Charles Halton

Charles Halton   (mathematician, civil servant, deep state functionary)
Born	4 March 1932 Yorkshire, England
Died	16 October 2013
Nationality	British, Australian?
Australia's first transport czar and Secretary of the Department of Defence Support. Father of Jane Halton.  Australia/Secretary of the Department of Communications In office 1 February 1986 - 24 July 1987

Charles Christopher Halton was a senior Australian civil servant. He is the father of deep state operative Jane Halton.

Life and career

Charles Halton was born on 4 March 1932 in Yorkshire, Northern England.

As an engineer in England in the 1950s and 60s, Halton was associated with the development of the Concorde and guidance systems for the surface-to-air missile Bristol Bloodhound.

Gough Whitlam appointed Halton Secretary of the Department of Transport in 1973, and Halton and his family moved to Canberra from Canada where they had lived since 1969, working as a leader of the Canadian Transport Commission

Halton's responsibilities embraced lighthouses, coastal surveillance, international airline travel, the first Australian communications satellites and, later, the development of a national electricity grid.

The Halton family stayed in Canberra, with Charles Halton appointed to further senior positions in the Australian Public Service, as the only Secretary of the Department of Defence Support (1982-84), as Chairman leading a taskforce on Youth Allowance Administration (1984–85) and as Secretary of the Department of Communications (1986–87).

Awards

Charles Halton was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1983.

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