Department of Agriculture
18 September 2013 – 21 September 2015
Previously Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (1998–2013). Renamed Department of Agriculture and Water Resources in 2015.
Department of State responsible for agriculture, fisheries and forestry policy, biosecurity and quarantine, export inspection and certification, drought assistance, and agricultural research and economics (ABARES).
Names over time
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry1998–2013
- Department of Agriculture2013–2015
- Department of Agriculture and Water Resources2015–2019
- Department of Agriculture2019–2020
- Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment2020–2022
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry2022–present
How it came into existence
Created by the Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 September 2013, at the start of the Abbott government, when the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry was renamed with its functions largely unchanged. Barnaby Joyce became Minister for Agriculture.
- Agriculture, fisheries and forestry policy
- Biosecurity and quarantine
- Export certification
Changes during its life
- Water market monitoring and reporting (ABARES)
The commission was abolished by the National Water Commission (Abolition) Act 2015, in force 17 June 2015; ABARES took over its water market reporting.
How it ended
Renamed the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources on 21 September 2015, when the Turnbull government moved water policy and resources to it from the Department of the Environment.
- Agriculture, fisheries and forestry
- Biosecurity
- Export certification
Main functions
- Agricultural, fisheries and forestry industry policy
- Biosecurity and quarantine
- Export inspection and certification
- Drought and rural assistance
- Agricultural research and economics (ABARES)
- Oversight of the rural research and development corporations
Bodies in this portfolio (3)
- Sugar Research and Development Corporation 1990–2013
- Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation 1991–2014
- Wine Australia Corporation 2010–2014
Lineage
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Sources
Primary sources
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 September 2013 (created it)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 9 July 2015 (sets it out)
2 more Administrative Arrangements Orders set it out
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 12 December 2013 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 23 December 2014 (sets it out)
- Australian Government Organisations Register (Department of Finance, data.gov.au) (listed from 11 December 2014 to 23 October 2015)
- Administrative Arrangements Order, 18 September 2013 (Federal Register of Legislation, C2013G01404)