The Federal Courts Building in Melbourne

The following is a list of courts and tribunals of the Commonwealth of Australia:

List of boards, commissions, courts, and tribunals

Sitting boards, commissions, courts, and tribunals

Sitting boards

Sitting councils

Sitting commissions

Sitting courts

Sitting tribunals

Abolished boards, courts and tribunals

Abolished boards

Abolished commissions

Abolished courts

Abolished tribunals

Notes

  1. ^ New name of the Commonwealth Industrial Court from 1973 and jurisdiction given to the Federal Court of Australia in 1977.
  2. ^ Found to be unconstitutional in Lane v Morrison [2009] HCA 29 and replaced by the Military Court of Australia.
  3. ^ Functions divided between the Commonwealth Industrial Court and the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission as a result of the Boilermaker's case [1956] HCA 10, (1956) 94 CLR 254.
  4. ^ Given the judicial functions of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration as a result of the Boilermaker's case [1956] HCA 10, (1956) 94 CLR 254. Renamed the Australian Industrial Court in 1973.
  5. ^ Jurisdiction given to the Federal Court of Australia in 1977.
  6. ^ Separate court established in 1994 with Judges of the Federal Court of Australia and jurisdiction returned to the Federal Court of Australia in 1996; last judge retired in 2018
  7. ^ New name of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission from 1973 and renamed the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in 1988.
  8. ^ New name of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission from 1988 and replaced by Fair Work Australia in 2010.
  9. ^ Created as a result of the separation of judicial and arbitral functions as a result of the Boilermaker's case [1956] HCA 10, (1956) 94 CLR 254. Renamed Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in 1973
  10. ^ Replaced the Australian Industrial Relations Commission from 2010 and was renamed the Fair Work Commission in 2013.

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