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 Alan Rose. 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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