J.R. Nethercote

John Nethercote joined the Commonwealth public service in 1970. He worked over the years for the Public Service Board, the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, the Public Service Commission of Canada, and the Defence Review Committee. He joined the staff of the Australian Senate in 1987, and his assignments there included Secretary to the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration and overseeing publication of Odgers' Australian Senate Practice (6th edition). He also edited Parliament and Bureaucracy (1982) and was a joint editor of The Constitutional Commission and the 1988 Referendums (1988) and The Menzies Era (1995). Since retirement from the Senate staff, he has written extensively for The Canberra Times on public service matters.