Dr Martin Parkinson AC PSM served in Commonwealth Government leadership positions on all facets of economic, social, foreign, defence and national security policies for almost forty years. As the secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet between 2016 and 2019, Martin was Australia’s most senior public servant. He served as secretary to the Treasury between 2011 and 2014, and before that was secretary of Australia’s inaugural Department of Climate Change from 2007. During his tenure, Martin led our key public sector organisations through a period of considerable political uncertainty, serving under five different prime ministers.
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A Decade of Drift
Martin Parkinson
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A Decade of Drift
Martin Parkinson
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ANU Meet the Author – Leigh Boucher & Michelle Arrow
Australian National University
Cultural Centre, 153 University Avenue, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Leigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on their book, with Barbara Baird and Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia, an insightful...
Verge 2024: Click Launch
The Alderman
134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC
In the eighteenth edition of this creative anthology, 26 writers explore consonance and assonance that rattle like a chattering jaw, narratives composed of hyperlinked rabbit-holing, and stories that tick with...
Dave Witty ‘The Lost Children’s Tree’ – Words in Winter Festival
The Lost Childrens Cairn Memorial Reserve
4360 Midland Hwy, Daylesford, VIC
As part of this year’s Words in Winter festival, I will be doing a special talk. I’m telling the story of the three children who went missing in Daylesford in...
ANU Meet the Author – Leigh Boucher & Michelle Arrow
Australian National University Cultural Centre, 153 University Avenue, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaLeigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on their book, with Barbara Baird and Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia, an insightful...
Verge 2024: Click Launch
The Alderman 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VICIn the eighteenth edition of this creative anthology, 26 writers explore consonance and assonance that rattle like a chattering jaw, narratives composed of hyperlinked rabbit-holing, and stories that tick with...
Dave Witty ‘The Lost Children’s Tree’ – Words in Winter Festival
The Lost Childrens Cairn Memorial Reserve 4360 Midland Hwy, Daylesford, VICAs part of this year’s Words in Winter festival, I will be doing a special talk. I’m telling the story of the three children who went missing in Daylesford in...
