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Max Moore-Wilton
Maxwell William Moore-Wilton (born 27 January 1943) is an Australian corporate executive and former public servant, colloquially known as "Max the Axe". Early career Moore-Wilton served as a senior executive in the Trade and Primary Industries portfolios, General Manager of the Australian Wheat Board, Director-General of the NSW Department of Transport, and the Chief Executive of the Maritime Services Board and the Roads & Traffic Authority, manager of Australian National Line and at the Australian Securities Exchange. Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Moore-Wilton was appointed Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet with effect from 13 May 1996, shortly after John Howard became Prime Minister. He immediately implemented cuts of more than 11,000 staff, including six department heads and proceeded to aggressively outsource various government services. He also oversaw the passing of the , which gave the Prime Minister the power to ...
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Secretary Of The Department Of The Prime Minister And Cabinet (Australia)
The secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is the public service head of Australia's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the most senior public servant in the administration of Government in Australia. The secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet should not be confused with the Cabinet secretary, a ministerial position within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio responsible for assisting the prime minister in the procedural and operational matters of the Cabinet of Australia. The secretary of the DPMC is Australia’s highest-paid bureaucrat, earning more than $914,000, as of 2019. List of secretaries Below is the list of secretaries, since the first appointment was made on 1 January 1912. ;Notes : Sir Alan Carmody died suddenly of coronary vascular disease on 12 April 1978; during the term of his appointment. Historical arrangements Within days of John Gorton becoming Prime Minister ...
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Government Of Australia
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or simply as the federal government, is the national Executive (government), executive government of Australia, a federalism, federal Parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The executive consists of the Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister, Cabinet of Australia, cabinet ministers and other ministers that currently have the support of a majority of the members of the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives (the lower house) and also includes the Australian Government#Departments, departments and other List of Australian Government entities, executive bodies that ministers oversee. The Albanese government, current executive government consists of Anthony Albanese and other ministers of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), in office since the 2022 Australian federal election, 2022 federal election. The Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister is the Head of gove ...
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Due Process
Due process of law is application by the state of all legal rules and principles pertaining to a case so all legal rights that are owed to a person are respected. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual person from it. When a government harms a person without following the exact course of the law, this constitutes a due process violation, which offends the rule of law. Due process has also been frequently interpreted as limiting laws and legal proceedings (see substantive due process) so that judges, instead of legislators, may define and guarantee fundamental fairness, justice, and liberty. That interpretation has proven controversial. Analogous to the concepts of natural justice and procedural justice used in various other jurisdictions, the interpretation of due process is sometimes expressed as a command that the government must not be unfair to the people or abuse them physically or mentally. The term is not used in contemporary ...
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Unfair Dismissal
In labour law, unfair dismissal is an act of employment termination made without good reason or contrary to the country's specific legislation. Situation per country Australia Australia has long-standing protection for employees in relation to dismissal. Most of that protection was however confined in one of two ways. An employer could not dismiss an employee for a prohibited reason, most typically membership of a union.Such a''Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act'' 1904 (Cth)s9(1). An individual however could not challenge their own dismissal as being unfair and instead had to rely upon a union challenging the fairness of the dismissal. This remedy however was generally only available in the state tribunals. A similar definition existed at the Commonwealth level, however it was considerably limited by the requirement under the Constitution to establish an inter-state dispute. The ability for an individual to seek relief from unfair dismissal was first established in a ...
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PM (ABC Radio)
''PM'' is one of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship current affairs radio programs. It is also one of Australia's longest-running productions, having been first aired on 7 July 1969. It is the sister program to '' AM''. As of 2025 it is hosted by Samantha Donovan and broadcast on both Radio National and ABC Local Radio. History and timeslots ''PM'' was first broadcast in 1969 for what were then ABC Radio 1 and Radio 3 (now ABC Local Radio). Launched on 7 July 1969, two years after its sister program ''AM'', with both names created by ABC general manager Talbot Duckmanton. It originally aired every weekday at 6:10 pm (after the 6:00 pm news bulletin), becoming a popular afternoon radio current affairs program. ''PM'' was later introduced to ABC Radio 2 (now ABC Radio National) with a new early edition at 5:10 pm after the 5:00 pm news. ''PM'' was originally 20 minutes long before expansion to 50 minutes in 1987. In 2018 it reduced to a 25 mi ...
