 | This article needs to be updated. (January 2020) |
| Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | |
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since 6 June 2022 | |
| Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | |
| Appointer | Prime Minister |
| Inaugural holder | Malcolm Shepherd |
| Formation | 1 January 1912 |
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.
The secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet should not be confused with the Cabinet secretary, a ministerial position within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio responsible for assisting the prime minister in the procedural and operational matters of the Cabinet of Australia.
The secretary of the DPMC is Australia’s highest-paid bureaucrat, earning more than $914,000, as of 2019.[1]
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