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Context

  • Definitions & explanations
  • Getting started
  • Writing papers
    • All papers
    • Appointment papers
    • Checklist for departments
    • Checklist for Ministers' offices
    • Getting a Minister to sign a paper
    • Good presentation
    • Legislative papers
    • Ministers' overseas travel papers
    • Papers on major policy issues: format options
    • Policy papers
    • Regulation papers
    • Security classifications
    • Submitting papers to Cabinet & committees
    • Writing tips

Procedures

  • Agendas
  • Appointments
  • Consultation
  • Executive Council and the Governor-General
  • International treaty-making
  • Legislation and regulations
  • Meetings
  • Ministers' overseas travel
  • Minutes
  • Papers

Tools

  • Checklists
  • Consultation topics
  • Examples
  • Flowcharts
  • Forms

Useful links

  • Cabinet Manual
  • Cabinet & Committees workspace
  • Policy Development Toolkit
  • Other links

Appointments papers

Appointments

  • which appointments should be considered by Cabinet?
  • the appointment process
  • balanced representation on government bodies
  • appointments of public servants to statutory boards
  • procedures for making appointments
  • letters of appointment

Paper content

Guidelines for drafting APH papers

Annotated example of an APH paper

Cabinet Appointments and Honours Committee (APH) terms of reference and membership

Consultation

Consultation on appointments

  • the Prime Minister 
  • coalition consultation
  • Ministerial and parliamentary colleagues
  • government caucuses
  • other parliamentary parties 

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