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Eureka Street (magazine)
''Eureka Street'' is an Australian magazine concerned with public affairs, arts, and theology. Founded in 1991, the magazine was published in print format for 15 years before becoming an online-only magazine in 2006. The magazine is part of Jesuit Communications, the communications arm of the Australian Jesuit Province. However, the magazine has a tradition of being strongly secular and inclusive. Morag Fraser was editor of Eureka Street from 1991 till 2003. Tim Kroenert held the position until early 2020, when David Halliday became editor, alongside editorial consultant Andrew Hamilton. Writers Writers published in the magazine have included Margaret Simons, Peter Roebuck, Brett McBean, Frank Brennan, Gregory O'Kelly, Clive Hamilton Clive Charles Hamilton Order of Australia, AM FRSA (born 12 March 1953) is an Australian public intellectual currently serving as Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Ch ...
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John Moore (Australian Politician)
John Colinton Moore, (16 November 1936 – 22 January 2025) was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the House of Representatives for over 25 years, serving between 1975 and 2001, and was a minister in the Fraser and Howard governments. Background Moore was born in Rockhampton, Queensland on 16 November 1936. He was raised on a cattle station west of Bowen. His early education was through the Australian correspondence system used for isolated families. He finished his secondary education at The Armidale School, an Anglican boarding school for boys, before entering the University of Queensland and graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce with additional study in Accounting. Early career Before he entered politics, Moore had a career as a businessman and stock broker. He spent four years (1960–1963) with A.R. Walker & Co. before forming his own brokerage (John Moore & Company) in 1964. He was a member of the Brisbane Stock Exchange from 1961 until 1974. He g ...
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Minister For Defence (Australia)
The Minister for Defence is the minister of state of the Commonwealth of Australia charged with overseeing the organisation, implementation, and formulation of strategic policy in defence and military matters as the head of the Department of Defence. The Minister for Defence is responsible for the Australian Defence Organisation and the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The current Defence minister is Richard Marles, who is also concurrently serving as deputy prime minister of Australia, having been selected by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in May 2022 following the 2022 Australian federal election. As the Minister for Defence is responsible for the management of Australia's defence and military forces and the portfolio's accountability to the Parliament, the secretary of Defence is required under section 63(1) of the ''Public Service Act 1999'' and the ''Requirements for Annual Reports'' from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit to submit a report to ...
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Department Of Defence (Australia)
The Department of Defence, also known simply as Defence, is a Government department, department of the Government of Australia, Australian Government that is responsible for administering the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and its related entities, and is charged with the defence of Australia and its national interests. Along with the ADF, it forms part of the larger Australian Defence Organisation (ADO) and is accountable to the Parliament of Australia, on behalf of the Australian people, for the efficiency and effectiveness with which it carries out government policy. The executive head of the department, who leads it on a day-to-day basis, independent of a change of government, is the Departmental secretary, Secretary of the Department of Defence (SECDEF), currently Greg Moriarty. SECDEF reports to the Minister for Defence (Australia), Minister for Defence, Richard Marles. History Australia has had at least one defence-related government department since Federation of Austr ...
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Departmental Secretary
In Australia, a departmental secretary is the most senior public servant of an Australian Government or state government department. They are typically responsible for the day-to-day actions of a department. Role A departmental secretary is in theory, 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 government minister that oversees the Commonwealth 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 executive of the department; the position is equivalent to the permanent secretary of a government department in th ...
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Paul Barratt
Paul Hunter Barratt (19 March 1944 – 3 October 2021) was a senior Australian public servant, policymaker and peace activist. He was Chairman of Australia21, Chairman of UNE Foundation, and President and co-founder of Australians for War Powers Reform. Background and early life Paul Barratt was born in 1944 and two years later his family moved to Armidale, when his father was offered a position with the University of New England. He attended the Armidale Demonstration School between 1949 and 1955 and sat his New South Wales Leaving Certificate at The Armidale School in 1960. In 1961 he began his degree at the University of New England, living in Wright College and graduating with an honours degree in physics. Career Barratt joined the Commonwealth Public Sector in the Department of Defence in 1966. Between 1974 and 1985, Barratt was a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Trade and accompanied Prime Minister Bob Hawke on his February 1984 visit to China. Between 1992 and 1 ...
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Monash University
Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a number of campuses, four of which are in Victoria (Monash University, Clayton campus, Clayton, Monash University, Caulfield campus, Caulfield, Monash University, Peninsula campus, Peninsula, and Monash University, Parkville Campus, Parkville), one in Monash University Malaysia Campus, Malaysia and another one in Indonesia. Monash also owns landed property, land (3.6 hectares) in Notting Hill, Victoria, Notting Hill, opposite its Clayton campus. Monash has a research and teaching centre in Monash University, Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, a graduate research school in IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India and graduate schools in Southeast University-Monash University Joint Graduate School, Suzhou, China and T ...
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