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1 May 2008
Career Transition and Support Centre - Open for business

Speeches

The following speeches/presentations have been made at Commission events or by Commission employees.

18 August 2008
Valedictory Lecture by Robert Cornall AO, Secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department

30 July 2008
Water in Australia - The big issues
Ken Matthews, Chair and CEO, National Water Commission

28 July 2008
Valedictory Lecture by Mark Sullivan, Secretary, Department of Veterans' Affairs - An Unlikely Secretary

19 May 2008
Climate Change Challenges (Presentation slides only)
Martin Parkinson - Address to the Leader to Leader Forum

30 April 2008
Address to Heads of Agencies and members of Senior Executive Service
Speech by The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia
also available as media files: WMA (29mb) MP3 (44mb)

29 April 2008
Growth fetishism and public policy
Clive Hamilton - Visiting Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University

15 April 2008
Stepping up to change
Greg Russell - Chief Executive Officer, Airservices Australia

12 March 2008
LDN Annual forum

Talent and succession management - Natalie Archer, Director, Bendelta
Talent and succession management - Telstra

8 February 2008
Valedictory Lecture by Dr Peter Shergold, Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

1 November 2007-
LDN - BreakfastManaging talent through better career design
Dr Heidi Viljaama, Managing Director, CareerStorm Ltd, Finland

7 September 2007
LDN - Investing in Leadership Development Are we getting value for money?
Dr Carla Day, Director, Leadership Values and Cultural Engagement, Personnel Executive, Department of Defence presentation

27 June 2007
LDN - Powering Up Leadership through Mentoring
Imogen Wareing, Director at The Growth Connection presentation

23 April 2007
Reflections on Life at Home and Away in the Australian Public Service
Ms Joanna Hewitt, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Valedictory speech

18 April 2007
An appetite for service
Ms Lynne Tacy, Deputy Public Service Commissioner at 'A Taste of Government'

4 April 2007
LDN - Organisational Change (Leadership – Culture – Change)
Malcolm Wright - National Manager, Planning & Change Management, Centrelink

21 February 2007
LDN - Recruiting and retaining staff in a high pressure environment
Philippa Crome – Branch Manager HR Services, Department of Finance and Administration

5 December 2006
'The last count' - Dennis Trewin, Australian Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics - Valedictory speech

15 November 2006
LDN - Annual one-day forum - Leadership, culture and change

Dr Iain Densten, Associate Professor of Leadership, UNSW at ADFA
Mr Kevin Panozza, CEO, SalesForce
Mr Michael D’Ascenzo – Commissioner, ATO
Ms Josephine Schumann, HR Manager, DVA
Ms Kate Dawson, Better Practice – Diversity, Australian Public Service Commission

13 September 2006
LDN - Leadership in crises and disasters -

Infections and epidemics - Professor Peter Collignon, MB, BS (Hons), B.Sc (Med), FASM, FRACP, FRCPA
Leadership in crisis situations - General Peter Cosgrove, AM, MC, (Retd)

22 June 2006

Still learning after all these years - Dr Peter Shergold, Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Launch of Better Practice Guides: Workforce Planning, Performance Management & Absence Management - Lynne Tacy, A/g Public Service Commissioner22 June 2006

21 June 2006
LDN - Accountability, governance and leadership -

The ANAO's leadership initiatives in improving public administration - Ian McPhee, PSM, Auditor-General for Australia
Organisation management, oversight and practice - lessons from the Cornelia Rau Inquiry - Associate Professor Michael (Mick) Palmer, AO, APM

2 May 2006
An overview of organisational change within the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and its implications for other agencies - Andrew Metcalfe, Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs - Presentation

12 April 2006
LDN - Advancing leadership development practices

Building leadership capability - Ian Harris, Clerk of the House, Department of the House of Representatives.
DMO leadership programmes - Mary Kelaher, Director-General People and Performance, Defence Materiel Organisation.

22 February 2006
LDN seminar: Reviews and initiatives in leadership development

The impact of leadership development - Catherine Hayman, Business Manager, Organisational Learning and Development, Centrelink
Building SES leadership capability - Gordon McDonald, Director, Governance and Support/Programme Delivery, Programmes, Australian Public Commission

30 November 2005
LDN annual forum: The talent war: leadership and retention issues

Identifying talent - Leanne Ansell-McBride, Assistant Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office
Attracting and maintaining diversity of expertise - Peter Yuile, Executive Director, Australian Qauarantine and Inspection Service
Implications of the MAC 5 report - Rob Wooding, project team leader, MAC report 2005, Managing and Sustaining the APS Workforce

21 September 2005
LDN - Starting anew: current initiatives in leadership -
Geoff Leeper, Deputy Secretary, Department of Human Services

21 September 2005
Starting anew: current initiatives in leadership
Andrew Metcalfe, Secretary, Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

20 July 2005
Seminar: Leadership in a changing environment

Professor Judith Whitworth, AC, Director, John Curtin School of Medical Research,
Joanna Hewitt, Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Kerrie Tim, Group Manager, Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination

14 July 2005
Protective security and the APS Senior Executive
Ed Tyrie, Executive Director, Protective Security Coordination Centre (PSCC), Attorney-General's Department

9 June 2005
SES update
Jeff Lamond, Merit Protection Commissioner

27th April 2005
Succession management - How do you make it happen?
Ms Doreen Blevins, Assistant Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office

20 April 2005
Collaborative community relationships
Malcolm Hellmuth, Department of Main Roads, Queensland

24 March 2005
Preparing the public service for super change
Steve Gibbs, CEO of the Public Sector and Commonwealth Super Schemes (PSS and CSS) and Leo Bator, Commission for Superannuation and CEO of ComSuper

23 February 2005
Leadership and Whole of Government
Patricia Scott, Secretary of the Department of Human Services (speaking notes)

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