Department of Education and Youth Affairs

Department of Education and Youth Affairs

Department overview
Formed	11 March 1983
Preceding Department	Department of Education (I)
Dissolved	13 December 1984
Superseding agency	Department of Education (II) - for education other than migrant adult education Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet - for youth affairs
Jurisdiction	Commonwealth of Australia
Headquarters	Phillip, Canberra
Minister responsible	Susan Ryan, Minister
Department executives	Kenneth Norman Jones, Secretary (1983) Peter Wilenski, Secretary (1983) Helen Williams, Acting Secretary (1983‑84) Dick Johnson, Secretary (1984)

The Department of Education and Youth Affairs was an Australian government department that existed between March 1983 and December 1984.

The Department was established by the Hawke Government in March 1983, a renaming of the Department of Education in view of significant changes to departmental functions following the federal election of that month.

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.

The functions of the Department at its creation were:

The Department was a Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Education and Youth Affairs.

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