Department of Productivity
8 November 1976 – 3 November 1980
Fraser government Department of State intended to raise industrial productivity, responsible for productivity promotion, industrial innovation, patents, trade marks and designs, national training policy and the defence factories.
How it came into existence
Created in November 1976 by the Fraser government, with Ian Macphee as minister (Kevin Newman from December 1979). It took industrial efficiency, innovation and defence-related manufacturing from the Department of Industry and Commerce; working environment, productivity promotion and national training policy from the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations; patents, trade marks and designs from the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs; and materials handling from the Department of Transport.
- Efficiency and development of manufacturing and tertiary industries
- Industrial innovation and invention
- Defence-related manufacturing and services (defence factories)
- Working environment
- Productivity promotion
- National training policy
- Patents, trade marks and designs
- Materials handling
How it ended
Abolished on 3 November 1980. Productivity promotion and technology, the Patent Office and the Australian Industrial Research and Development Incentives Board went to the new Department of Science and Technology, and the defence factories to the Department of Industry and Commerce.
- Defence factories and defence-related manufacturing
- Technology and productivity promotion
- Industrial research and development incentives
- Patents, trade marks and designs (Patent Office)
Main functions
- Productivity promotion
- Industrial efficiency, technology and innovation
- Patents, trade marks and designs (Patent, Trade Marks and Designs Offices)
- Industrial research and development incentives
- Working environment and national training policy
- Defence factories and defence-related manufacturing
- Materials handling
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