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The Department of Science and Technology 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 November 1980 and December 1984.


History

The department was created by the
Fraser government The Fraser government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. It was made up of members of a Liberal–Country party coalition in the Australian Parliament from November 1975 to March 1983. Init ...
, joining the Department of Productivity with the Department of Science and the Environment, having received advice from the Australian Science and Technology Council that there would be merit in merging the two departments. The department was abolished by the
Hawke government The Hawke government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1983 to 1991. The government followed the Liberal-National Coalition Fraser government and was su ...
in December 1984, making way for the new
Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
.


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. According to the Administrative Arrangements Order made on 3 November 1980, the department dealt with: *Science and technology, including research, support of research and support of civil space research programs *Productivity of industry *Patents of inventions and designs, and trade marks *Meteorology *Ionospheric prediction services *Analytical laboratory services *Weights and measures


Structure

The department was an
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department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Ministers for Science and Technology.


References

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