Stephen Skehill

Stephen Skehill
Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department
In office
23 May 1994 – 1998
Personal details
NationalityAustralian
OccupationPublic servant

Stephen Skehill is an Australian lawyer and public servant. Between 1994 and 1998 he was Secretary of the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department. He is currently ethics adviser to the ACT Legislative Assembly.

Life and career

Skehill first joined the Australian Public Service in 1970,[1] in the Department of Labour and National Service.[2]

Between 1970 and 1984, he worked in a range of agencies including the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs, the Trade Practices Commission and the Department of Social Security.[2]

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.[1] In 1994, he became Secretary of the Department, replacing Alan Rose.[3][2]

In 2011, he was engaged by the Department of Finance and Deregulation to lead a review of small and medium agencies in the Attorney-General's portfolio.[4][5] In response to the review, which came to be known as the Skehill Review,[6] federal courts adopted a comprehensive shared services model and some functions were merged.[7]

In 2008, Skehill was appointed ethics and integrity advisor to the ACT Legislative Assembly, a new role.[8][9] In 2014 in the role, Skehill recommended a register and code of ethics for lobbyists in the ACT.[10] He has also been available part-time to provide ethics and integrity advice to MLAs.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "New SES officers named". The Canberra Times. 9 January 1989. p. 2.
  2. ^ a b c Burgess, Verona (12 May 1994). "Rose to head law reform commission". The Canberra Times. p. 3.
  3. ^ Keating, Paul (11 May 1994). "Secretary to the Attorney-General's Department" (Press release). Archived from the original on 4 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Chapter 3: Management and accountability" (PDF), Attorney-General's Department Annual Report 2011–12, 2012, p. 197, archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2014
  5. ^ Strategic review of small and medium agencies in the Attorney-General's Portfolio: Report to the Australian Government (PDF), January 2012, archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2014
  6. ^ Fox, Tyler (May 2013), "Federal courts funding", Budget Review 2013–14, Parliament of Australia, archived from the original on 25 February 2014
  7. ^ Singhal, Pallavi (18 March 2013). "Federal courts to share services in response to Skehill recommendations". Intermedium. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013.
  8. ^ Ethics and Integrity, ACT Legislative Assembly, archived from the original on 4 February 2014
  9. ^ Ethics tsar only a phone call away, ABC Radio National, 18 July 2008, archived from the original on 20 July 2014
  10. ^ Lawson, Kirsten (5 June 2014). "ACT lobbyist register should apply to public servants and all MPs, says adviser Skehill". The Canberra Times. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014.
  11. ^ "Seselja breathes a sigh of relief". The Canberra Times. Fairfax Media. 12 April 2012. Archived from the original on 21 July 2014.
Government offices
Preceded by Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department
1994 – 1998 		Succeeded by


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