Nationality Australian | Name David Rosalky | |
Alma mater University of Sydney
Australian National University Occupation Public servant
Academic Books Report of the Review of Veterans' Entitlements January 2003: Commissioned by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs the Honourable Dana Vale MP Education University of Sydney, Australian National University | ||
David Marcus Rosalky (born 26 May 1946) is an Academic and a retired senior Australian public servant. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University in Canberra.
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Background and early life
David Rosalky was born in Sydney on 26 May 1946.
Career
Between 1980 and 1983, Rosalky was Senior Private Secretary to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
In July 1994 Rosalky was appointed Secretary of the ACT Government Chief Minister's Department.
Rosalky was appointed to his first Australian Government Secretary role in 1995, as head of the Department of Industrial Relations (later Department of Workplace Relations and Small Business.
Prime Minister John Howard shifted Rosalky from the Department of Workplace Relations and Small Business to a new role as head of the Department of Social Security in early 1998. Later that year, the Department was transitioned to become the Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS) and it department grew to take on functions from other departments and agencies.
Rosalky retired from the public service in 2001, announcing his departure from the service while FaCS was in caretaker mode prior to the 2001 federal election.