CSG provides a readily accessible network of professional advisers available to provide high level strategic advice directed to the efficient implementation of Government policy, including

• strategic operational reviews
• governance reviews
• pre-ANAO performance reviews and post-ANAO performance review assessments
• corporatisation and privatisation support
• capability reviews and assistance with other APS transformational programs
• chairing or membership of statutory boards and audit committees
• senior executive mentoring
• APS ethics advice

Experience

CSG members have extensive experience in the APS through the senior positions that they have held, including as:

• secretaries or deputy secretaries of Departments
• chief executives or chairs of statutory authorities

Projects on which members have worked include:

• establishment of Biosecurity Australia
• review of the relationship between CASA and the ATSB
• establishment of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority
• MDBA governance
• the National Rail Frieght Initiative
• sale of the Pipeline Authority
• review of the National Science & Technology Centre
• support with investigation of possible privatisation of Medibank Private