Ron Brown is a retired senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the

Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs The Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs was an Australian government department that existed between July 1987 and March 1993. Scope Information about the department's functions and/or government funding al ...

between 1987 and 1990 under the Hawke government.

Career

Ron Brown was the State Director of Social Security in the Northern Territory, Tasmania, South Australia and New South Wales between 1977 and 1985, and then Executive Director at the

Special Broadcasting Service The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster. About 80 percent of funding for the company is derived from the Australian Government. SBS operates six TV channels ( SBS, SBS Viceland, SBS World ...

(SBS) between 1985 and 1987. In May 1987, Brown was appointed

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of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (later Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs). Brown left the Australian Public Service shortly after the 1990 federal election, thought to have been sacked by Prime Minister Bob Hawke, perhaps due to his not being sufficiently responsive to certain ethnic communities, or perhaps as an effort to remove Brown's Deputy Secretary, Tony Harris.

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