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Context

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

Procedures

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

Tools

  • Checklists
  • Consultation topics
  • Examples
  • Flowcharts
  • Forms

Useful links

  • Cabinet Office circulars
  • 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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