Aged 16, he joined the Commonwealth Public Service on 18 March 1937 as a clerk for the Department of Trade and Customs in Canberra.
Other commentators, including political scientist Richard Mulgan, have argued that rhetoric in 2013 about a bloated APS is ill-informed and unsustainable, if service benchmarks are to be met.
Subsequent to his retirement from the Army in 2005, Lewis joined the Australian Public Service and was appointed to the position of First Assistant Secretary of the National Security Division in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
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The Department was a Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Markets and Migration, initially Victor Wilson (until 18 June 1926) and then Thomas Paterson.
Robert Henry Muirhead Collins (1852–1927), English-born naval officer and Australian public service head
Since discontinuing his religious studies Stensholt primarily worked in various roles with the Australian Public Service in Canberra, most notably as Assistant Director-General of Australia's overseas aid program, AusAID.
The Office Picnic (1972) is a dark comedy set in an Australian Public Service office.