CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE

As part of Finance's culture, we seek to celebrate exceptional contributions to the Department. One of the ways that Finance does this is through two annual award presentations:

• Secretary's Awards;
  
  
• Australia Day Awards.

These provide an opportunity for Finance to publicly recognise people who demonstrated the Department's values and behaviours and are excellent role models for others.

Secretary's Awards 2000--01

• GST Implementation Team-which worked closely with around 165 Government agencies to help them implement The New Tax System.
  
  
• COMCAR-for work done at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
  
  
• AIMS Team-15 people from various agencies who worked together to improve the performance of AIMS.

Recipients of Australia Day Awards 2001

	Doug Rankin
		Budget Group
	Bob Dal Santo
		Business Services Group
	Ed Lekawski
		Budget Group
	Ron Freestone
		Business Services Group
	Annette Hazell
		M&PS Group
	Betty White
		Outsource Australia

IPAA Centenary of the Australian Public Service Awards

As part of the APS's centenary celebrations, the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) recognised the important contributions of APS staff through the years.

The following Finance staff received awards:

	Laurie Carbone
		COMCAR
	John Macarthur
		COMCAR
	Robyn Edwards
		Business Services Group
	Phillip Prior
		Budget Group
	Vanessa Graham
		Budget Group
	Doug Rankin
		Budget Group
	Fran Heap
		Information Resource Centre
	Ingrid Russell
		Budget Group