32-767: The Australian Space Agency is an agency of the Australian Government responsible for the development of Australia's commercial aerospace industry , coordinating domestic space activities, identifying opportunities and facilitating international engagement that includes Australian stakeholders. Its headquarters, opened in February 2020, are located in Lot Fourteen in Adelaide , the capital of South Australia . The Australian Space Discovery Centre , which features exhibits and public information sessions,
64-661: A rover that will be sent to the moon by 2026. In March 2022, the ASA and the University of Adelaide stated that they would collaborate on Mars exploration. The agency has, beginning 2023, a working relationship with Space Centre Australia , which aims to develop launch facilities in Cape York Peninsula . In November 2022 the agency partnered with Fugro to open the Fugro SpAARC spacecraft control centre. SpAARC
96-514: A seat in the federal cabinet and leading its respective portfolio area: There are 171 principal entities other than the cabinet departments. These government agencies are classified by the Australian Government Organisations Register as either a non-corporate Commonwealth entity, a corporate Commonwealth entity, or a Commonwealth company. On 18 September 2013 an Administrative Arrangements Order
128-648: A sovereign-owned agency, if not with sovereign launch facilities in the short term, was being made by think tanks such as Australian Strategic Policy Institute . On 25 September 2017, at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide , Senator Simon Birmingham announced that the Australian Government intended to create a national space agency following an expert reference group investigation led by Megan Clark , former chief executive of CSIRO . As part of
160-554: Is also located on site. As of 2008, Australia was the only OECD country without a space agency other than Iceland , with the preceding National Space Program and Australian Space Office (ASO) having been disbanded by the federal government in 1996. A government report from the Australian Senate Standing Committee on Economics noted that Australia was "missing out on opportunities" and recommended that an agency immediately be developed. In 2009,
192-580: Is located in Perth , Australia. The Australian Space Agency is located in the McEwin Building on Lot Fourteen , a technology hub in Adelaide city centre . The Australian Space Discovery Centre is co-located with the agency. A new sculpture by Sundari Carmody, entitled One: all that we can see , was unveiled in June 2022. This is a 4 m (13 ft)-wide steel tubular ring, with LED lighting at
224-607: Is regarded as the hospital's foundation day, although the first patients were only admitted in January or February of the following year. It was located in the Adelaide Park Lands on the north side of North Terrace, east of Frome Road . In 1856, around the time of the establishment of the Adelaide Botanic Garden to the east, a second building was completed on the site, and the original hospital
256-588: The Australian Government's 2018 budget announcement, AU$ 26 million in seed funding over four years from 2018 was included to establish the Australian Space Agency, with a further AU$ 15 million for international space investment starting from 2019. The budget was criticised for being inadequate by private Australian space companies including Delta-V and Gilmour Space Technologies , and space archaeologist Alice Gorman noted that low-budget attempts at starting an Australian space agency had failed in
288-682: The University of South Australia (established as South Australian School of Mines and Industries on that site in 1889). Its campus was also home to the University of Adelaide's Medical School and the Hanson Institute and SA Pathology . The old hospital's morgue still stands in the Botanic Gardens . The old RAH included an advanced burns unit , the Adult Burn Centre, led by John Greenwood , and in 2009 became
320-543: The federal parliament , appointed by the governor-general on the advice of the prime minister . As of December 2023, there are 1,334 government entities reportable to the Australian Government Organisations Register. This includes: Principal entities are Australian Government entities that are defined in the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2011 as either a: The Australian Government comprises 20 portfolio departments, each representing
352-569: The former Governor of South Australia . However, in 2009 the RAH name was retained after public opposition and at the former governor's request. The new RAH forms the largest part of Adelaide's emerging biomedical precinct called BioMed City . Other recently completed facilities in the precinct include the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), the University of Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building,
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#1732765744046384-912: The Space Policy Unit funded the Australian Space Research Program over three years. It led to an accessible Landsat satellite imagery archive and the development and testing of a scramjet launcher. On 16 September 2016, Andrea Boyd, an Australian working as a flight operations engineer for the International Space Station (ISS) in Cologne , Germany, delivered an address at the Global Access Partners Summit in Parliament House, Sydney , urging Australia to grasp
416-532: The University of South Australia's Health Innovation Building, and the state's Dental Hospital. SAHMRI is building a $ 300 million second facility due to be completed by 2022 to house the Australian Bragg Centre with Australia's first proton therapy unit. There are also plans for the Women's and Children's Hospital to be relocated to the precinct adjacent the RAH by 2024. The HMU, opened at
448-460: The agency is titled the Head. List of Australian Government entities [REDACTED] [REDACTED] This list of Australian Government entities includes ministerial departments, principal entities, secondary entities, and other entities, which are grouped into a number of areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by one or more government ministers who are members of
480-543: The commercial opportunities of the new space market and protect its national sovereignty by establishing a national space agency. In response, a taskforce was gathered, which led to the establishment of the Expert Reference Group, co-funded by the federal Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. Chaired by former head of CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark , it gathered recommendations from aerospace experts including Professor Russell Boyce, Professor Steven Freeland,
512-447: The domestic hot water system. Orientation of the buildings is optimised to minimise solar thermal loads, with extensive daylight penetration to reduce artificial lighting requirements. Rainwater and stormwater harvesting is used to offset potable water requirements, along with extensive use of water sensitive landscaping and a water efficient thermal plant. The new hospital was initially to be renamed Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Hospital after
