About Vic Skermer
Lived 1908 – 1992 (aged 83–84). Vic Skermer was a civil servant.
Victor John William "Vic" Skermer (1908November 1992) was an Australian public servant. He was Commonwealth Auditor-General between June 1961 and May 1973.
Life and career In 1925, Skermer joined the Commonwealth Public Service as a mechanic-in-training at the Postmaster-General's Department.
Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced Skermer's appointment as Auditor-General on 2 June 1961. The appointment was a promotion for Skermer from his position as Deputy Auditor-General. Between 1961 and 1971, the accounts and records of three new departments and 44 new statutory bodies came within the remit of Skermer's audits—a huge growth in the Auditor-General's auditing function.
Skermer retired in 1973, after 48 years of public service.
In November 1992, after several months of illness, Skermer died aged 84.
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Vic Skermer was born in 1908.
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Vic Skermer died in 1992 in Canberra.
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