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STATESMEN IN DISGUISE*
Author(s) -
Parker R. S.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8500.1981.tb00480.x
Subject(s) - cabinet (room) , honour , pleasure , commonwealth , servant , law , art , management , sociology , classics , political science , psychology , visual arts , engineering , software engineering , neuroscience , economics
It is a daunting honour to tread in the illustrious footsteps of those who have previously delivered this Oration. It is also a personal pleasure, because Sir Robert Garran was the gracious and tolerant chairman of the Canberra University College Council that gave me my first academic post. Impressive but totally unpretentious, Sir Robert was a man that I could look up to, literally as well as figuratively. In 1938, however, I was scarcely aware that Garran had been the first Commonwealth public servant, a permanent head for thirty‐one years and, as Attorney‐General John (later Sir John) Latham put it a few days after Garran retired in January 1932, “guide, philosopher and friend to every Federal Cabinet” during those years 1