Welcome to the Cabinet Implementation Unit
“A new Implementation Unit is to be established to ensure that Commonwealth Government policies and services are being delivered to the community in a timely and responsive manner. The APS needs to be judged as much by its effectiveness in delivering Government programmes as it is by the robustness of its policy advice”. Peter Shergold, 23 May 2003.
The Cabinet Implementation Unit was established in October 2003. Since then the Unit, with the support of its stakeholders, has helped improve the way Australian Government departments and agencies go about developing and implementing the Australian Government’s decisions and report on the measures being implemented.
This site is designed to support this work. It aims to provide practical information to help public servants and those who work with them on the implementation of projects and the management of programmes. It may also help those who are not in a particular department or agency but have an interest in the way the Australian Government aims to improve the implementation and delivery of its initiatives and ongoing programmes.
How can this website help me?
- If you would like to learn more about the Cabinet Implementation Unit and how we fulfil our role, visit the section on The Cabinet Implementation Unit – who we are and what we do.
- If you are preparing new policy proposals, visit the Guidelines for New Policy Proposals.
- If you are developing implementation plans for new measures or programmes, visit the Implementation Plan Guidelines.
- If you are providing input to the Unit’s reports to the Government, please see Cabinet Implementation Unit reports.
- If you are interested in the way we are working with agencies to support better programme and project management visit Programme and Project Management.
Contact Us
Email: implementation@pmc.gov.au
Phone: 61 2 6271 5251
FAX: 61 2 6271 5252
Postal address:
PO Box 6500
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Australia

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