Vince FitzGerald
| Dr Vince Fitzgerald | |
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| Secretary of the Department of Trade | |
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In office 4 March 1986 – 24 July 1987 | |
| Secretary of the Department of Employment, Education and Training | |
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In office 24 July 1987 – 1 March 1989 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vincent FitzGerald |
| Nationality |
 Australian |
| Alma mater |
University of Queensland Harvard University |
| Occupation | Public servant |
Dr Vincent "Vince" FitzGerald is a former senior Australian public servant, now a private consultant.
Early life
Vince FitzGerald attended schooling at St Augustine's College, Cairns.[1] FitzGerald graduated from the University of Queensland in 1969 with a Bachelor of Economics with first class honours in Econometrics, and a University Medal.[2]
Career
FitzGerald joined the Australian Public Service in 1969 as a research officer with the Australian Bureau of Statistics.[2]
In 1985, FitzGerald was appointed a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Trade.[3] He was promoted to Secretary of the Department in March 1986.[4]
In July 1987, FitzGerald was shifted to the newly created Department of Employment, Education and Training.[5] FitzGerald left the role in 1989 to join consulting firm Geoff Allen and Associates, a higher-paid job in the private sector.[6]
As a consultant, FitzGerald was the architect of the compulsory superannuation scheme introduced by the Keating Government in 1992.[7] Superannuation was later refined in response to FitzGerald's June 1993 publication National Savings: A Report to the Treasurer in which he identified the importance of national saving, and recommended ways in which national saving could be increased.[8]
In 1995, Paul Keating called FitzGerald a "sour ex-bureaucrat" and claimed that VitzGerald had wanted to be Secretary of the Treasury but was upset to have never made it.[9] This was a response to a criticism FitzGerald made to aspects of a Keating Budget.
References
- ↑ Vince Fitzgerald: Director, Melbourne, Acil Allen Consulting, archived from the original on 26 January 2014
- 1 2 Vince FitzGerald, archived from the original on 25 April 2012
- ↑ "Trade position filled". The Canberra Times. 19 July 1985. p. 7. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014.
- ↑ CA 3500: Department of Trade [II], Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 23 February 2014
- ↑ CA 5986: Department of Employment, Education and Training, National Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 23 February 2014
- ↑ "In Brief: Another DEET senior goes". The Canberra Times. 10 November 1989. p. 5. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014.
- ↑ Jopson, Debra (7 April 2012). "Super unfair, says its creator". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 29 June 2012.
- ↑ Duval, D.B. (1994), The Financing and Costing of Government Superannuation Schemes (PDF), Australian Government Actuary, p. 5, ISBN 0 644 34863 1, archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2014
- ↑ Cole-Adams, Peter (23 September 1995). "Keating's day of the blowtorch". The Canberra Times. p. 1. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014.
| Government offices | ||
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| Preceded by John Menadue |
Secretary of the Department of Trade 1986 – 1987 |
Succeeded by Stuart Harris as Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| Preceded by Helen Williams as Secretary of the Department of Education |
Secretary of the Department of Employment, Education and Training 1987 – 1989 |
Succeeded by Greg Taylor |