Maxwell William Moore-Wilton was born on 27 January 1943 and is an Australian corporate executive and former public servant, colloquially known as "Max the Axe".
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Max Moore-Wilton was appointed Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet with effect from 13 May 1996, shortly after John Howard became Prime Minister.
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Max Moore-Wilton immediately implemented cuts of more than 11,000 staff, including six department heads and proceeded to aggressively outsource various government services.
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Max Moore-Wilton oversaw the passing of the Public Service Act, 1999, which gave the Prime Minister the power to hire and fire heads of departments.
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Max Moore-Wilton has oversighted a remarkable period of change for the Public Service which has radically improved its efficiency, effectiveness and relevance.
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Mr Max Moore-Wilton's initiatives have included greater use of Secretary-level or senior-officer task forces to address whole of government issues, including the government's Tough on Drugs' strategy, Coastal Surveillance, bilateral economic relations with New Zealand and People Smuggling.
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Max Moore-Wilton has made an important contribution to the government's economic reform program, including fiscal consolidation and inter-governmental aspects of the New Tax System.
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Max Moore-Wilton has strongly supported me in my capacity as Chairman of the Commonwealth, including in the review of Commonwealth objectives and coordinating the preparations for the highly successful 2002 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Coolum, Queensland.
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Max Moore-Wilton has performed very effectively as Chairman of the Secretaries Committee on National Security which supports the National Security Committee of Cabinet.
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Max Moore-Wilton was a key adviser in shaping the Government's response to East Timor, the 2000 Defence White Paper and counter-terrorism measures.
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In December 2002 Max Moore-Wilton became the chief executive officer of Sydney Airport Corporation, which was owned by Macquarie Group, Hochtief and the Commonwealth Bank, after the federal government sold it a 99-yea lease to operate the airport.
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Max Moore-Wilton is a board member of the Committee for Sydney and of Infrastructure NSW.
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Max Moore-Wilton is Chairman of Southern Cross Austereo, the owners of radio station 2Day FM.
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In 2013 Max Moore-Wilton caused controversy at an annual general meeting of the company by answering a question from a shareholder that sought to understand whether the company had a cultural problem, when referring to the death of the UK nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who committed suicide after being the subject of a prank telephone call by breakfast radio hosts employed by 2Day FM.