FOR MEDIA 5 JULY 1989
The Government will be recommending to the Governor-General
that Dr Chris Higgins, currently a Deputy Secretary in the
Department of the Treasury, be appointed Secretary of that
Department with effect from 18 September 1989.
The vacancy arises following the appointment of the present
Secretary, Mr Bernie Fraser, as Governor of the Reserve Bank
from that date.
Dr Higgins has been a Senior Executive ( SES) Officer in the
Treasury from 1975, having joined the Treasury in December
1969 after a period of several years in the Bureau of
Statistics. Apart from a period working in a senior post for the OECD in
Paris, Dr Higgins has served continuously in the Treasury
since 1969.
He has been the Deputy Secretary ( Economic) in the Treasury
since 1984.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social
Sciences in Australia in 1987.
Hawke, Robert
Period of Service: 11/03/1983 - 20/12/1991
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Release Date:
05/07/1989
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