The Department of the Treasury, also known as the Treasury, is the national treasury and financial department of the federal government of Australia. The treasury is responsible for executing economic and fiscal policy, market regulation and the delivery of the federal budget with the department overseeing 16 agencies. The Treasury is one of only two departments that have existed continuously since Federation in 1901, the other being the Department of the Attorney-General.
- Country
- Australia
- Headquarters
- Canberra
- Inception
- January 1901, December 7, 1976, 1901
- Website
- http://www.treasury.gov.au/