Key Contacts

Central entities for MoG changes

Department of Finance

Responsibilities:

  • Funding – annual appropriations, special appropriations, special accounts and charging arrangements 
  • Financial and budgetary reporting 
  • Banking by Commonwealth entities and management of the Official Public Account (OPA) 
  • Grants
  • Property
  • Comcover 
  • Procurement (except for ICT procurements) 
  • Annual reports and performance reporting 
  • Corporate plans
  • Average Staffing Levels (ASL) 
  • Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA Act) 
  • Investment Funds and Superannuation 
  • Commonwealth Investment Framework and Government Business Enterprises (GBEs)

MOG Advice 

Australian Public Service Commission

Responsibilities:

  • Public Service Act 1999 (PS Act) 
  • APS Commissioner’s Directions 2022
  • Recruitment and employment in the Australian Public Service (APS) 
  • SES Cohort Policy
  • Merit and Transparency Policy (for APS agency heads) 
  • Government’s public sector workplace relations policy 
  • Industrial instruments
  • CEO/agency head remuneration (the Remuneration Tribunal)
  • Moving APS employees as part of a Machinery of Government change (MoG)

Employment Policy 

  • PS Act 
  • APS recruitment, engagement and separations 
  • Classifications
  • Transfers of employees under section 72 of the PS Act 

employmentpolicy@apsc.gov.au 

SES Cohort Policy

  • Approval and monitoring of SES numbers

SEScohort@apsc.gov.au

Workplace Relations 

  • Industrial arrangements 
  • Government’s public sector workplace relations policy 

workplacerelations@apsc.gov.au

ExecRemStatOffices@apsc.gov.au 

Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet 

Responsibilities:

  • Administrative arrangements order
  • Policy advice on the Government decisions on MoG changes 

govtsection@pmc.gov.au 

National Archives of Australia

Responsibilities:

  • Information, records and data management 
  • Information Governance Framework 
  • Archives Act 1983 

Via the online form on the NAA's Agency Service Centre website or information.management@naa.gov.au.

Other key contacts

Responsibilities:

  • Acts Interpretation Act 1901 
  • Legislation Act 2003 
  • Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre
  • Legal Services Directions 
  • Australian Government Solicitor 
  • Courts and tribunals 
  • Public Interest Disclosure 
  • Privacy 
  • Freedom of Information 
  • Human Rights 

Administrative law issues, including substituted reference orders, Acts Interpretation Act and Legislation Act

adminlaw@ag.gov.au

Sunsetting under the Legislation Act 

sunsetting@ag.gov.au

Fraud Control 

info@counterfraud.gov.au

Office of Legal Services Coordination 

olsc@ag.gov.au

Human Rights

humanrights@ag.gov.au

Responsibilities:

  • Protective Security Policy Framework (security clearances)

pspf@homeaffairs.gov.au

(02) 5127 9999

protectivesecurity.gov.au

Responsibilities:

  • Workers’ compensation insurance 
  • Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and Regulations 
  • Rehabilitation and return to work

Work Health and Safety Act

WHS.help@comcare.gov.au 

Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act

scheme.policy_helpdesk@comcare.gov.au 

Responsibilities:

Administration of Commonwealth employee superannuation 

Employee Superannuation 

employer.service@csc.gov.au

  • Australian Business Numbers (ABN) 

Australian Business Register: abrenquiries@ato.gov.au

For enquiries regarding:

  • Tax File Numbers (TFN) 
  • Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) 
  • Pay as You Go (PAYG) 
  • Goods and Services Tax (GST) 
  • Single Touch Payroll 
  • Activity statements 
  • Taxable payments annual report 

Business enquiries: 13 28 66

For enquiries regarding:

  • Superannuation
  • SuperStream

13 10 20

For enquiries regarding:

  • Lodge and Pay obligations

13 11 42 

Responsibilities:

  • Business names

Changing business names: Transferring business name

Responsibilities:

  • Australian Government Information Security Manual 

Australian Cyber Security Centre 

asd.assist@defence.gov.au

Responsibilities:

  • Digital and information and communications technology (ICT) investments 
  • ICT procurements 
  • Protected Utility Blueprint (Office 365) 

ICT Investments 

investments@dta.gov.au

ICT Procurements 

ictprocurement@dta.gov.au

Protected Utility 

protectedutility@dta.gov.au

Responsibilities:

  • Handling personal information under the Privacy Act 1988 and the Privacy (Australian Government Agencies - Governance) APP Code 2017
  • Carrying out functions under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, including oversight of the Information Publication Scheme 
  • Overseeing government information policy functions 

Phone enquiries: 1300 363 992 

Via the online form on the OAIC’s website

Responsibilities:

  • DATA Scheme

information@datacommissioner.gov.au


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