Department of Trade and Customs (Australia)

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Department of Trade and Customs
Department overview
Formed1 January 1901 [1]
Dissolved11 January 1956 [1]
Superseding agency
Jurisdiction Commonwealth of Australia

The Department of Trade and Customs was an Australian government department that existed between 1901 and 1956. It was one of the inaugural government departments of Australia established at federation.

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History

The Department was one of the first seven Commonwealth Government departments to be established in the Federation year, 1901. [2] The first head of the department was Harry Wollaston, appointed in 1901. [3] In that first year, Wollaston and Charles Kingston worked closely together in drafting legislation and the first Commonwealth customs tariff. [3]

Sir Harry Newton Phillips Wollaston was a senior Australian public servant. He was the first Comptroller-General of the Department of Trade and Customs, from 1901 to his retirement in 1911.

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Charles Cameron Kingston was an Australian politician. He was an early radical liberal Premier of South Australia serving from 1893 to 1899 with the support of Labor led by John McPherson from 1893 and Lee Batchelor from 1897 in the House of Assembly, winning the 1893, 1896 and 1899 colonial elections against the conservatives. He was a leading proponent of and contributed extensively on the Federation of Australia and was elected to the federal House of Representatives with the most votes amongst the seven elected in the single statewide Division of South Australia at the 1901 election, serving under the Protectionist Party, going on to represent the Division of Adelaide at the 1903 election.

In 1956, the department was abolished and most of its functions were split between the Department of Customs and Excise and the Department of Trade. [4]

The Department of Customs and Excise was an Australian government department that existed between January 1956 and March 1975.

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.

By 1906 the Department was responsible for: [1]

Structure

The Department was a Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Trade and Customs. [1]

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The head of the Department was the Comptroller-General, initially Harry Wollaston, [3] and later: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 CA 10: Department of Trade and Customs, Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 27 December 2013
  2. ↑ Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, History of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, archived from the original on 12 December 2013
  3. 1 2 3 McDonald, D.I. (1990), "Wollaston, Sir Harry Newton Phillips (1846–1921)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, archived from the original on 6 November 2013
  4. ↑ Trade and customs: Administrative history, National Archives of Australia, archived from the original on 25 April 2013
  5. ↑ McDonald, D.I., "Lockyer, Sir Nicholas Colston (1855–1933)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, archived from the original on 6 November 2013
  6. ↑ CP 171: Stephen MILLS CMG, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 23 January 2014
  7. ↑ CP 195: Robert McKeeman OAKLEY CBE, VD, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 23 January 2014
  8. ↑ "Customs head retiring: Mr. E. Abbott's 50 years' service". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 June 1944. Archived from the original on 23 January 2014.
  9. ↑ CP 264: Edwin ABBOTT CBE, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 23 January 2014
  10. ↑ CP 245: Sir Francis Anthony MEERE OBE, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 23 January 2014


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