Central entities for MoG changes
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)
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
SES Cohort Policy
- Approval and monitoring of SES numbers
Workplace Relations
- Industrial arrangements
- Government’s public sector workplace relations policy
Responsibilities:
- Administrative arrangements order
- Policy advice on the Government decisions on MoG changes
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
Sunsetting under the Legislation Act
Fraud Control
Office of Legal Services Coordination
Human Rights
Responsibilities:
- Protective Security Policy Framework (security clearances)
(02) 5127 9999
Responsibilities:
- Workers’ compensation insurance
- Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and Regulations
- Rehabilitation and return to work
Work Health and Safety Act
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act
Responsibilities:
Administration of Commonwealth employee superannuation
Employee Superannuation
- 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:
- Australian Government Information Security Manual
Australian Cyber Security Centre
Responsibilities:
- Digital and information and communications technology (ICT) investments
- ICT procurements
- Protected Utility Blueprint (Office 365)
ICT Investments
ICT Procurements
Protected Utility
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