Department of Education and Science

Created on 13 December 1966 by the Administrative Arrangements Order for the second Holt ministry, with John Gorton as its first minister. It took the Education Division, CSIRO, the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian National University from the Prime Minister's Department, absorbed the Commonwealth Office of Education, and took education in the Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay from the Department of the Interior and education in the Northern Territory from the Department of Territories.

Abolished on 19 December 1972 by the Whitlam government and split in two: education went to the new Department of Education and science to the new Department of Science.

• Commonwealth education policy and research
• Universities and colleges of advanced education (Australian Universities Commission and advanced education commission)
• Commonwealth scholarships
• Education in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory
• Overseas student schemes, including the Colombo Plan, and Australian activities in UNESCO
• CSIRO and scientific research policy
• Research grants (Australian Research Grants Committee)
• Migrant education

• Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education 1965–1971

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