Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development
DIRD
18 September 2013 – 20 December 2017
Previously Department of Infrastructure and Transport (2010–2013). Renamed Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities in 2017.
Department of State responsible for infrastructure investment, land transport, aviation and maritime transport, transport security, regional development, local government and the non-self-governing territories.
Names over time
- Department of Transport1993–1996
- Department of Transport and Regional Development1996–1998
- Department of Transport and Regional Services1998–2007
- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government2007–2010
- Department of Infrastructure and Transport2010–2013
- Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development2013–2017
- Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities2017–2019
- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development2019–2020
- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications2020–2022
- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts2022–2025
- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts2025–present
How it came into existence
Created by the Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 September 2013 when the Department of Infrastructure and Transport was renamed at the start of the Abbott government, taking regional development, local government and the territories from the abolished Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport. Warren Truss became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development.
- Infrastructure investment
- Transport policy and regulation
- Transport security
- Regional development
- Local government
- Administration of the non-self-governing territories
Changes during its life
- Office of the Infrastructure Coordinator
On becoming an independent statutory body under the Infrastructure Australia Amendment Act 2014.
- Western Sydney Airport project delivery
How it ended
Renamed the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities on 20 December 2017, when it took on cities policy from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and transport security went to the new Department of Home Affairs.
- Transport security (Office of Transport Security)
- Infrastructure investment
- Transport
- Regional development
- Local government
- Territories
Main functions
- Land transport infrastructure investment (roads and rail)
- Aviation and airports
- Maritime and surface transport policy and regulation
- Transport security (Office of Transport Security)
- Regional development programs
- Local government financial assistance
- Administration of the non-self-governing territories, including the Norfolk Island reforms
Lineage
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Sources
Primary sources
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 September 2013 (created it)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 1 September 2016, as amended to 13 April 2017 (sets it out)
8 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)
- Australian Government Organisations Register (Department of Finance, data.gov.au) (listed from 11 December 2014 to 30 September 2017)
- Administrative Arrangements Order, 18 September 2013 (Federal Register of Legislation, C2013G01404)