Treasury & financeAgencyExists today
Australian Office of Financial Management
AOFM
1 July 1999 – present
Agency that manages Australian Government debt and cash, issuing Treasury Bonds, Treasury Indexed Bonds and Treasury Notes and investing in structured finance markets when directed.
How it came into existence
Established on 1 July 1999 by executive decision as a separate agency in the Treasury portfolio, with no enabling Act and staffed through the Treasury, taking over the Treasury's debt management functions.
- Commonwealth debt management
- Cash management
Main functions
- Issuance of Commonwealth Government Securities
- Management of the Commonwealth's debt portfolio
- Cash management for the Commonwealth
- Investment in residential mortgage-backed and other securitisation markets
Where it sits
In the portfolio of Department of the Treasury.
- Type of body
- Non-corporate Commonwealth entity
- Portfolio
- Treasury
- Accountable authority
- Chief Executive Officer – Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014 schedule 1 item 2(c)
- ABN
- 13 059 525 039
Lineage
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Sources
Primary sources
- List of Commonwealth entities and companies under the PGPA Act, 1 July 2026 (Department of Finance) (as Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM))
- Australian Government Organisations Register (Department of Finance, data.gov.au) (listed from 11 December 2014 to the latest release (30 June 2026))