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Atlee Hunt
Atlee Arthur Hunt (7 November 186419 September 1935) was a senior official in the Australian Public Service. He was appointed Secretary of the Department of External Affairs in 1901, the year of Australia's Federation. Life and career Atlee Hunt was born in Fitzroy River, Queensland on 7 November 1864. He was educated at Balmain Public School and Sydney Grammar School. With alcoholic parents, he from an early age assumed effective responsibility for the household. Hunt began his career at the New South Wales Lands Department in 1879. To study for the Bar, Hunt resigned from the department in 1887. He was admitted to the Bar in 1892 and practiced until late 1900. It was at this time that he forged a rewarding bond with Edmund Barton. An early fruit was his role as assistant counsel in the Proudfoot case, arbitrated by Edmund Barton, in which Hunt obtained a remarkable 2 815 pounds in fees, three times the annual salary of the most senior minister in the New South Wales governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Home And Territories
The Department of Home and Territories was an Australian government department that existed between November 1916 and December 1928. Scope Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements and in the Department's annual reports. At its creation, the Department dealt with: *Astronomy *Census and Statistics *Elections *Franchise *Immigration and Emigration *Influx of Criminals *Lands and Surveys *Meteorology *Naturalization and Aliens *Pearl Shelling and Trepang fisheries in Australian waters beyond Territorial limits *People of races (other than the Aboriginal races in any State) for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws *Seat of government *Territories forming part of the Commonwealth Structure The Department was an Australian Public Service The Australian Public Service (APS) is the federal civil service of the Commonwealt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |