The Department was one of several new Departments established by the Whitlam government, a wide restructuring that revealed some of the new government's program.[2]
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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.
At the department's creation it was responsible for:[1]
Trade and Commerce with other countries, including trade promotion.
department, overseas, trade, australia, department, overseas, trade, australian, government, department, that, existed, between, december, 1972, december, 1977, department, overseas, tradedepartment, overviewformed19, december, 1972, preceding, departmentdepar. The Department of Overseas Trade was an Australian government department that existed between December 1972 and December 1977 Department of Overseas TradeDepartment overviewFormed19 December 1972 1 Preceding DepartmentDepartment of Trade and IndustryDissolved20 December 1977 1 Superseding agencyDepartment of Trade and ResourcesJurisdictionCommonwealth of AustraliaHeadquartersCanberraMinisters responsibleJim Cairns Minister 1972 1974 Frank Crean Minister 1974 1975 Doug Anthony Minister 1975 1977 Department executiveDoug McKay Secretary Contents 1 History 2 Scope 3 Structure 4 ReferencesHistory editThe Department was one of several new Departments established by the Whitlam government a wide restructuring that revealed some of the new government s program 2 Scope editInformation 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 At the department s creation it was responsible for 1 Trade and Commerce with other countries including trade promotion Organising trade fairs exhibitions and field days overseas to promote Australian made products Trade agreements and export services Publishing Overseas Trading 3 Structure editThe Department was a Commonwealth Public Service department staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Overseas Trade 1 References edit a b c d CA 1485 Department of Overseas Trade Central Office National Archives of Australia retrieved 9 February 2021 National Archives of Australia Gough Whitlam In Office National Archives of Australia archived from the original on 19 April 2013 Overseas Trading NLA catalogue record nbsp This Australian government related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Department of Overseas Trade Australia amp oldid 1150975312, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
