Patricia Scott is a senior Australian public servant and policymaker. In her time as

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of the

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she was responsible for rolling out the first stages of the Australian Government's $40-plus billion

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Public service career

Scott joined the

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in 1990.

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appointed Patricia Scott as Secretary of the new Department of Human Services in 2004. She was instrumental establishing the new department. In May 2007 Scott was appointed to lead the

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. When the

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was elected in 2007, Scott continued her appointment as Secretary of the communications department, which was renamed to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE). In DBCDE she was responsible for rolling out the Government's $40-plus billion national broadband network. After leaving her position in DBCDE in 2009, Scott moved to a role as a Commissioner of the

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. In 2011 she headed a Productivity Commission inquiry into the feasibility of a

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, concluding that the Australian Government should take action to provide reasonable support services for people with a disability.

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