Treasury & financeDepartment of StateExists today
Department of Finance
18 September 2013 – present
Previously Department of Finance and Deregulation (2007–2013).
Department of State responsible for expenditure policy and the budget estimates, the Commonwealth resource management framework, government property, procurement and shared services, shareholder oversight of government businesses, parliamentary and electoral support, and, since 2022, data and digital government policy.
Names over time
- Department of Finance and Administration1997–2007
- Department of Finance and Deregulation2007–2013
- Department of Finance2013–present
How it came into existence
Created on 18 September 2013 by the Administrative Arrangements Order made when the Abbott Ministry was sworn in, renaming the Department of Finance and Deregulation after deregulation and the Office of Best Practice Regulation moved to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
- Budget and expenditure
- Financial management framework
- Property, procurement and ICT
- Government business enterprises
- Ministerial and parliamentary services
Changes during its life
- 1 July 2014The Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, administered by the department, commenced, replacing the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 and the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997.
- 1 July 2022The Digital Transformation Agency and the Office of the National Data Commissioner moved into the Finance portfolio.
- 13 May 2025Services Australia moved into the Finance portfolio under the Administrative Arrangements Order made after the 3 May 2025 election.
- Data policy and support for the National Data Commissioner
- Whole-of-government ICT policy
- ICT investment oversight
- ICT procurement
- Residual assets, liabilities and functions of the corporation
- Whole-of-government ICT strategy and policy
- ICT investment oversight
- Whole-of-government ICT procurement
- Processing of parliamentarians' travel claims
- Audit and public reporting of parliamentary work expenses
From the Ministerial and Parliamentary Services division.
- Human resources services for parliamentarians' staff
Transfer of HR functions from Ministerial and Parliamentary Services; date uncertain.
Main functions
- Budget estimates and expenditure policy advice
- Commonwealth resource management framework (PGPA Act)
- Government property, procurement and shared services
- Shareholder oversight of government business enterprises
- Parliamentarians' entitlements and ministerial and parliamentary services
- Electoral matters
- Data and digital government policy
- Commonwealth insurance (Comcover) and public sector superannuation policy
Where it sits
- Type of body
- Non-corporate Commonwealth entity
- Portfolio
- Finance
- Accountable authority
- Secretary of the Department – Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 section 12(2) item 1
- ABN
- 61 970 632 495
Bodies in this portfolio (18)
- Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation 1974–2014
- ComSuper 1976–2015
- Australian Electoral Commission 1984–present
- Medibank Private Limited 1998–2014
- Australian Government Information Management Office 2004–2015
- ASC Pty Ltd 2004–present
- Future Fund Board of Guardians 2006–present
- Future Fund Management Agency 2006–present
- Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation 2011–present
- Digital Transformation Agency 2016–present
- ASC Shipbuilding Pty Ltd 2017–2018
- Australian Naval Infrastructure Pty Ltd 2017–present
- Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority 2017–present
- Office of the National Data Commissioner 2018–present
- Services Australia 2020–present
- Parliamentary Workplace Support Service 2023–present
- CEA Technologies Pty Limited 2025–present
- Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission 2025–present
Lineage
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Sources
Primary sources
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 September 2013 (created it)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 13 May 2025, as amended to 1 July 2025 (sets it out)
24 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)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 9 July 2015 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 30 September 2015 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 30 September 2015, as amended to 18 February 2016 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 30 September 2015, as amended to 19 July 2016 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 1 September 2016 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 1 September 2016, as amended to 27 October 2016 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 1 September 2016, as amended to 13 April 2017 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 19 April 2018 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 19 April 2018, as amended to 28 August 2018 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 4 April 2019 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 29 May 2019 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 29 May 2019, as amended to 1 September 2019 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 5 December 2019 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 5 December 2019, as amended to 2 April 2020 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 March 2021 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 1 June 2022 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 23 June 2022 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 13 October 2022 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 13 October 2022, as amended to 8 June 2023 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 13 October 2022, as amended to 3 August 2023 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 13 October 2022, as amended to 29 July 2024 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 13 May 2025 (sets it out)
- List of Commonwealth entities and companies under the PGPA Act, 1 July 2026 (Department of Finance)
- Australian Government Organisations Register (Department of Finance, data.gov.au) (listed from 11 December 2014 to the latest release (30 June 2026))