merge | Merge its functions into the Allied Health Advisory Committee. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Peacekeepers Study Advisory Committee | Cease | Sunset by 1 July 2015. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Rehabilitation Appliances Program Reference Committee | Merge | Merge its functions into the Allied Health Advisory Committee. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Research Working Group (oversights DVA research) | Cease | Cease the body. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Vietnam Veterans Education Centre Advisory Panel | Cease | Sunset by 1 July 2015. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Vietnam Veterans Family Study Consultative Forum | Cease | Sunset following report of the Vietnam Veterans’ Family Study. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Allied Health Advisory Committee (AHAC) | Merge | Merge the functions of the Rehabilitation Appliances Program Reference Committee into the Allied Health Advisory Committee. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | Current and Former Members of the ADF Emerging Issues Forum | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | National Health, Aged and Community Care Forum | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
Veterans’ Affairs | DVA Operational Working Party | Ceased | This body has been ceased. | * |
* = Not quantified and no save returned to Budget.
+ = The savings from the merger of the Australian Government Solicitor into the Attorney-General’s Department will be quantified in 2015, following a review of legal services to identify efficiencies.