Output Group 4—Support Services for Government Operations

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• Group Outputs
• Description
• Administered items

Group Outputs

Output Group 4: Support services for government operations

Output 4.1: Cabinet Secretariat

Output 4.2: Cabinet Implementation Unit

Output 4.3: Machinery of government

Output 4.4: Government communications

Output 4.5: Support to official establishments

Output 4.6: Support for ministerial offices

Output 4.7: Ceremonial and hospitality

Description

As of 30 June 2004, Output Group 4 comprised seven outputs and functionally consisted of:

• Cabinet Secretariat
• Cabinet Implementation Unit
• Government Division
• People, Resources and Communications Division
• People and Resource Management Branch (which provides outputs 4.5 and 4.6)
• Ceremonial and Hospitality Unit (CERHOS).

Group 4 outputs include the following services:

• provision of support services for government operations, including coordination of Cabinet and Executive Council business
• provision of policy advice on parliamentary, machinery of government, legal and cultural issues
• coordination of government communications
• administration of the Prime Minister’s official establishments
• provision of policy advice on, and coordination and promotion of, national awards and symbols
• administration of the state occasions and official visits programme.

Administered items

Output Group 4 reports on each administered item as part of the relevant output’s performance report, as follows:

• 4.3—National Australia Day Council
• 4.4—Media Commissions Advance Account
• 4.5—Prime Minister’s official residences
• 4.6—allowances and support to former Governors-General
• 4.7—state occasions and official visits.

Outputs 4.1 and 4.2 had no administered items on which to report in the 2003-04 financial year.