Department of Home Affairs (1928–32)
| Department overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 10 December 1928[1] |
| Preceding Department | Department of Home and Territories |
| Dissolved | 12 April 1932[1] |
| Superseding agency | Department of the Interior (I) |
| Jurisdiction | Commonwealth of Australia |
| Headquarters | Canberra |
| Ministers responsible |
Aubrey Abbott, Minister (1928‑29) Arthur Blakeley, Minister (1929‑32) Archdale Parkhill, Minister (1932) |
| Department executives |
William Clemens, Secretary (1928) Percy Deane, Secretary (1929‑32) |
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.
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 an Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Home Affairs.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 CA 24: Department of Home Affairs [II], Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 27 December 2013