Human Services rebrand as part of Scott Morrison's 2019 administrative orders - The Canberra Times

The federal government's largest department will rebrand for the first time in its 15-year life as newly sworn Prime Minister Scott Morrison puts it at the centre of plans to overhaul the bureaucracy's dealings with the public. Services Australia is the new name for the 30,000-strong Human Services Department as Mr Morrison puts it in charge of whole-of-government service delivery, a role he has shifted from his own department. Federal government IT will also move into the mega-department's ambit in a signal the Coalition will rethink its troubled roll-out of new technology in delivering services. The Coalition revealed its restructure of the Australian Public Service after Mr Morrison named his new ministry and flagged he would reposition the Human Services Department's role inside the government. Human Services is rebranding for the first time since the department's creation under the Howard government in 2004 to oversee child support and disability employment services. Mr Morrison's focus on the agency since his re-election could bring the largest overhaul of its work since the Gillard government brought Medicare and Centrelink into its tent in 2011. Services Australia will retain responsibility for the two programs as it continues to design, deliver, and coordinate the nation's social security. However, Mr Morrison is charging the department, involved in some of the Coalition's most controversial IT and service delivery reforms during the previous term of government, with leading an overhaul of its dealings with the public. The Prime Minister has also drawn the department closer to his watch by appointing himself Public Service Minister and handing the ministry overseeing Services Australia to his ally Stuart Robert. Another of the government's other major employers, the Home Affairs Department, will expand its footprint again as it takes on migrant services from the Social Services and the Education departments. The Coalition's changes to its bureaucracy appear to have narrowed the focus of the Social Services Department in the redivision of roles, as it also hands responsibility for housing affordability to Treasury. The Jobs and Small Business Department, replacing the Employment Department in 2017, will undergo another name change as it becomes the Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business.

The federal government's largest department will rebrand for the first time in its 15-year life as newly sworn Prime Minister Scott Morrison puts it at the centre of plans to overhaul the bureaucracy's dealings with the public.

Services Australia is the new name for the 30,000-strong Human Services Department as Mr Morrison puts it in charge of whole-of-government service delivery, a role he has shifted from his own department.

Federal government IT will also move into the mega-department's ambit in a signal the Coalition will rethink its troubled roll-out of new technology in delivering services.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison with his new cabinet on Wednesday. Picture: Alex Ellinghausen.

The Coalition revealed its restructure of the Australian Public Service after Mr Morrison named his new ministry and flagged he would reposition the Human Services Department's role inside the government.

Human Services is rebranding for the first time since the department's creation under the Howard government in 2004 to oversee child support and disability employment services.

Mr Morrison's focus on the agency since his re-election could bring the largest overhaul of its work since the Gillard government brought Medicare and Centrelink into its tent in 2011.

Services Australia will retain responsibility for the two programs as it continues to design, deliver, and coordinate the nation's social security.

However, Mr Morrison is charging the department, involved in some of the Coalition's most controversial IT and service delivery reforms during the previous term of government, with leading an overhaul of its dealings with the public.

The Prime Minister has also drawn the department closer to his watch by appointing himself Public Service Minister and handing the ministry overseeing Services Australia to his ally Stuart Robert.

Another of the government's other major employers, the Home Affairs Department, will expand its footprint again as it takes on migrant services from the Social Services and the Education departments.

The Coalition's changes to its bureaucracy appear to have narrowed the focus of the Social Services Department in the redivision of roles, as it also hands responsibility for housing affordability to Treasury.

The Jobs and Small Business Department, replacing the Employment Department in 2017, will undergo another name change as it becomes the Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business.

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