Experience

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  Superannuated Commonwealth Officers' Association

  • President

    • Oct 2014 - Present

    I am head of an organization representing up to 17,000 members throughout Australia, lobbying for improvements in pension indexation, taxation, superannuation, access to the Age pension, access to transport concessions, etc.

  • Vice President

    • Mar 2012 - Present

    I lobby the Federal Government to obtain pension indexation that keeps up with increases in living costs, and to obtain fair tax treatment of our pensions. I monitor changes to the taxation system and write articles for our newsletters.

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  Australian Bureau of Statistics

  • Director

    • Apr 1985 - Jul 2004

    I held a number of Director level positions in the National Accounts and International and Financial Accounts Branches. I was in charge of compiling Input-Output tables for 13 years, and later in charge of producing globalization statistics.