Stephen Skehill is an Australian lawyer and public servant. Between 1994 and 1998 he was

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of the

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Attorney-General's Department. He is currently ethics adviser to the

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Life and career

Skehill first joined the

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in 1970, in the

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. Between 1970 and 1984, he worked in a range of agencies including the

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, the Trade Practices Commission and the

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. 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

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. In 2011, he was engaged by the

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to lead a review of small and medium agencies in the Attorney-General's portfolio. In response to the review, which came to be known as the Skehill Review, federal courts adopted a comprehensive shared services model and some functions were merged. In 2008, Skehill was appointed ethics and integrity advisor to the ACT Legislative Assembly, a new role. In 2014 in the role, Skehill recommended a register and code of ethics for lobbyists in the ACT. He has also been available part-time to provide ethics and integrity advice to MLAs.

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