37th Parliament

Elected 13 March 1993 · first met 4 May 1993 · dissolved 29 January 1996

The changes below took effect from its election on 13 March 1993 to 1 March 1996, the day before the next election, so they count the work of the government it produced.

Paul Keating (Labor)

Changes

17 renamed from6 merged from4 absorbed21 split from3 replaced

Departments of State

12 / 10

created / abolished

Other bodies

46 / 36

created / ended

Administrative Arrangements Orders

on the Federal Register, which holds few orders before 2001

The biggest reshuffle took effect on 24 March 1993, when 7 changes landed on one day.

Departments of State created (12)

Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services 1993
Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs 1993–1996
Department of Industry, Technology and Regional Development 1993–1994
Department of the Arts and Administrative Services 1993–1994
Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories 1993–1997
Department of Communications 1993–1994
Department of Human Services and Health 1993–1996
Department of Transport 1993–1996
Department of Administrative Services 1994–1997
Department of Communications and the Arts 1994–1998
Department of Housing and Regional Development 1994–1996
Department of Industry, Science and Technology 1994–1996

Departments of State abolished (10)

Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce 1984–1993
Department of Administrative Services 1987–1993
Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs 1987–1993
Department of Transport and Communications 1987–1993
Department of Health, Housing and Community Services 1991–1993
Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories 1991–1993
Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services 1993
Department of Industry, Technology and Regional Development 1993–1994
Department of the Arts and Administrative Services 1993–1994
Department of Communications 1993–1994

Other bodies created (46)

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Telstra Corporation Limited 1993–2006
Australian Nature Conservation Agency 1993–1996
National Registration Authority for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals 1993–2004
Refugee Review Tribunal 1993–2015
Australian Wool Research and Promotion Organisation 1993–2001
Wool International 1993–1999
Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory 1994–2002
Australian Building Codes Board 1994–present
Australian Student Traineeship Foundation 1994–2001
Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research 1994–1996
Chemical Weapons Convention Office 1994–1998
Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation 1994–2007
National Native Title Tribunal 1994–present
Office of Strategic Crime Assessments 1994–2003
Supervising Scientist 1994–present
Commission of Inquiry into the Australian Secret Intelligence Service 1994–1995
Industrial Relations Court of Australia 1994–1997
Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Leasing by the Commonwealth of Accommodation in Centenary House 1994
Repatriation Medical Authority 1994–present
Specialist Medical Review Council 1994–present
Professional Services Review 1994–present
Superannuation Complaints Tribunal 1994–2020
Torres Strait Regional Authority 1994–present
Commission of Inquiry into the Relations between the CAA and Seaview Air 1994–1996
Australian Agency for International Development 1995–2013
Australian Multimedia Enterprise Limited 1995–1999
Employment Assistance Australia 1995–1998
Employment Services Regulatory Authority 1995–1998
National Breast Cancer Centre 1995–2008
National Environment Protection Council Service Corporation 1995–2014
Office of Government Information Technology 1995–1997
Private Health Insurance Complaints Commissioner 1995–1998
Public Service and Merit Protection Commission 1995–2002
Indigenous Land Corporation 1995–2019
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health 1995–2014
Airservices Australia 1995–present
Civil Aviation Safety Authority 1995–present
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 1995–present
Australian Competition Tribunal 1995–present
National Competition Council 1995–present
Australia New Zealand Food Authority 1996–2002
Classification Board 1996–present
Classification Review Board 1996–present
Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia 1996–2013
Office of Asset Sales 1996–1997
Office of National Tourism 1996–1998

Other bodies ended (36)

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National Debt Commission 1923–1994
Commonwealth Film Censorship Board 1928–1996
Coal Industry Tribunal 1947–1995
Aeronautical Research Laboratories 1949–1994
Australian Tobacco Board 1965–1995
Trade Practices Tribunal 1967–1995
Qantas Airways Limited 1967–1995
Films Board of Review 1970–1996
Australian Wool Corporation 1973–1993
Pipeline Authority 1973–1994
Materials Research Laboratories 1974–1994
Trade Practices Commission 1974–1995
Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service 1975–1993
Trade Union Training Authority 1975–1996
Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee 1977–1994
Primary Industry Bank of Australia Limited 1978–1994
Supervising Scientist for the Alligator Rivers Region 1978–1994
Security Appeals Tribunal 1980–1995
Automotive Industry Authority 1984–1994
Prices Surveillance Authority 1984–1995
Aerospace Technologies of Australia Pty Ltd 1987–1995
Australian Space Office 1987–1996
Australian International Development Assistance Bureau 1987–1995
Public Service Commission 1987–1995
Civil Aviation Authority 1988–1995
Shipping Industry Reform Authority 1989–1995
Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Limited 1989–1993
CSL Limited 1991–1994
Australian Wool Realisation Commission 1991–1993
Wool Research and Development Corporation 1991–1993
National Food Authority 1991–1996
Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation Limited 1992–1993
Bureau of Immigration and Population Research 1993–1994
Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research 1994–1996
Commission of Inquiry into the Australian Secret Intelligence Service 1994–1995
Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Leasing by the Commonwealth of Accommodation in Centenary House 1994

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Departments of State created (12)

Departments of State abolished (10)

Other bodies created (46)

Other bodies ended (36)

Every change (51)

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