The Department of Repatriation and Compensation was an
Australian government
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or simply as the federal government, is the national executive government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The executive consists of the pr ...
department that existed between June 1974 and December 1975.
History
The department was created by the
Whitlam government
The Whitlam government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party. The government commenced when Labor defeated the McMahon government at the 1972 Australian federal elect ...
in 1974, expanding on the narrower
Repatriation Department, with the intention that the new department would perform a wider total function of compensation to deserving groups in the community.
The new compensation function included Commonwealth employees compensation, seamen's compensation, natural disasters, air accidents, the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation and Defence Service Homes Loans Insurance and the proposed Australian Government Insurance Office.
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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 report.
The functions of the Department at its creation were:
Structure
The Department was a Commonwealth Public Service
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department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation.
References
Repatriation and Compensation
Ministries established in 1974
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