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Tony Blunn moving on
to post in Finance
By ROSS ANDREWS, City Reporter
Former City Manager Mr
To'hy Blunn has been ap
pointed to a second-division
post in the Department of
Finance.
The appointment is from his
$29,971 second-division, level 3,
post as first assistant secretary in
charge of the government division
of the Department of the Capital
Territory, to a $32,336 second
division, level 4, post in the Depart
ment of Finance.
Mr Blunn, 42, became well
known as the youngest City Man
ager Canberra has had. He was
appointed to the post at 38, after a
term of exchange duty with the
National Capital Commission in
Ottawa, Canada.
In 1976, Mr Blunn was appointed
over the heads of four other, longer
serving first assistant secretaries to
act for three weeks as departmental
Secretary.
In 1977, he was again appointed
acting Secretary after the appoint
ment of the then Secretary, Mr Lou
Engledow, as Secretary to the De
partment of Immigration and
Ethnic Affairs.
Mr Blunn came to Canberra with
the first major Defence move to the
ACT as a civilian in the Depart
ment of the Navy, 21 years ago. He
then went to the Department of Air
and later to the Department of
Immigration.
After a decade's experience with
the Public Service, and with a law
degree from the ANU, he was pro
moted to a position with the Public
Service Board and three years later
to the Department of the Interior.
He was closely involved with the
development of the City Manager's
Office and in 1971 was asked to
take over the city services branch.
After the Department of the Capi
tal Territory was formed, he moved
to the position of assistant secretary
in the lands administration branch.
He will take over an area in the
Department of Finance that has
Mr Blunn Help
Mr Blunn
been linked with works, mainland
Territories, defence and other
areas. He will take the post vacated
by the retirement of Mr Ken See.
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