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GOING COMMERCIAL IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES*
Author(s) -
Bashford Graham
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8500.1990.tb02264.x
Subject(s) - commonwealth , restructuring , public administration , government (linguistics) , service (business) , local government , business , administrative services organization , public relations , political science , finance , marketing , law , linguistics , philosophy
The Department of Administrative Services of the Commonwealth government (DAS) was created in its present form as part of the July 1987 restructuring of Commonwealth departments. Functions came from nine hitherto separate departments, with the bulk of them transferring from Local Government and Administrative Services, Housing and Construction, and Science. The number of affected staff totalled 18,600: they were previously organised into 19 quite distinct groups with very little in common except that they were providing a service of some kind, predominantly to Commonwealth organisations.