Standards and Guidelines: Names

In general only proper nouns are capitalised. A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place or organisation.

• Capitalise names when they are proper nouns e.g. organisation names, course names or geographical names.
• Names of diseases are not capitalised unless they contain a proper noun e.g. Alzheimer's disease or Lou Gehrig's disease. In these cases only the proper noun is capitalised.
• Names of government organisation and departments are capitalised.

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Use only current names of government departments and agencies as listed in the link below e.g. Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE)

Australian Government

Refer to the national government of Australia as the Australian Government. Use an initial capital for both words only when they occur together. Do not use the phrase ‘Commonwealth government’ to mean ‘Australian Government’. 

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Write brand names, names of products and services exactly as they are provided by companies and businesses e.g. iPhone, nbn or PowerPoint.

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