About Malcolm Macgregor Summers
Lived 1924 – 1987 (aged 62–63). Malcolm Macgregor Summers was a civil servant.
Malcolm Macgregor Summers (1924September 1987) was a senior Australian public servant. He is best known for his time as Secretary of the Department of Shipping and Transport from 1969 to 1972.
Life and career Summers was born in Queensland in 1925. He joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1941 and moved to Canberra in the early 1950s to work for the Burueau of Census and Statistics. In the role, he worked to set up the Bureau of Transport Economics and brought in new funding arrangements for national highways, rail, urban transport, shipping and road safety.
In December 1972, the department was reformed as the Department of Transport. Summers was Secretary until late 1973 when then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam announced he was to become the sole Commissioner of a Commonwealth Inquiry into the maritime industry.
Summers retired in 1976 due to ill health.
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Malcolm Macgregor Summers was born in 1924 in Queensland.
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