List of Australian Commonwealth Government entities

This is a list of Australian government departments, bureaus and commissions, authorities and corporations.

Government in Australia is delivered by a number of agencies, grouped under areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by a government minister who is a member of the Parliament of Australia, appointed by the Governor-General of Australia as the representative of the Crown. The Governor-General is advised on the appointment of ministers by the Prime Minister, who in turn demonstrates to the Governor-General that he has the confidence of the House.

The agencies are principally grouped as eighteen principal departments, each led by a secretary, director-general, or similarly-titled executive officer and comprising a number of portfolios covering specific policy areas across the department and allocated statutory authorities, trading enterprises, boards, councils and other public bodies. Agencies have varying levels of operational autonomy, and deliver one or more of frontline public services, administrative functions and law enforcement. Some are structured as for-profit corporations. Where there are multiple portfolios within a department, the Secretary may be accountable to a number of ministers.

A government led by the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, the Hon. Malcolm Turnbull MP in coalition with the Leader of the National Party of Australia, the Hon. Barnaby Joyce MP, was sworn in by the Governor-General on 18 September 2013. The Government changed the structure and portfolios of a number of agencies.

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