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George Warwick Smith

George Warwick Smith
CBE
Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction
In office
5 December 1978 (1978-12-05) – 5 August 1980
Secretary of the Department of Construction
In office
20 April 1976 (1976-04-20) – 5 December 1978
Secretary of the Department of the Northern Territory
In office
19 December 1972 (1972-12-19) – 9 January 1973
Acting Secretary of the Department of Services and Property
In office
19 December 1972 (1972-12-19) – 16 January 1973
Secretary of the Department of the Interior
In office
23 July 1970 (1970-07-23) – 19 December 1972
Secretary of the Department of External Territories
In office
28 February 1968 (1968-02-28) – 22 July 1970
Secretary of the Department of Territories
In office
16 May 1964 (1964-05-16) – 27 February 1968
Secretary of the Department of the Capital Territory
In office
20 December 1972 – 9 January 1973
Personal details
Born George Henry Warwick Smith
(1916-10-03)3 October 1916
Charters Towers, Queensland
Died 27 December 1999(1999-12-27) (aged 83)
Sydney, New South Wales
Spouse(s) Joan
Children 2 daughters and 1 son
Occupation Public servant

George Henry Warwick Smith CBE (3 October 1916 – 27 December 1999) was a senior Australian public servant.

Warwick Smith was born in Charters Towers, Queensland on 3 November 1916. He attended high school at Brisbane Grammar School, but left early at the age of 15. He went on to matriculate and graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland.

Warwick Smith moved from a job at the Queensland Education Department to the Commonwealth Public Service in the Department of Commerce. He soon left the public service to join the Army, serving during the Second World War between 1941 and 1945.

After the war, Warwick Smith returned to his public service career in the Department of Commerce. He was appointed personal assistant to the Department's Secretary, J.F. Murphy, with whom he gained a lot of trade conference experience.

Warwick Smith's first Secretary role was in the Department of Territories (later External Territories), he moved to the Department in 1964, a time when Australia was coming under increasing United Nations pressure to hasten Papua New Guinea's progress towards self-government. Warwick Smith established an unusual departmental structure with no deputy secretaries, which was unlike most Australian Government departments at the time.

He also served as Secretary in the Department of the Interior and the Secretary of the Department of Construction (later Housing and Construction).


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