List of Australian federal courts and tribunals

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[edit]

Sitting boards, commissions, courts, and tribunals[edit]

Sitting boards[edit]

Sitting councils[edit]

Sitting commissions[edit]

Sitting courts[edit]

Sitting tribunals[edit]

Abolished boards, courts and tribunals[edit]

Abolished boards[edit]

Abolished commissions[edit]

Abolished courts[edit]

Abolished tribunals[edit]

Notes[edit]

  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.

See also[edit]