About us

The Department

Governance and administration

  • Strategic Directions 2009-11

  • Client Service Charter

    Your rights and responsibilities and the steps that you can take if our service standards are not met. It also sets out our feedback process, so that you can tell us how well we are performing and how we can improve our service to you.

  • Annual Reports

  • Australian Government Budget—BCDE portfolio

    Links to current and previous Australian Government budget information relating to the DBCDE portfolio.

  • Reconciliation Action Plan 2010–12

    The Reconciliation Action Plan 2010–12 outlines a range of actions to enable the Department to realise its vision for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

  • Senate Order on departmental contracts

    Full list of the Senate Order on Departmental contracts.

  • Reporting requirements and reviews

    Under the Legal Services Directions 2005 paragraph 11.1(ba) the Department is required to make publicly available records of our legal services purchasing expenditure for the previous year by 30 October.

  • Procurement support to other agencies

    The Department has established a number of panels to assist in the procurement of frequently-used services. This link provides more information for suitably qualified agencies to access these services through the existing panel arrangements.

  • File listing

    View departmental file lists as required under the Harradine Motion.

  • Freedom of Information

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act), members of the public can seek access to documents and files held by the Department.

  • Bergin Review

    Trish Bergin, a consultant and former senior public servant, reviewed resource allocations across the Department to inform the DBCDE organisational chart.

 
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