This appeared late yesterday.September 16 2016 - 5:28PM Finance Department secretary Jane Halton quits Finance Department boss Jane Halton has announced her resignation.The department's staff were told on Friday morning of her pending departure after 33 years as a public servant and 14 as a departmental secretary. Deputy secretary Rosemary Huxtable will act in Ms Halton's position from October 15 until a permanent replacement is found. Ms Halton has been one of Australia's highest-profile bureaucrats since she chaired the Howard government's "people smuggling taskforce" in 2001 and was at the centre of the children overboard affair. Despite the bitterness the affair engendered on the left of politics, Ms Halton worked effectively with subsequent Labor governments, most notably as secretary of the Health Department and her role in delivering Labor's plain packaging for cigarettes. Here is the...
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from Australian Health Information Technology http://ift.tt/2cMCmWn
- TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH
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