Walter Ives
CBE
Secretary of the Department of Primary Industry (I)
In office
30 December 1968 – 12 June 1974
Secretary of the Department of Agriculture
In office
12 June 1974 – 22 December 1975
Secretary of the Department of Primary Industry (II)
In office
22 December 1975 – 18 May 1978
Personal details
Born(1917-08-26)26 August 1917
Died20 December 2006(2006-12-20) (aged 89)
Resting placeNorthern Suburbs Memorial Gardens
NationalityAustralia Australian
SpouseBetty
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
OccupationPublic servant

Walter Ives CBE (26 August 1917 – 20 December 2006) was a senior Australian public servant. He was head of the Department of Primary Industry from 1968 to 1978.

Life and career

Walter Ives was born on 26 August 1917.[1]

Ives worked in the CSIRO, and was appointed to the Department of Primary Industry in 1969 from his position there.[2] As the Department of Primary Industry transitioned to become the Department of Agriculture, and then the Department of Primary Industry again, Ives remained its head.[3][4][5]

In May 1978, Ives was named as the first chairman of the Primary Industry Bank of Australia, and he left the Department of Primary Industry.[6]

Ives died on 20 December 2006, aged 89.[1]

Awards

Ives was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1976 for his public service.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Walter Ives (1917 - 2006), Heaven Address, archived from the original on 4 September 2014
  2. ↑ The Mandarins, 1974, The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Walter Ives, is a Master of Economics of the University of Sydney, who came to his present position in 1969 straight from CSIRO where he had spent the greater
  3. ↑ CA 63: Department of Primary Industry [I], Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 27 December 2013
  4. ↑ CA 1768: Department of Agriculture, Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 1 January 2014
  5. ↑ CA 1960: Department of Primary Industry [II], Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 27 December 2013
  6. ↑ "Ives heads new farm bank". The Canberra Times. 17 May 1980. p. 13.
  7. ↑ "Search Australian Honours: IVES, Walter", itsanhonour.gov.au, Australian Government, archived from the original on 4 September 2014


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