Australian Organisations Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Updated 8 October, 2007

• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA)
• ASTEC: Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council - wound up by Act of Parliament in June 1998. The functions were taken over by the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council.
• Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM)
• (AUMIS) Australian University Museums Information System (no longer active August 09)
• Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR).
• Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)
• Australian Academic & Research Network (AARNET) Pty Ltd
• Australian Academy of Science
• Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)
• The Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH)
• Australian Council for Educational Administration (ACEA) (no longer active August 09)
• Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
• Australian Digital Alliance (ADA)
• AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
• Government Online Directory.  Structure, organisations and key people.
• Australian Commonwealth Government Entry Point(with links to portfolios, media releases, people/functions and publications, by AusInfo, National Library of Australia, Office of Government Information Technology) (AU)
• Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
  • Senate Committees
    • Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee
    • Senate Information Technologies Committee
• Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Copyright Law Review Committee
• Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.
  • Cultural Ministers Council | New Technologies Working Party
  • Information Policy Advisory Council - disbanded following the establishment of the National Office for the Information Economy. IPAC's functions will be subsumed into the NOIE Board.
  • Intellectual Property Branch
  • National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE)
    • National Electronic Authentication Council (NEAC)
    • GovernmentOnline  formed (as OGO) in October 1998. OGO was the result of bringing together all previously existing Commonwealth IT-policy units, including the Office’s direct predecessor, the Office for Government Information Technology (OGIT)
    • (no longer active August 09)
• Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 
  • Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy (Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs - 1998)
  • Off-Shore Employment Links for Australian Professionals - OSELAP
  • Australian Research Council (ARC) National Competitive Grant Programs.
  • Coordination Committee on Science and Technology (CCST) - comprising representatives of departments and agencies with interest in or responsibility for science, technology and innovation matters.
  • Co-operative Multimedia Centres (CMC) Programme
  • Education Network Australia (EdNA)
  • Higher Education Summary
  • Open Learning Australia (OLA) -  incorporates PAGE: Professional and Graduate Education.
  • Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC)
  • Science Portal
• Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources.
  • Information Industries Taskforce. (The Australian Government is seeking to develop a new National Information Industries Strategy. For the purposes of the Taskforce, "Information Industries" includes developers, manufacturers and/or suppliers of computing, communications and multimedia products and services.)
  • Industry Research and Development Board. - an independent statutory body that provides advice to government on national industry-based R&D strategies and priorities, and administers specific Federal Government programs in support of industry-based innovation which are delivered through AusIndustry.
  • New Economy Branch
  • (no longer active August 09)
• Australian Higher Education Industrial Association (AHEIA)
• Australian Information Industry Association
• Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy The Key Centre is located in the Faculty of Humanities at Griffith University and is jointly managed by the Queensland University of Technology and The University of Queensland. (AU) (no longer active August 09)
• AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL PARTIES
• Australian Democrats
• The Australian Greens
• Australian Labor Party
• Liberal Party of Australia
• National Party of Australia
• Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party
• Australian Publishers Association (APA)
• Australian Quality Council [In February 2002 Standards Australia International [SAI] formally acquired a range of products and services previously owned by the Australian Quality Council [AQC] see Business Excellence Australia (no longer active August 09)
• Australian Research Council (ARC)
• Australian Society for Educational Technology (no longer active August 09)
• Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AVCC) - see Universities Australia (from 22 May 2007)
• Business Excellence Australia (no longer active August 09)
• Business/Higher Education Round Table (BHERT)
• Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
  • Carrick Communiqué: a monthly publication to keep you updated on all Carrick activities, programs and initiatives. (no longer active August 09)
• CAUDIT (Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology)
• CIRCIT - Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies. (no longer active August 09)
• The Co-op Online Bookshop
• Copyright Agency Limited. (CAL)
• Council for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (CHASS)
• Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA)
• Directory of Australian University Committees/Councils of Deans/Chairs/Heads of Departments
• Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. (EFA)
• Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS)
• Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)
• IDP Education Australia (IDP)
• Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc (ISAA)
• Internet Industry Association
• Internet Society of Australia : A Chapter of the Internet Society
• La Trobe University Online Media Program Australian social and policy research in the area of telecommunications.
• National Academies Forum - the peak organisation for the four Australian learned academies(AU)
• National Scholarly Communications Forum  (no longer active August 09)
• The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU)
• National Union of Students.
• NCODE - Flexible Learning Australasia  (no longer active August 09)
• Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)
• Open Learning Australia (OLA)
• Professional and Graduate Education (PAGE) Consortium. (A consortium of universities which was formed to provide practitioners in a wide range of professions with access to quality academic programs designed to meet their professional requirements.) (AU) (no longer active August 09)
• UniServe Australia Initiative of CAUT (Committee for the Advancement of University Teaching. (Network is to enhance the quality of university teaching in Australian institutions, by maintaining and publishing relevant, up to date and innovative material.) (AU) (no longer active August 09)
• Universities Australia (from 22 May 2007)
  • AVCC databases - Lists of committees, contact lists, publications, etc.
• VALA - Victorian Association for Library Automation Inc. (AU)