Department Of Industry And Science
The Department of Industry and Science was a government department, department of the Government of Australia, Australian Government responsible for consolidating the Government's efforts to drive economic growth, productivity and competitiveness by bringing together industry, energy, resources and science. History The department was established on 23 December 2014, taking on most of the functions of the previous Department of Industry (Australia), Department of Industry; but transferring skills responsibilities to the Department of Education and Training (Australia), Department of Education and Training. The Department's creation, and the associated swearing in of Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane (politician), Ian Macfarlane when he added "Science" to his title, was seen by several media outlets as an admission from the Abbott government that it had been a mistake to not have a dedicated Science minister in 2014. The Department was abolished and replaced with the Department of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Department Of Industry (Australia)
The Australian Department of Industry was a government department, department of the Government of Australia, Australian Government charged with shaping Australia's future economy through skills, discovery and innovation. The Department existed between September 2013 and December 2014. Ministerial officeholders were: * The Minister for Industry (Australia), Minister for Industry The Honourable, the Hon Ian Macfarlane (politician), Ian Macfarlane **The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry the Hon Bob Baldwin (politician), Bob Baldwin References {{DEFAULTSORT:Department of Industry (Australia) Defunct government departments of Australia, Industry 2014 disestablishments in Australia 2013 establishments in Australia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Department Of Industry, Innovation And Science
The Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources was a department of the Australian Government responsible for consolidating the Government’s efforts to drive economic growth, productivity and competitiveness by bringing together industry, energy, resources and science. The department superseded the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science on 1 February 2020. It was superseded by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water on 1 July 2022. The head of the department at the time of dissolution was the Secretary, David Fredericks. The Chief Scientist for Australia has reported to the Minister for Science of the day since 1989. History Following the appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister, the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science was established on 21 September 2015, taking on the functions of the previous Department of Industry and Science The Department of Indu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Government Of Australia
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or simply as the federal government, is the national Executive (government), executive government of Australia, a federalism, federal Parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The executive consists of the Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister, Cabinet of Australia, cabinet ministers and other ministers that currently have the support of a majority of the members of the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives (the lower house) and also includes the Australian Government#Departments, departments and other List of Australian Government entities, executive bodies that ministers oversee. The Albanese government, current executive government consists of Anthony Albanese and other ministers of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), in office since the 2022 Australian federal election, 2022 federal election. The Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister is the Head of gove ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ian Macfarlane (politician)
Ian Elgin Macfarlane (born 5 April 1955) is an Australian former politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2016, representing the Liberal Party. He served as a minister in the Howard and Abbott governments. Macfarlane was born in Kingaroy, Queensland, and was a farmer before entering politics. He was elected to parliament at the 1998 federal election, representing the Division of Groom. Macfarlane was appointed Minister for Small Business in January 2001. After the 2001 election, he was made Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, a position he held until the Howard government's defeat at the 2007 election. Macfarlane returned to cabinet in 2013 as Minister for Industry (later Industry and Science) in the Abbott government. He lost his position when Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister in September 2015, and retired from politics at the 2016 election. He is currently chief executive of the Queensland Resources Council. Early life Mac ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Minister For Industry (Australia)
The Minister for Industry and Innovation is an Australian Government cabinet position which is currently held by Tim Ayres following his swearing-in on 13 May 2025 as a result of Anthony Albanese's Labor government being re-elected at the 2025 Australian federal election. In the Government of Australia, the minister administers this portfolio through the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. Scope other bodies in the portfolio included: * Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation * Australian Skills Quality Authority * Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency * CSIRO * Geoscience Australia * IP Australia * National Advisory for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment * Office of the Chief Scientist * Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency The Australian Space Agency opened in Adelaide in February 2020. List of industry ministers The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for Industry or any precursor title. : Morrison ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Glenys Beauchamp
