In 2009 the Community Safety Department was established. It replaced the Corrective Services Department and the Emergency Services Department. The Community Safety Department was responsible for the administration of corrective and emergency services. In 2013 the Department of Community Safety was renamed the Public Safety Business Agency.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs Department administered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy, rights and culture, and multicultural affairs. Until 2012, it was part of the Communities Department. Within the Department, the Community and Personal Histories team helped people to trace their personal and family history, and could help people to…
The Education Department was responsible for administration of preschool to secondary school education. It was established in 1957 and abolished in 2004. The Department ran the Queensland School for the Deaf from 1957-1988. The Department was replaced by the Education and the Arts Department. With the change of name of the Secretary of Public Instruction…
The Labour and Tourism Department was the controlling agency for the Children’s Services Department between 1966 and 1968.
Queensland Health was previously known as the Department of Health. The name changed in 2012.
The Family Services Department was created from the former Family and Youth Services Department on 14 December 1987. The new department gained responsility for Intellectual Handicap Services. The department was responsible for juvenile justice facilities. It was amalgamated with the departments of Community Services and the Office of Ethnic Affairs to form the Department of…
The Health Department was established on 26 September 1963 when the Health and Home Affairs Department was abolished. The Health Department was responsible for the management and regulation of public sector health services to Queensland. Administration of mental health was one of the principal responsibilities of the Health Department.
The Home Secretary’s Office in Queensland was the new name given to the Colonial Secretary’s office on 6 August 1896. The Home Secretary administered all matters related to health, welfare, local governments and courts, police and prisons, aborigines, recreation, and other internal administrative functions. In 1935 it was renamed the Health and Home Affairs Department
The Colonial Secretary’s office in Queensland administered all matters not the responsibility of the Colonial Treasurer or the Attorney-General. The administrative functions of the Colonial Secretary included: Reform Schools, Insanity – asylums, Reception houses for the insane, Hospitals and charitable institutions, Public health, Medical establishments, including quarantine, vaccination, and lunatic asylums. On 6 August 1896,…
The Health and Home Affairs Department in Brisbane, was created in 1935. It replaced the Home Secretary’s Office. The department had administrative control over a number of internal services in Queensland including: Adoption, Children’s Services, Epileptic Home, Hospitals, Mental Institutions, State Children and Public Health. In 1963 the Home Affairs Department was abolished and a…
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