Joseph Carrodus

Joseph Aloysius Carrodus (3 September 1885 – 8 April 1961) was a senior Australian public servant.

Early life and career Joseph Carrodus was born on 3 September 1885 in Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He studied at St. Patrick's College in East Melbourne and then the University of Melbourne.

Carrodus joined the Department of External Affairs as a junior in 1904, not long after leaving school.

During World War I, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in February 1916, departing from Melbourne on the ship HMAT A34 Persic in June 1916 to fight in France as an infantry captain. joining the Department of Home and Territories as a clerk. When he returned to Canberra from the role in the Northern Territory, he prepared a report recommending the Administrator of the Northern Territory and other branch heads make periodic visits to the Northern Territory inland in the dry season, writing Darwin is not the Territory, it gives no indication of the conditions prevailing inland."

Carrodus was appointed Secretary of the Department of the Interior (I) in 1935, and stayed on in the role as the department transitioned to a newly Christened Department of the Interior (II), until his retirement from the Australian Public Service in 1949.

Carrodus and his wife Mabel were keen gardeners, and rarely missed Canberra Horticultural Society shows.

Carrodus died on 8 April 1961 in Canberra Community Hospital and was buried in Canberra cemetery.