Ron Brown (Australian Public Servant)
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Ron Brown is a retired senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs between 1987 and 1990 under the
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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
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(SBS) between 1985 and 1987. In May 1987, Brown was appointed
Secretary A secretary, administrative assistant, executive assistant, personal secretary, or other similar titles is an individual whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, program evalu ...
of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (later Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs). Brown left the
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shortly after the 1990 federal election, thought to have been sacked by Prime Minister
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, 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.


References

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