institution
Defence Council
Advises and administers; it cannot independently authorise war or a major deployment.
ID
INST-DEFENCE-COUNCILAliases None declaredParent body: Federal Executive Council
- Type
- institution
- Jurisdiction
- federal defence administration
- Status
- active
- Head
- Minister for Defence
- Deputy
- Chief of Defence Staff
- Appointment
- INST-FEDERAL-EXECUTIVE-COUNCIL
- Dismissal
- INST-FEDERAL-EXECUTIVE-COUNCIL
- Reports to
- INST-PARLIAMENT
- Oversight
- House Defence Committee and Senate Defence Appropriations Committee
- Founded
- 1956