Department of Home Affairs (1928–32)

The Department of Home Affairs was an Australian government department that existed between 1928 and 1932. It was the second so-named Australian Government department.

Department of Home Affairs
Department overview
Formed10 December 1928[1]
Preceding Department
Dissolved12 April 1932[1]
Superseding agency
JurisdictionCommonwealth of Australia
HeadquartersCanberra
Ministers responsible
Department executives

Scope

Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements and in the Department's annual reports.

At its creation, the Department dealt with:[1]

  • Actuarial matters
  • Aliens' registration (new matter, as the Aliens' Registration Act 1920 had not appeared before its suspension by Act of 1926)
  • Astronomy
  • Australian War Memorial
  • Census and Statistics
  • Commonwealth Literary Fund
  • Elections
  • Emigration from Australia of children and aboriginal natives
  • Forestry
  • Franchise
  • Immigration restrictions
  • Indentured coloured labour
  • Meteorology
  • Naturalisation
  • North Australia and Central Australia
  • Northern Territory
  • Oil investigation
  • Oil prospecting (encouragement of)
  • Passports
  • Pearl shelling and Trepang fisheries in Australian waters beyond territorial limits
  • People of races (other than the Aboriginal races in any State) for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws
  • Prisoners from territories
  • Prospecting for precious metals (assistance for)
  • Seat of Government
  • Solar Observatory.

Structure

The Department was a Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Home Affairs.[1]

References
  1. CA 24: Department of Home Affairs [II], Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 27 December 2013


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