Footnotes

[1] Under the Administrative Arrangement Orders of October 1998, the then Department of Health and Family Services was split with some functions transferring to the new Department of Family and Community Services, and the remaining functions being bought together as the new Department of Health and Aged Care.

[2] Under the Administrative Arrangement Orders of October 1998, the Department of Family and Community Services was created out of the former Department of Social Security; the Family and Children’s Services and the Disability programs of the former Department of Health and Family Services; the Family Relationships area of the Attorney-General’s Department and the Child Support Agency, formerly part of the Australian Taxation Office.

[3] Commonwealth Ombudsman, Annual Report 1998-99, p.51.

[4] ibid., p.28.

[5] ibid.

[6] ibid., p.34.

[7] ibid., p.35.

[8] ibid., pp.28-35.