Office of Defence Production
ODP
13 December 1984 – May 1989
Office within the Department of Defence that ran the Commonwealth's defence factories and dockyards, including the ordnance, ammunition, explosives, small arms and clothing factories, the Government Aircraft Factories and the naval dockyards, until they were corporatised or sold.
How it came into existence
Created on 13 December 1984, when the Department of Defence Support was abolished and its government defence factories and dockyards passed to the Department of Defence, where they were grouped as the Office of Defence Production.
- Government defence factories and dockyards
How it ended
Wound up once its undertakings had been corporatised or sold: the Government Aircraft Factories became Aerospace Technologies of Australia in 1987, the Williamstown Naval Dockyard was sold, and the remaining factories passed to Australian Defence Industries Pty Ltd in May 1989.
- Operation of government munitions, explosives and clothing factories
Main functions
- Management of government munitions and explosives factories
- Small arms production
- Government clothing factory
- Aircraft production through the Government Aircraft Factories
- Naval dockyard operations
Where it sits
Last in the portfolio of Department of Defence.
Lineage
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Sources
Government records and websites
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