544-662: The election of the Turnbull government , the Department of the Environment was renamed, with effect from 19 July 2016: Some departments were renamed, with effect from 20 December 2017: Following the election of the Morrison government , five departments were renamed, with effect from 29 May 2019: The number of departments were cut from 18 to 14, with effect from 1 February 2020: The new Albanese Government made
576-606: The following modifications and increased the number of departments to 16, with effect from 1 July 2022: Royal Adelaide Hospital The Royal Adelaide Hospital ( RAH ), colloquially known by its initials or pronounced as "the Rah", is South Australia 's largest hospital, owned by the state government as part of Australia's public health care system . The RAH provides tertiary health care services for South Australia and provides secondary care clinical services to residents of Adelaide 's central metropolitan area, which includes
608-532: The hospital, and all rooms are single patient suites with private bathroom facilities. There are 40 operating theatres, each measuring 65m . The building is technologically advanced, with a fleet of automated robotic vehicles to help move supplies, meals and equipment around the hospital, and a tailor-made patient electronic medical record . The hospital was designed to achieve a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to equivalent hospitals. A co-generation system uses waste heat from energy generators for
640-492: The inner suburbs. The original Adelaide Hospital was built in 1840 at the eastern end of North Terrace, Adelaide , with its first building superseded in 1856 and many alterations and additions over the following 175 years. It was prefixed by the "Royal" in 1939. In 2017 it was replaced by the new hospital, built at the western end of North Terrace . The new hospital is the most expensive building ever built in Australia and
672-549: The most expensive hospital ever built anywhere in the world, at US$ 2.44 billion in construction and equipment costs. The redevelopment on the site of the old RAH is known as Lot Fourteen . Colonel Light had originally envisaged the hospital in the Eastern parklands . On 15 July 1840 Lieutenant-Colonel George Gawler , then governor of South Australia , laid the foundation stone for the Adelaide Hospital, which
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#1732765744046704-424: The new Royal Adelaide Hospital is the most expensive hospital built in Australia, taking 1st place from the $ 2 billion Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth . The contractor was a joint venture of Hansen Yuncken and Leighton Contractors . The building was completed in 2017, and the move from the old hospital into the new site was completed over four days, 4–7 September. More than 6,000 staff are expected to work at
736-521: The new building in 2017, a phased move to the new premises took place, and the old site was designated Lot Fourteen , with various plans mooted regarding its redevelopment, including a space hub . The heritage buildings on the site are being kept. The new Royal Adelaide Hospital is located on a 10 hectares (25 acres) former railyards site within the Adelaide Park Lands . It is situated on the north side of North Terrace and west of Morphett Street . Starting construction in 2011, costing over A$ 2 billion,
768-546: The old RAH in 1985, is the state referral service for diving and hyperbaric medicine . The RAH is the second oldest diving and hyperbaric facility in Australia, and has been responsible for co-ordinating the Divers Emergency Service (DES), a telephone-based consultation service for diving-related matters within Australia, the Southern Pacific and Southeast Asia . The Royal Adelaide Hospital
800-598: The only burns unit to be verified by the American Burn Association outside of North America. The Royal Adelaide Hospital is the only provider of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in South Australia. Its Hyperbaric Medical Unit (HMU) opened in 1985. The principal treatment equipment as of 2013 was a pair of twin-lock, multi-place hyperbaric chambers . One of these chambers was the first rectangular steel chamber in Australia. After completion of
832-415: The past. On 14 May 2018, Senator Michaelia Cash officially announced the launch of the Australian Space Agency, identifying 1 July 2018 as the commencement date of the agency, with Megan Clark as the inaugural head of the agency for at least the first year. Prime Minister Scott Morrison later announced that Adelaide would become home to the Australian Space Agency. It would be located at Lot Fourteen ,
864-461: The site of the former Royal Adelaide Hospital , near the north-eastern corner of Adelaide city centre , in 2019. The agency opened its office on 19 February 2020. It aims to triple the size of the Australian space industry and create 20,000 new jobs by 2030. On 13 October 2021, the Australian Government announced an agreement with NASA whereby Australian researchers and scientists would build
896-491: The space administrator Dr David Williams and Dr Jason Held, founder of Saber Astronautics . It recommended the creation of a commercially focused Australian space agency and delivered its report to the Australian Government in August 2017. By 2017, Australian facilities were playing a critical role in 40 space missions of other nations, from deep space explorers, to Mars rovers, to astronomical space observatories. The case for
928-581: The top. The work was commissioned by Lot Fourteen, and is located in front of the Australian Space Discovery Centre. The Agency has six primary responsibilities: The Australian Space Agency differentiates itself from other national space programs in its stated focus on private development and businesses rather than state driven operations (contrasting with NASA and the European Space Agency ). The leader of
960-655: Was issued by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister Tony Abbott which replaced the previous Order of 14 September 2010 issued by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Gillard government . The Order formed or re-confirmed government departments, as follows: Following the appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister, three departments were renamed, with effect from 21 September 2015: Following
992-425: Was officially proclaimed "Royal" on 2 November 1939. At that time it was the largest general hospital in Australia, and included a modern dental hospital. It also functioned as a teaching hospital for medical and dental students, in conjunction with the University of Adelaide (a partnership which has continued to the present day). The old RAH stood adjacent to both the University of Adelaide (established 1874) and
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1024-616: Was used to house patients from the nearby Adelaide Lunatic Asylum , which was sold off to the Botanic Garden . In 1891 the hospital opened its first operating theatre , with rows of raised seating to enable students and others to witness operations. In 1899, only four years after x-ray was discovered, an x-ray facility was opened, by 1939 boasting an extensive X-ray department for the treatment of cancer. The hospital installed its first telephone system in 1901 and performed its first blood transfusion in 1925. The hospital
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