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+Document Dump icon designed by Iconathon, 2013 +Contact us: maxious@lambdacomplex.org -Organisational Data Sources +Exports: All Agencies Agency Employee Headcounts +

Attributions

+National Archives of Australia, Australian Governments’ Interactive Functions Thesaurus, 2nd edition, September 2005, published at http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/thesaurus/index.htm
+data.gov.au http://data.gov.au/dataset/directory-gov-au-full-data-export/
+directory.gov.au
+australia.gov.au http://australia.gov.au/about/copyright
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Organisational Data Sources

http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Browse/Results/ByTitle/AdministrativeArrangementsOrders/Current/Ad/0 defines departments -Agencies can be found in the Schedule to an Appropriation Bill (budget), Schedule to FMA Regulations and/or Public Service Act. +Agencies can be found in the Schedule to an Appropriation Bill (budget), Schedule to FMA Regulations and/or Public Service Act.
-http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/flipchart/docs/FMACACFlipchart.pdf summarises these +http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/flipchart/docs/FMACACFlipchart.pdf summarises these. view-source:https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.advancedsearch.home is great for the suspended/active status
+ +Fraud in gov depts by Fairfax Media http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service-keeps-fraud-cases-private-20110923-1kpdr.html
When defining the hierachy, this system is designed towards monitoring accountablity. Thus large agencies that have registered their own ABN -and have their own accountablity mechanisms/website recieve a seperate record as a child of their department. -Some small agencies will choose to simply rely on their parent department's accountablity measures. +and have their own accountablity mechanisms/website receive a seperate record as a child of their department.
+Some small agencies will choose to simply rely on their parent department's accountablity measures.
-This flows through to organisation name and other/past names. A department that accounts for an agency will list that agency as an other child name. -As agencies themselves shift between departments, there may be scope for providing time ranges but typically the newest hierarchy will be the one recorded. -A department/agency name will be the newest active name assigned to that ABN. +This flows through to organisation name and other/past names. A department that completely accounts for an agency will list that agency as an other child name.
+As agencies themselves shift between departments, there may be scope for providing time ranges but typically the newest hierarchy will be the one recorded.
+A department/agency name will be the newest active name assigned to that ABN.
+ +ABN information is derived from the ABR. This is the definitive umpire about which former name should be linked to which current name.
+For example "Department of Transport and Regional Services" became "Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government" (same ABN) +however it later split into "Department of Infrastructure and Transport" (same ABN) +and "Department of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government" (new ABN).
Statistical information from http://www.apsc.gov.au/stateoftheservice/1011/statsbulletin/section1.html#t2total https://www.apsedii.gov.au/apsedii/CustomQueryx33.shtml +and individual annual reports.
-Open Government Scoring -+1 point for every true Has... attribute --1 point for every false Has... (ie. Has Not) attribute + -