The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Communications minister, senator Helen Coonan has announced that Helen Williams AO, secretary of DCITA, will move to the Department of Human Services on Monday May 7. She will be replaced by Patricia Scott, the current secretary of that department.
Coonan said: "As secretary to the Department since 2002, Helen Williams has shown great dedication and professionalism in her role in this diverse and fast-paced portfolio, as well as to the public service throughout her career. In 1984 she was appointed the first woman secretary of a Commonwealth Department, in the Department of Education. There are few people who are better placed to have seen and experienced the changes to the Public Service over the past twenty years, and as well as holding key, central positions within the sector, she took on the challenging role as Public Service Commissioner from 1998-2002."
Coonan was far less forthcoming on Williams' replacement, Patricia Scott, about whom her announcement said nothing. In fact she holds the position into which Williams is moving.
According to the Department of Human Services' web site, Scott was appointed secretary of the department at its establishment in October 2004. She joined the Public Service in 1990 and her career has included both policy and programme experience. Previous roles included deputy secretary in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C), deputy secretary in the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources and first assistant secretary of Economic Division in PM&C. Prior to joining the Public Service, she was an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
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