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Tony Blunn
Anthony Stuart "Tony" Blunn (born 1936) is a retired Australian senior public servant. Life and career Tony Blunn was born in 1936. He joined the Australian Public Service at the age of 21, after four years with a firm of solicitors in Melbourne. In 1979 Blunn took a position in the Department of Finance, in an area linked with works, mainland Territories, defence and other areas. He moved to the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs in 1980, and was appointed to his first permanent Secretary role in 1981 as head of the Department of the Capital Territory. Blunn was appointed Secretary of the Attorney General's Department in 1998, replacing Stephen Skehill who resigned from the role. Blunn retired from the public service in December 1999. In 2000 Blunn was appointed chairman of the company in charge of managing Bruce Stadium Canberra Stadium (GIO Stadium for commercial reasons) is a facility primarily used for rugby league and rugby union games, located ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departmental Secretary
In Australia, a departmental secretary is the most senior Civil service, public servant of an Australian Government or States and territories of Australia, state government department. They are typically responsible for the day-to-day actions of a department. Role A departmental secretary is a non-political, non-elected public servant head (and "responsible officer") of government departments, who generally holds their position for a number of years. A departmental secretary works closely with the elected Minister (government), government minister that oversees the Commonwealth List of Australian Commonwealth Government entities, department or state government department in order to bring about policy and program initiatives that the government of day was elected to achieve. A departmental secretary works with other departments and agencies to ensure the delivery of services and programs within the nominated area of responsibility. The secretary is also known as the chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rae Taylor
Rae Martin Taylor (born 1935) is a retired senior Australian public servant and policymaker. Education Taylor is a University of Sydney graduate, with a bachelor's degree in Economics (with honours). Career Rae Taylor joined the Commonwealth Public Service at the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics in 1956. He subsequently was employed in the Department of Primary Industry, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Department of Territories and the Department of Housing. In 1969 Taylor joined the Department of Shipping and Transport, becoming a Deputy Secretary of the Department in 1975. Taylor was appointed to his first Secretary role in December 1978, becoming head of the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs. In May 1982, Taylor was shifted to a position as head of the Department of Transport and Construction. After the Hawke government was elected in the 1983 federal election, Taylor was retained in only an acting role overseeing Commonwealth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1936 Births
Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII. * January 28 – Britain's King George V state funeral takes place in London and Windsor. He is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympics, IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10–February 19, 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Inci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cornall
Robert John Cornall is a retired Australian senior public servant, he was head of the Attorney-General's Department between 2000 and 2008. Early life Robert Cornall was born in Melbourne. He attended Wesley College, then studied for a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1968. Public service career In January 1968, Cornall took up a position in the lawfirm Oswald Burt & Co (later Middeltons Oswald Burt, Solicitors). He was promoted to Partner of the firm in July 1972. Cornall left Middeltons Oswald Burt, Solicitors in 1987 and moved to a position as Executive Director and Secretary of the not-for-profit member-based Law Institute of Victoria. Between December 1995 and December 1999, Cornall was the Managing Director of Victoria Legal Aid. Cornall was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department in 2000. In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the Attorney-General's Department was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Skehill
Stephen Skehill is an Australian lawyer and public servant. Between 1994 and 1998 he was Secretary of the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department. He is currently ethics adviser to the ACT Legislative Assembly. Life and career Skehill first joined the Australian Public Service in 1970, in the Department of Labour and National Service. Between 1970 and 1984, he worked in a range of agencies including the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs, the Trade Practices Commission and the Department of Social Security. He was appointed a Deputy Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department in 1989, having previously been the First Assistant Secretary of Corporate Services for the Department. In 1994, he became Secretary of the Department, replacing Alan Rose. In 2011, he was engaged by the Department of Finance and Deregulation The Australian Department of Finance and Deregulation was a Federal Government department that existed between December 2007 and Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rosalky
