Department of Science and the Environment
The Department of Science and the Environment was an Australian government department that existed between December 1978 and November 1980.
| Department overview | |
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| Formed | 5 December 1978[1] |
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| Dissolved | 3 November 1980[1] |
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| Jurisdiction | Commonwealth of Australia |
| Headquarters | Canberra |
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Scope
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.
According to the National Archives of Australia, at its creation, the Department was responsible for:[1]
- Science and technology, including research, support of research and support of civil space research programs.
- Environment and conservation
- Meteorology
- Ionospheric Prediction Service
- Analytical laboratory Service
- Weights and measures.
Structure
The Department was an Australian Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Science and the Environment.[1]
The Department was headed by a Secretary, John Farrands.[1]
gollark: Eventually support seems to come from... bored programmers adding it, some big company pushing it, or it just eventually being implemented in a few things with fallbacks.
gollark: Probably just that while people like the idea of better-compressed images, it's not very useful for a browser or whatever to implement it if no sites use it, and not very useful for a site to implement it if no browsers support it.
gollark: I'm not really sure.
gollark: No, at least in this field they're frequently made by large well-funded teams, but it just takes ages for support to be implemented anywhere.
gollark: I mean, apart from support, AVIF is not very good in terms of being supported by anything at all, but it's technologically superior.
References
- CA 2749: Department of Science and the Environment, Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 12 December 2013
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