Department of Education and Youth Affairs

Australian government department, 1983–1984

Department of Education (I)

Dissolved13 December 1984^[1]Superseding agency

Department of Education (II) – for education other than migrant adult education
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet – for youth affairs

JurisdictionCommonwealth of AustraliaHeadquartersPhillip, CanberraMinister responsible

Susan Ryan, Minister

Department executives

Kenneth Norman Jones, Secretary (1983)
Peter Wilenski, Secretary (1983)^[2]
Helen Williams, Acting Secretary (1983–1984)
Dick Johnson, Secretary (1984)

The Department of Education and Youth Affairs was an Australian government department that existed between March 1983 and December 1984.

History

The Department was established by the Hawke government in March 1983, a renaming of the Department of Education in view of significant changes to departmental functions following the federal election of that month.^[3]

Scope

Information about the department's functions and government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements and in the Department's annual reports.

The functions of the Department at its creation were:^[1]

Education, other than migrant adult education
Youth affairs

Structure

The Department was a Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Education and Youth Affairs.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d CA 3494: Department of Education and Youth Affairs, Central Office, National Archives of Australia, archived from the original on 16 March 2016, retrieved 11 January 2014
^ Mitcham, Chad. "Peter Stephen Wilenski (1939–1994)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
^ Hawke, Robert (10 March 1983), STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE, MR BOB HAWKE MP, archived from the original on 11 January 2014