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Tony Ayers
Anthony Joseph "Tony" Ayers (16 September 193311 April 2016) was an Australian public servant. Life and career Ayers was born on 16 September 1933. His first job was teaching in a Victorian school. He later was an education officer in HM Prison Pentridge, Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. In 1967 Ayers moved to Canberra as Director of Welfare in the Department of the Interior (1939–1972), Department of the Interior. He was appointed to his first Departmental secretary, Secretary role in 1979 as head of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Ayers moved soon after, in 1981, to the Department of Social Security (Australia), Department of Social Security (DSS). During his time at DSS he served concurrently for three months as Acting Secretary of the Department of Community Services. Ayers moved to an appointment as Secretary of the Department of Community Services and Health when the Hawke government restructured the public service and created "super ministries" in 1987. Ayers' fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Taylor (public Servant)
John Casey Taylor (2 December 193014 May 2011) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs from 1981 to 1984. Life and career John Taylor was born on 2 December 1930 in Melbourne. He graduated from University of Melbourne with a degree in commerce. Taylor joined the Australian Public Service in 1952 as a clerk in the Victorian branch of the Postmaster-General's Department. Between 1974 and 1981, Taylor was a Commissioner on the Public Service Board. In 1981 he was appointed Secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. In 1984 Charles Perkins, succeeded him as Secretary in the department and he was appointed Australia's Consul-General in New York. Between 1988 and 1995 he was Commonwealth Auditor-General. As Auditor-General, Taylor said he saw his main achievements as providing a much more efficient and focused service to the Australian Parliament and people, and keeping up with (if not getting ahead of) contempora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Companions Of The Order Of Australia
The Order of Australia is the only Australian order of chivalry. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, to recognise Australian citizens and other persons for achievement, meritorious service, or for both. At that time, Companion of the Order of Australia was the highest of three grades of the order (companion, officer, member). On 24 May 1976, the grade of Knight or Dame of the Order was established, displacing companion as the highest grade. On 3 June 1986, the knight/dame grade was abolished, and companion was once again the highest grade. On 25 March 2014, the knight/dame grade was re-established, companion once again being relegated to the second highest grade of the order. The knight/dame grade was again abolished on 2 November 2015. Divisions The order has two divisions: general and military. In general, recipients who are not Australian citizens are appointed honorary companions, though there have been certain exceptions. (For example ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Births
Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – "Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls "Pakistan, Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Woods (public Servant)
Alan John Woods (30 March 1930 – 13 January 1990) was a senior Australian public servant. Life and career Woods was born in Woonona, New South Wales on 30 March 1930 to parents Oswald and Gladys May Woods. After attending St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill on a scholarship, he obtained a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney in 1955 while working as an executive trainee for Dunlop Rubber Australia Ltd. Woods began his Commonwealth Public Sector career at the Commonwealth Public Service Board in Sydney in 1955. He moved to Canberra in 1957, taking a research officer post in the Department of Territories. In December 1977, Woods was appointed Secretary of the Department of National Development (later abolished and replaced by the Department of National Development and Energy, and then the Department of Resources and Energy). Woods was appointed Secretary of the Department of Defence in 1986, but was replaced in a reshuffle of department heads in mid-19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Rose (public Servant)
Alan Douglas Rose (born 3 May 1944) is a former senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department between 1989 and 1994. Life and career Alan Rose was born in Brisbane on 3 May 1944. He was educated at state schools: Rainworth Primary School and Indooroopilly High School. He later attended the University of Queensland, where he earned a BA in 1966 and an LLB(Hons) in 1969, and the London School of Economics, where he earned an LLM in 1979. From 1986 to 1987, Rose was Secretary of the Department of Community Services. In the 1987 public service restructure, when all Australian Government departments were reorganised into 16 "super-ministries", Rose was named Associate Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department. He was promoted to become the Department's Secretary in 1989. In May 1994, Rose left his Secretary role and was appointed President of the Australian Law Reform Commission. Rose joined law firm HWL Ebsworth HWL Ebsw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Hamilton (public Servant)
Robert Stuart Hamilton, CM, Hon. LL.D, A.R.C.T. (September 28, 1929 – January 1, 2017) was an award-winning Canadian accompanist, vocal coach, and opera producer based in Toronto. He was a well-known advocate of post-Baroque French opera. He was recognized nationally for his work as the longtime quiz master for CBC Radio's '' Saturday Afternoon at the Opera'', he taught opera repertoire and diction at the University of Toronto. As one of Canada's top vocal coaches for over 65 years, he has inspired and coached generations of singers. As a piano accompanist, he had performed alongside internationally celebrated artists such as: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Mary Lou Fallis, Maureen Forrester, Elizabeth Benson Guy, Ben Heppner, Rosemarie Landry, Richard Margison, Dustin Lee Hiles, Stuart Howe, Lois Marshall, Roxolana Roslak, and Mary Simmons. Life and career Early life in Regina Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, in the city's General Hospital, Hamilton grew up in a house at 2325 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard McKay
Bernard Vincent "Bernie" McKay (born 1939 or 1940) is a former senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Health between 1984 and 1987. Life and career McKay was born in 1939 or 1940. From 1972 to 1974, McKay was Assistant Director of ACT Health Services. McKay was Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Health between December 1982 and September 1984, before the Prime Minister Bob Hawke appointed him to head the Australian Government Department of Health. His Department of Health appointment lasted until July 1987, when the Department was merged with the Department of Community Services to become the Department of Community Services and Health. When the merger took place, McKay was offered an Associate Secretary position at the new Department, but McKay refused the offer. His refusal was based on a dispute over the way the new Department was to be structured. In October 1987, McKay was appointed to review Worksafe Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Codd
Michael Henry Codd (born 1939) is a retired Australian senior public servant and university chancellor. Early life Mike Codd was born in 1939. He attended University of Adelaide, graduating in 1961 with a Bachelor of Economics with honours. Career Codd was appointed to his first Secretary role in 1981, becoming head of the Department of Industrial Relations. Between 1985 and 1986 Codd served as Secretary of the Department of Community Services. In 1986 he was appointed Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretary. In 1987 he worked with Prime Minister Bob Hawke to introduce massive reform changes to the public service, creating "super ministry" departments. Codd did note potential disadvantages of the machinery of government changes, including that there was potential for "bunker mentality" to continue. Codd retired from the public service in December 1991, his appointment was terminated by an Executive Council meeting on 27 December that year. After h ... [...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] |
