The office of Downing Street Chief of Staff is the most senior political appointee in the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,acting as a senior aide to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The holder of the office retains a highly powerful,non-ministerial position within Her Majesty's Government.
Joshua Anthony Frydenberg is an Australian former politician who served as the treasurer of Australia and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2018 to 2022. He also served as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Kooyong from 2010 to 2022.
Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann is a Belgian-born Australian politician and diplomat who currently serves as Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),having assumed the office on 1 June 2021.
Arthur Sinodinos is an Australian diplomat and former Liberal Party politician who has been Ambassador to the United States since February 2020. He served as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister John Howard from 1997 to 2007 and was a Senator for New South Wales from 2011 to 2019,becoming a minister in the Abbott and Turnbull Governments.
John Arthur Fraser is an Australian public servant. He commenced in his role as Secretary of the Department of the Treasury in January 2015,and announced his retirement in July 2018.
In Australia,a departmental secretary is the most senior public servant of an Australian Government or state government department. They are typically responsible for the day-to-day actions of a department.
Mark Philip Sedwill,Baron Sedwill,is a British diplomat and senior civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service to Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson from 2018 to 2020. He also served as the United Kingdom National Security Adviser from 2017 to 2020. He was previously the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010 and the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan in 2010. He was the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from February 2013 to April 2017.
Daniel Thomas Tehan is an Australian politician who was the Minister for Trade,Tourism and Investment in the Morrison Government from 2020 to 2022. He is a member of the Liberal Party and previously served as Minister for Defence Materiel (2016),Defence Personnel (2016–2017),Veterans' Affairs (2016–2017),Social Services (2017–2018),and Education (2018–2020). He has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2010 election,representing the Victorian seat of Wannon.
Martin Lee Parkinson is a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of the Treasury between March 2011 and December 2014. On 3 December 2015 it was announced that he would return to the public service as Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. He retired from the position on 30 August 2019 and was replaced by Phil Gaetjens,former chief of staff to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Parkinson has served as the Chancellor of Macquarie University since 2019.
Vice Admiral Raymond James Griggs,is an Australian senior public servant and a former senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He served as Chief of Navy from June 2011 to June 2014,before being appointed Vice Chief of the Defence Force until his transfer to the reserve in July 2018.
Linda Karen Reynolds is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Liberal Party and has served as a Senator for Western Australia since 2014. She held senior ministerial office as a cabinet minister in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022.
The Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is the public service head of Australia's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the most senior public servant in the administration of Government in Australia.
James Edward Chalmers is an Australian politician,currently serving as the 41st Treasurer of Australia since 23 May 2022,having served as shadow treasurer from 2019 to 2022. He has been a member of the House of Representatives,representing the Division of Rankin in Queensland for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2013.
Sir Geoffrey John "Geoff" Yeend was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet between 1978 and 1986.
Edward Alfred Evans was an Australian senior public servant and economist. From 1993 to 2001,he was Secretary of the Department of the Treasury.
The National Security Committee (NSC),also known as National Security Committee of Cabinet,is the peak decision-making body for national security and major foreign policy matters in the Australian Government. It is a committee of the Cabinet of Australia though decisions of the NSC do not require the endorsement of the Cabinet itself.
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO),also known as the Office of the Prime Minister,is the private office of the Prime Minister of Australia that provides political advice and executive support to the Prime Minister. The PMO is led by the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff and or Principal Private Secretary and is composed of party advisers,media specialists,and political strategists. Scholars including Professor Anne Tiernan of Griffith University and Professor James Walter of Monash University have observed the centralisation and expansion of power within the PMO over the past three decades.
The National COVID-19 Commission Advisory Board (NCC) is the Australian Government strategic advisory board for the national economic recovery to the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally formed as the National COVID-19 Coordination Commission on 25 March 2020,Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the body as responsible for advising the government on public–private partnerships and coordination to mitigate the social and economic impacts of the pandemic in Australia. On 22 July 2020,the commission was renamed to the National COVID-19 Commission Advisory Board to better reflect the advisory,not executive,nature of the body.
Brendan Murphy is an Australian public servant,health executive and nephrologist who served as the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Australia from 4 October 2016 before beginning as the Secretary of the Department of Health on 13 July 2020.
The Albanese government is the federal executive government of Australia,led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party. The Albanese Government commenced on 23 May 2022,when Albanese and an interim ministry of four other Labor MPs were sworn into their relevant ministerial portfolios by the Governor-General of Australia. The government is composed of members of the Labor Party which will govern with 77 seats on the floor of the House of Representatives,enough for a three seat majority. Albanese succeeded the Scott Morrison-led Liberal/National Coalition government (2018–2022),which became unable to continue in government following the results of the 2022 federal election. This is the first Labor government to be in office at the federal level since the second Rudd government was defeated by the Coalition at the 2013 election. Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles is serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.
