Leo Hielscher outlines his shift from head of Treasury to take up an appointment as the inaugural chairperson of the Queensland Treasury Corporation. He discusses his work in the private sector on company boards and in charities.
Brian Head describes his life after leaving the public service in 2003, including applying for a range of jobs before accepting a research chair at Griffith University, the challenge of re-establishing himself as a senior academic after having been in the public service for 13 years, and his subsequent move to the University of Queensland.
Ross Rolfe describes the relationship between government and vice chancellors under the Beattie era, including John Hay at UQ, and Dennis Gibson at QUT, Glyn Davis's links between government and Griffith University, and the role of Ken Fletcher and billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney.
Brian Head recounts his early history, including his birth in Fiji, his early education at state schools in rural and urban Victoria, and his high-school education at Scotch College in Melbourne. He summarises his undergraduate and graduate degrees in politics at Monash University and his PhD at the University of London, and discusses his early academic positions in Melbourne, at Murdoch University in Perth, and then at Griffith University.
