Department of Home Affairs (1928–1932)

The Department of Home Affairs was an Australian government department that existed between 1928 and 1932. It was the second so-named Australian Government department.

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.

At its creation, the Department dealt with:^[1]

• Actuarial matters
• Aliens' registration (new matter, as the Aliens' Registration Act 1920 had not appeared before its suspension by Act of 1926)
• Astronomy
• Australian War Memorial
• Census and Statistics
• Commonwealth Literary Fund
• Elections
• Emigration from Australia of children and aboriginal natives
• Forestry
• Franchise
• Immigration restrictions
• Indentured coloured labour
• Meteorology
• Naturalisation
• North Australia and Central Australia
• Northern Territory
• Oil investigation
• Oil prospecting (encouragement of)
• Passports
• Pearl shelling and Trepang fisheries in Australian waters beyond territorial limits
• People of races (other than the Aboriginal races in any State) for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws
• Prisoners from territories
• Prospecting for precious metals (assistance for)
• Seat of Government
• Solar Observatory.

Structure[]

The Department was a Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Home Affairs.^[1]

References[]

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