About us

The Department

• News and events

• Key People

• DBCDE organisational structure (PDF, 36 kb)

• Contacts

  How to email, send a letter or fax to or phone the Department or contact the Minister.

• Library

  The DBCDE Library provides a range of services to the Department and the general public.

• Tenders

• Department archive

  Use the link above to go directly to the Department’s online archive for policies, programs and publications that are no longer current.

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.