Glenys Ann Beauchamp is a senior Australian public servant. She was a departmental secretary between 2010 and 2020, across multiple departments and portfolios. Life and career Beauchamp was awarded a Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University in 1977. Beauchamp began her Australian Public Service career as a Graduate in the Industry Commission, an agency that existed between 1990 and 1998 and was responsible for holding public inquiries and reporting on matters referred by the Government; and reporting annually on the economic performance of industry, and the effects of assistance and regulation on industry and the economy. Before 2006, Beauchamp held a number of positions in the ACT Public Service, including Deputy Chief Executive, Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services and Deputy CEO, Department of Health. Beauchamp rejoined the Australian Public Service in 2002, in the Department of Family and Community Services. In January 2006, Beau ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Government Department
Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level Executive (government), executive bodies in the Machinery of government, machinery of governments that manage a specific sector of public administration." Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона", т. XIX (1896): Мекенен — Мифу-Баня, "Министерства", с. 351—357 :s:ru:ЭСБЕ/Министерства These types of organizations are usually led by a politician who is a member of a cabinet (government), cabinet—a body of high-ranking government officials—who may use a title such as Minister (government), minister, Secretary of state, secretary, or commissioner, and are typically staffed with members of a non-political civil service, who manage its operations; they may also oversee other Government agency, government agencies and organiza ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Department Of Education And Training (Australia)
The Australian Department of Education and Training was a former Government department, department of the Government of Australia that was in existence between 2014 and 2019 and which was charged with the responsibility for national policies and programs that help Australians access quality and affordable early childhood education, school education, higher education, vocational education and training, international education and academic research. The head of the department was the Departmental secretary, Secretary of the Department of Education and Training, Michele Bruniges, who reported to the Minister for Education and Training#List of ministers for education and training, Minister for Education and Training, The Honourable, the Hon. Dan Tehan MP. History The department was formed by way of an Machinery of government#Australian Government Administrative Arrangement Orders, Administrative Arrangements Order issued on 23 December 2014. It incorporated the functions of the prev ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Abbott Government
The Abbott government was the federal executive government of Australia led by the 28th Prime Minister Tony Abbott. The government was made up of members of the Liberal–National Coalition. The Leader of The Nationals, Warren Truss, served as Deputy Prime Minister. Following the 2013 Australian federal election held on 7 September, the Coalition defeated the second Rudd government, ending six years of Labor government. The Abbott government was sworn into office on 18 September 2013. Less than two years later on 14 September 2015, Malcolm Turnbull defeated Abbott in a leadership ballot, 54 votes to 44 and the Turnbull government became the executive government of Australia. In economic policy, the Abbott government aimed to rein in a budget deficit that reached A$48.5 billion by June 2014. It concluded free trade agreements with China, Japan and South Korea. It removed the Rudd-Gillard era Resource Super Profits Tax and carbon pricing. It established the Nationa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Plant Breeders' Rights
Plant breeders' rights (PBR), also known as plant variety rights (PVR), are rights granted in certain places to the breeder of a new variety of plant that give the breeder exclusive control over the propagating material (including seed, cuttings, divisions, tissue culture) and harvested material ( cut flowers, fruit, foliage) of a new variety for a number of years. The system of Plant breeders' rights is considered a sui generis form of intellectual property rights. With these rights, the breeder can choose to become the exclusive marketer of the variety, or to license the variety to others. In order to qualify for these exclusive rights, a variety must be new, distinct, uniform, and stable. A variety is: *''new'' if it has not been commercialized for more than one year in the country of protection; *''distinct'' if it differs from all other known varieties by one or more important botanical characteristics, such as height, maturity, color, etc.; *''uniform'' if the plant chara ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2014 Establishments In Australia
Fourteen or 14 may refer to: * 14 (number), the natural number following 13 and preceding 15 * one of the years 14 BC, AD 14, 1914, 2014 Music * 14th (band), a British electronic music duo * ''14'' (David Garrett album), 2013 *''14'', an unreleased album by Charli XCX * "14" (song), a 2007 song by Paula Cole from ''Courage'' * "Fourteen", a 2000 song by The Vandals from '' Look What I Almost Stepped In...'' Other uses * ''Fourteen'' (film), a 2019 American film directed by Dan Sallitt * ''Fourteen'' (play), a 1919 play by Alice Gerstenberg * ''Fourteen'' (manga), a 1990 manga series by Kazuo Umezu * ''14'' (novel), a 2013 science fiction novel by Peter Clines * '' The 14'', a 1973 British drama film directed by David Hemmings * Fourteen, West Virginia Fourteen was an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |