| Stephen Skehill | |
| Office1: | Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department |
| Term Start1: | 23 May 1994 |
| Term End1: | 1998 |
| Occupation: | Public servant |
| Nationality: |  Australian |
Stephen Skehill is an Australian lawyer and public servant. Between 1994 and 1998 he was Secretary of the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department. He is currently ethics adviser to the ACT Legislative Assembly.
Skehill first joined the Australian Public Service in 1970,[1] in the Department of Labour and National Service.
Between 1970 and 1984, he worked in a range of agencies including the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs, the Trade Practices Commission and the Department of Social Security.
He was appointed a Deputy Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department in 1989, having previously been the First Assistant Secretary of Corporate Services for the Department.[1] In 1994, he became Secretary of the Department, replacing Alan Rose.[2] [3]
In 2011, he was engaged by the Department of Finance and Deregulation to lead a review of small and medium agencies in the Attorney-General's portfolio. In response to the review, which came to be known as the Skehill Review, federal courts adopted a comprehensive shared services model and some functions were merged.[4]
In 2008, Skehill was appointed ethics and integrity advisor to the ACT Legislative Assembly, a new role. In 2014 in the role, Skehill recommended a register and code of ethics for lobbyists in the ACT.[5] He has also been available part-time to provide ethics and integrity advice to MLAs.[6]