Committee clean-up

COMMITTEE CLEAN-UP
The following 15 government bodies
will be consolidated into
departments
• Australian Government Solicitor (AGS)
• Telework Advisory Panel (TAP)
• Protection Zone Committees (PZC)
• Forces Entertainment Board
• Antarctic Research Assessment
Committee (ARAC)
• Australian Antarctic Names and Medals
Committee
• Australian Biological Resources Study
(ABRS) Advisory Committee
• Biological Diversity Advisory
Committee
• Climate Adaptation Outlook
Independent Expert Group
• Australian Sports Anti-Doping
Authority (ASADA) Advisory Group
• Health and Hospitals Fund Advisory
Board
• National Advisory for Tertiary
Education, Skills and Employment
(NATSESE)
• Inspector of Transport Security
• Reconstruction Inspectorate
• Development Allowance Authority
The following 138 government
bodies will be abolished
• Artbank Advisory Committee
• Australian and New Zealand Standard
Diagnostic Procedures (ANZSDP) Working
Group
• Benchmarks Working Group
• Department of Agriculture - Live Animal
Export Division - Industry Government
Implementation Group (IGIG)
• Forestry and Forest Products Committee
• National Surveillance and Diagnostics
Working Group
• Laboratories for Emergency Animal
Disease Diagnosis and Response
(LEADDR) Working Group
• National Strategies Working Group
• New Test Evaluation Working Group
• Rabies Preparedness Working Group
• Subcommittee on Animal Health
Laboratory Standards (SCAHLS)
• Australian Defence Force Financial
Services Consumer Council
• DMO Diversity Advisory Group
• RIZZO Reform Implementation
Committee
• DMO CEO Roundtable
• Standing Council on School Education
and Early Childhood (SCSEEC) Joint
Working Group to Provide Advice on
Students with Disability (the Joint Working
Group)
• Fair Work Building and Construction
Independent Assessor
• Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate
Advisory Board (Legislative name)
• Domestic Offsets Integrity Committee
(DOIC)
• Expert Panel on a Declared Commercial
Fishing Activity
• Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity
Board
• Oil Stewardship Advisory Council
• Product Stewardship Advisory Group
• World Parks Congress National Steering
Committee
• Authentication Governance Committee
(AGC)
• Comcover Advisory Council
• Cross Jurisdictional Chief Information
Officers' Committee (CJCIOC)
• Secretaries' ICT Governance Board
(SIGB)
• Australia International Cultural Council
(AICC)
• Diabetes Advisory Group
• Drug and Alcohol Prevention and
Treatment Advisory Committee
• Expert Panel - to review Elective Surgery
and Emergency Access Targets under the
NPA on IPHS
• National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol
Committee (NIDAC)
• National Student Services Partnership
Group
• Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service
(CRS) Australia
• Central Trades Committee
• Innovation Australia - Commercialisation
• Savings so far: $539.5m
Australia Board
• National Precincts Board
• Pharmaceutical Industry Working Group
(PIWG)
• Bureau of Resources and Energy
Economics (BREE) Advisory Board
• Inter-Jurisdictional Working Group
(IJWG)
• Local Government Ministers' Forum
(LGMF)
• National Disaster Recovery Taskforce
• Urban Policy Forum (UPF)
• Australian Council of Local Government
• Official Establishments Trust
• Anzac Centenary Public Fund Board
• Australian National Memorial New
Zealand Advisory Panel
• Community Nursing Clinical Advisory
committee
• eHealth Technical Advisory Group
• Gulf War Study Advisory Committee
• Medicines Advice and Therapeutics
Education Services (MATES) Practitioner
Reference Group
• Medicines Advice and Therapeutics
Education Services (MATES) Veterans
Reference Group
• Medicines Advice and Therapeutics
Education Services (MATES) Writing
Group
• Peacekeepers Study Advisory Committee
• Research Working Group
• Vietnam Veterans Education Centre
Advisory Panel
• Vietnam Veterans Family Study
Consultative Forum
• Business Government Advisory Group on
National Security (BGAG)
• Committee on Taxation Incentives for the
Arts
• Information Advisory Committee (IAC)
• Privacy Advisory Committee (PAC)
• Intercountry Adoption Harmonisation
Working Group
• Animal Welfare Committee
• Biosecurity Advisory Council
• Food Policy Working Group
• High-Level Group on Drought
• National Biosecurity Committee
Stakeholder Engagement Consultative
Group
• Primary Industries Standing Committee
(PISC)
• Productivity and Regulatory Reform
Committee
• Research, Development and Extension
Working Group
• Taskforce on national uniform standards
for the voluntary microchipping of horses
• Advancing Quality in Higher Education
Reference Group
• Australian Youth Forum Steering
Committee
• Higher Education Research Data
Advisory Committee (HERDAC)
• Higher Education Research Reference
Group
• International Education Advisory Council