David Marcus Rosalky (born 26 May 1946) is an academic and a retired senior Australian public servant. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University in Canberra. Background and early life David Rosalky was born in Sydney on 26 May 1946. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney University. Career Rosalky began his Australian Public Service career in the Department of Defence. From 1978 to 1980, Rosalky was a senior advisor in the economic division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Between 1980 and 1983, Rosalky was Senior Private Secretary to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Media reported that their sources told them Rosalky had not applied for his new position but had rather been asked to take it. In September 1992 Rosalky was appointed ACT Under-Treasurer. In July 1994 he was appointed Secretary of the ACT Government Chief Minister's Department. Rosalky was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Volker
Derek Volker, (born 1939) is a retired senior Australian public servant. Life and career Born in 1939, Volker was educated at Toowoomba State High School and the University of Queensland. Volker's early Australian Public Service career was in the Department of Labour and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser appointed Volker as Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs in 1981, with the mandate to clean up the administration of the department. In 1986, Prime Minister Bob Hawke transferred Volker to a position as Secretary the Department of Social Security (DSS). In his time at DSS, Volker had to deal with the pressures of the recession and its impact on Social Security offices, including long queues and increasing tension. Prime Minister Paul Keating announced Volker's transfer from the Department of Social Security to the Department of Employment, Education and Training in March 1993. In 1996, Volker was one of six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Hamilton (public Servant)
Stuart Anthony Hamilton (born 31 March 1950) is a retired Australian senior public servant and CEO. Early life Stuart Hamilton was born in 1950 in Hobart, Tasmania, the son of Murray and Yvonne Hamilton. He attended the University of Tasmania gaining a First Class Honours degree in Arts, majoring in English Language and Literature. He then attended Magdalen College Oxford University as the Tasmanian Rhodes Scholar for 1971, where he met and married Suzanne Westrop, a classicist studying at St Hilda’s College. They have two children, Richard (b. 1984) and Lucy (b. 1987). He subsequently attended the Australian National University, gaining a Bachelor of Economics in 1980. Career Hamilton joined the Australian public service in 1975. He worked in several departments, notably the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, becoming Deputy Secretary there in 1987. He was closely involved in developing the major changes to ministerial and departmental arrangements announced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Tanzer
Noel John Tanzer, (born 16 November 1931) is a retired senior Australian public servant and policymaker. Life and career Noel Tanzer was born on 16 November 1931. Tanzer began his career in the Commonwealth Public Service in 1949, serving for 17 years in Brisbane. In 1980 and 1981 he was serving as a senior assistant commissioner in the management systems and efficiency division of the Public Service Board. Tanzer was appointed Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs in 1986. Immediately prior to his Veterans' Affairs appointment, he had been a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Social Security. He moved to the Department of Administrative Services in 1989. His task was to have the department operate in accordance with commercial principles. He also aimed to improve departmental services to customers. He restructured 17 separate departmental units into four programs, and offered redundancy packages to downsize the department, reducing staffing numbers by more th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Miller (public Servant)
Geoffrey Lee Miller (26 January 194210 October 2014) was a senior Australian public servant. Life and career Geoff Miller was born in Grafton, New South Wales on 26 January 1942. For high school, he attended Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School in Tamworth, New South Wales. His university studies were at the University of New England where he completed a degree in agricultural economics with first class honours. He began his career in a state agricultural department, before shifting to work for CSR Limited. In 1986, Miller was appointed Secretary of the Department of Primary Industry. In July 1987 he became Associate Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, but was again appointed as a Secretary in 1988, this time of the Department of Primary Industries and Energy The Department of Primary Industries and Energy was an Australian government department that existed between July 1987 and October 1998. Scope Information about the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Galvin (public Servant)
Patrick John Galvin (born 17 March 1933) is a retired senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Arts, Heritage and Environment between 1984 and 1987. Life and career Galvin was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 17 March 1933. His father, also called Pat Galvin, was an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives. Galvin joined the Australian Public Service in 1950, with a personnel cadetship that enabled him to obtain an arts degree from the University of Adelaide. Whilst working in the Department of External Territories, Galvin served in Papua New Guinea. In 1982, Galvin was appointed as a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Home Affairs and Environment. He was appointed Secretary of the Department in July 1984, having acted in the role since February that year. A departmental reshuffle in December 1984 saw him transitioning to become Secretary of the Department of Arts, Heritage and Environment. Galvin retired fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
