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Australian Government Entry Point
This site provides links to all of the Australian Government Department and Agency Internet servers.

The ‘your Health’ website is an engagement and consultation tool to enable Australians to provide their views to the Australian Government about options to improve the health system (which exists for your health.)

You can use the site to find out about reform suggestions and to provide comment and feedback to the Government about your own health experiences and your ideas. Your contribution will then help the Government to make decisions in the future about how to improve the system.

This website is operated by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations provides information about Australian Government education, training, workplace relations and youth affairs services and policies in Australia.

Office of Early Childhood Education and Child Care
The Office of Early Childhood Education and Child Care is responsible for delivering the Government’s key commitments on early childhood education and child care, as well as guiding major national policy reform.

Department of Families and Housing. Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) is the Australian Government's principal source of advice on social policy and is responsible for about a quarter of the government's budgetary outlays. FaHCSIA works in partnership with other government and non-government organisations in the management of a diverse range of programs and services designed to support and improve the lives of Australians.

Family Assistance Office
The Family Assistance Office administers the new Child Care Benefit, the Child Care Tax Rebate and Family Tax Benefit payments. It has been set up in Centrelink, Medicare offices, and Australian Tax Office access and enquiry sites to deliver payments and improve services for families.

Department of Human Services
The Human Services Portfolio is about people and the services we may need at different stages of our lives. It consists of the Portfolio Department of Human Services—including the Child Support Agency and CRS Australia—and the Human Services agencies, Centrelink, Medicare Australia, Australian Hearing and the HSA Group.Together the Portfolio Department and the Human Services agencies work to improve government social and health-related services to all Australians.

Centrelink
Centrelink provides service to people who obtain information or assistance from a range of Australian Government programs.

Child Support Agency
CSA's role is to support separated parents to transfer payments for the benefit of their children. CSA's aim is to work with all areas of the government, community and private industry service providers to provide the best possible support to all our customers. The CSA has around 1.5 million customers and transfers child support payments for more than 1.1 million children.

Medicare Australia
Medicare Australia exists to support the delivery of quality health and child care to Australian residents by providing the highest quality benefit payment services and private health insurance services, and ensuring that all benefit payments are correctly made for services properly rendered.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's official statistical organisation. They assist and encourage informed decision making, research and discussion within governments and the community, by providing a high quality, objective and responsive national statistical service. This site has information about the ABS, the main statistical features of many current publications, and other summary statistics.