• Entities abolished: 251
• Strategic Cross-sectoral Data Committee
(SCDC) for Early Childhood, Education
and Training
• Y20 Planning Group
• Australian Qualifications Framework
(AQF) Council
• Education Investment Fund (EIF)
Advisory Board
• COAG Select Council on Workplace
Relations
• Antarctic Science Advisory Committee
• Bureau of Meteorology Water Accounting
Standards Board
• COAG Standing Council on Environment
and Water (SCEW)
• Commonwealth Environmental Water
Stakeholder Reference Panel
• Emissions Intensive - Trade Exposed
(EITE) Expert Advisory Committee
• Fuel Standards Consultative Committee
• Iconic Sites Taskforce
• Indigenous Water Advisory Committee
• National Landscapes Reference
Committee
• National Marine Mammal Advisory
Committee
• National Marine Mammal Scientific
Committee
• Australia Awards Board
• Tourism Quality Council of Australia
• Anti-Doping Research Panel
• Department of Human Services Council
on Strategy and Innovation
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and
Intersex Working Group
• National Place-Based Advisory Group
• Australian Workforce and Productivity
Agency (AWPA)
• CSIRO - Australia Telescope National
Facility (ATNF) Steering Committee (also
referred to as: the Australia Telescope
Steering Committee)
• Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative Multi-stakeholder Group (EITI
MSG)
• Flexible Learning Advisory Group
(FLAG)
• Innovation Australia - Clean Technology
Food and Foundries Investment Committee
• Innovation Australia - Clean Technology
Innovation Committee
• Innovation Australia - Clean Technology
Investment Committee
• Innovation Australia - Innovation Grants
Committee
• Innovation Australia - R&D Tax Incentive
Advisory Committee
• Innovation Australia - Venture Capital
Committee
• Manufacturing Leaders Group
• National Senior Officials Committee
(NSOC)
• National Skills Standards Council
• National VET Equity Advisory Council
• Services Leaders Group
• Smart Grid Smart City - Strategic Policy
and Regulatory Steering Committee
• Study on the Eastern Australian Domestic
Gas Market - Industry Reference Group
• Technical Advisory Committee for the
Coal Mining Abatement Technology
Support Package (CMATSP)
• Infrastructure Coordinator
• Northern Australia Indigenous Experts
Forum on sustainable Economic
Development
• Expert Advisory Panel on Northern
Australia
• Marine Council
• Northern Australia Ministerial Forum
• Regional Australia Standing Council
(RASC)
• Australia in the Asian Century Advisory
Board
• First Peoples Education Advisory Group
(FPEAG)
• Indigenous Development effectiveness
Initiative Steering Committee (IDEISC)
• Aged Care Standards and Accreditation
Agency Ltd
• Aged Care Planning Advisory Committee
• Aged Care Reform Implementation
Council
• Healthy Life Better Ageing Committee
• Minister's Dementia Advisory Group
• National Children and Family Roundtable
• National People with Disabilities and
Carer Council
• National Injury Insurance Scheme
Advisory Group
• Australian Financial Centre Taskforce
• Current and Former Members of the ADF
Emerging Issues Forum
• National Health, Aged and Community
Care Forum
• Operational Working Party
The following 26 government bodies
are to be merged (for a net reduction
of 20 bodies)
• National Government Advisory Group on
Chemicals (NGAG)
• National Industry Reference Group on
Chemicals (NIRG)
• National Rural Advisory Council
• Vertebrate Pests Committee (VPC)
• Australian Defence Human Research
Ethics Committee
• Higher Education Standards Panel
(HESP)
• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards
Agency (TEQSA) Advisory Council
• Seafarers' Safety, Rehabilitation and
Compensation Authority (Seacare)
• Chief Information Officer Committee
(CIOC)
• Chief Information Officer Forum (CIOF)
• General Practice Recognition Appeal
Committee (GPRAC)
• General Practice Recognition Eligibility
Committee (GPREC)
• Advisory Council on Intellectual Property
(ACIP)
• Business Design Reference Group
(BDRG)
• Plant Breeder's Rights Advisory
Committee
• Accessible Public Transport National
Advisory Committee (APTNAC)
• Accessible Public Transport National
Jurisdictional Committee (APTNJC)
• Dental Advisory committee
• DVA Human Research Ethics Committee
• Local Medical Officer Advisory
Committee
• Optical Advisory committee
• Rehabilitation Appliances Program
Reference Committee
• Allied Health Advisory Committee
(AHAC)
• Principal War Gratuity Authority
• Australia-Malaysia Institute
• Australia-Thailand Institute
The back-office support for five
bodies will be provided by a
department
• Cancer Australia
• Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
(ASADA)
• Professional Services Review (PSR)
• National Health and Medical Research
Council (NHMRC)
• Australian Office of Financial
Management