Rosemary Huxtable

Rosemary Huxtable PSM is a retired senior Australian public servant. She was the Secretary of the Department of Finance from December 2016 to August 2022. From 2010 to 2013, Huxtable was a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Health and Ageing.[1] She moved to the Department of Finance in 2013, also as a Deputy Secretary.[2][3] In her finance department role, Huxtable played a key role developing several Australian federal budgets.[4] When former Finance Secretary Jane Halton stood down in 2016, Huxtable was promoted to act as head of the agency, having been recommended to the role by the Prime Minister.[5][6] She was appointed permanently to the role after it being recommended by the Prime Minister in December 2016.[7] She retired on 8 August 2022.[8]