| AAT |
Administrative Appeals Tribunal |
| administered items |
Those assets, liabilities, revenues
and expenses that are controlled by the Australian Government
but managed or overseen by the department on the government’s
behalf |
| AIPRD |
Australia–Indonesia Partnership
for Reconstruction and Development |
| ANAO |
Australian National Audit Office |
| ANZSOG |
Australia and New Zealand School
of Government |
| APEC |
Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| APS |
Australian Public Service |
| Archives Act |
Archives Act 1983 |
| ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| AUSPIC |
The government photographic service |
| Australian Government |
The Government of the Commonwealth
of Australia |
| Australiana Fund |
A private company established in
1978 to encourage direct public participation in the acquisition
and preservation of a permanent collection of works of Australian
artistic and historical interest for the four official residences |
| AWA |
Australian Workplace Agreement |
| biofuels |
Fuels produced from renewable organic
sources |
| CABNET |
The secure document management system
used to store and transmit Cabinet documents |
| CAS |
Central Advertising System |
| CEIs |
Chief Executive Instructions |
| CERHOS |
Ceremonial and Hospitality Branch |
| CIU |
Cabinet Implementation Unit |
| COAG |
Council of Australian Governments |
| CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation |
| DAFF |
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Forestry |
| Defence |
Department of Defence |
| DEH |
Department of the Environment and
Heritage |
| DOSS |
Development Opportunity Secondment
Scheme |
| FICC |
Foreign Intelligence Coordination
Committee |
| FOI |
freedom of information |
| FOI Act |
Freedom of Information Act 1982 |
| FTA |
free trade agreement |
| GCU |
Government Communications Unit |
| IT |
information technology |
| ITIL |
Information Technology Infrastructure
Library |
| JEFG |
Joint Economic Forecasting Group |
| MCGC |
Ministerial Committee on Government
Communications |
| Mutual Recognition Agreement |
A 1992 agreement between Australian
governments to address the difficulties caused by regulatory
differences between jurisdictions in relation to goods and occupations |
| NAA |
National Archives of Australia |
| NADC |
National Australia Day Council |
| NCP |
National Competition Policy |
| NCTC |
National Counter-terrorism Committee |
| NSC |
National Security Committee of Cabinet |
| NWI |
National Water Initiative |
| OH&S |
occupational health and safety |
| ONA |
Office of National Assessments |
| OSW |
Office of the Status of Women |
| PACCT |
Publicly Funded Agencies’ Collaborative
Counter-terrorism research programme |
| PNG |
Papua New Guinea |
| RAMSI |
Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon
Islands |
| reasonable adjustment |
Providing an employee with a disability
with services and/or facilities to assist them in carrying out
the inherent requirements of their employment, where this does
not impose unjustifiable hardship on the employer |
| SCNS |
Secretaries’ Committee on
National Security |
| SES |
Senior Executive Service |
| SET Unit |
Science, Engineering and Technology
Unit of the National Security Division |
| SSAN |
security sensitive ammonium nitrate |
| WMD |
weapons of mass destruction |
| WPU |
Women’s Policy Unit |
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