The Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships was established in 2015. It replaced the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs Department. The Department administered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy, rights and culture. Within the Department, the Community and Personal Histories team helped people to trace their personal and family history, and could help people to use records from Queensland Missions for research into personal, family and/or community history. In 2020 the Department was abolished, and re-established as a unit of the new Department of Seniors, Disability Services and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships.