Bruce MacDonald is a former senior Australian public servant best known for his time as

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of the

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Biography

From 1971 to 1977, MacDonald was Secretary of the Public Service Board. In 1983, he was appointed as permanent head of the new

. In 1986, MacDonald was said to have been tipped by insiders for the position of

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, but media reported that opposition was strong to any appointment of a bureaucrat to the position, and MacDonald stayed in his Secretary position. MacDonald was moved in 1987 instead for a senior position in the Data Protection Agency. In May 1988, MacDonald was appointed special consultant to the

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References

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