Alan Woods (public servant)
{{Short description|Australian public servant}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2014}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Alan Woods {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}}
| office1 = Secretary of the Department of Defence
| term_start1 = {{start date|1986|11|14|df=y}}
| term_end1 = 31 July 1988
| office2 = Secretary of the Department of Resources and Energy
| term_start2 = {{start date|1983|3|11|df=y}}
| term_end2 = 1986
| office3 = Secretary of the Department of National Development and Energy
| term_start3 = {{start date|1979|12|8|df=y}}
| term_end3 = 11 March 1983
| office4 = Secretary of the Department of National Development
| term_start4 = {{start date|1977|12|20|df=y}}
| term_end4 = 8 December 1979
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| birth_name = Alan John Woods
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|3|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = Woonona, New South Wales
| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|1|13|1930|3|30|df=yes}}
| death_place = Canberra
| death_cause = Cancer
| resting_place = Gungahlin Cemetery
| occupation = Public servant
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| nationality = Australian
| spouse = Anne Therese Flynn
| children = 4 daughters and 3 sons
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Alan John Woods {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}} (30 March 1930 – 13 January 1990) was a senior Australian public servant.
Life and career
Woods was born in Woonona, New South Wales on 30 March 1930 to parents Oswald and Gladys May Woods.{{sfn|Nethercote|2012}} After attending St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill on a scholarship,{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120872475|first=Jack|last=Waterford|author-link=Jack Waterford|date=15 January 1990|newspaper=The Canberra Times|page=2|title=Obituary: Alan John Woods, AO: A new age manager with a sense of tradition}} he obtained a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney in 1955 while working as an executive trainee for Dunlop Rubber Australia Ltd.{{sfn|Nethercote|2012}}
Woods began his Commonwealth Public Sector career at the Commonwealth Public Service Board in Sydney in 1955.{{sfn|Nethercote|2012}} He moved to Canberra in 1957, taking a research officer post in the Department of Territories.{{sfn|Nethercote|2012}}
In December 1977, Woods was appointed Secretary of the Department of National Development (later abolished and replaced by the Department of National Development and Energy, and then the Department of Resources and Energy).{{citation|title=CA 3496: Department of Resources and Energy, Central Office|url=http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+3496|publisher=National Archives of Australia|accessdate=13 January 2014|archive-date=16 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316133519/http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SuggestLogon.asp|url-status=dead}}{{citation|title=CA 2979: Department of National Development and Energy, Central Office|url=http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+2979|publisher=National Archives of Australia|accessdate=13 January 2014}}{{citation|title=CA 2475: Department of National Development [II], Central Office|url=http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CA+2475|publisher=National Archives of Australia|accessdate=13 January 2014}}
Woods was appointed Secretary of the Department of Defence in 1986,{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120872417|title=Alan Woods dies at 59|page=1|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=15 January 1990}} but was replaced in a reshuffle of department heads in mid-1988.{{sfn|Nethercote|2012}}
Awards and recognition
Woods was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1985 Australia Day Honours for "public service, particularly as Secretary to the Department of Resources and Energy".{{Cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/885336|title=Alan John Woods|last=|first=|date=|website=honours.pmc.gov.au|access-date=2019-11-01}} In the 1989 Australia Day Honours he was promoted to Companion of the Order of Australia "for public service, particularly as Secretary to the Department of Defence".{{Cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/885266|title=Alan John Woods, AO|last=|first=|date=|website=honours.pmc.gov.au|access-date=2019-11-01}}
Death
Woods became ill with cancer in the later part of 1989. He died of the disease on 13 January 1990 in Canberra.
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References and further reading
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- {{citation|title=Woods, Alan John (1930–1990)|first=J.R.|last=Nethercote|year=2012|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/woods-alan-john-15878|archivedate=6 November 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106111124/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/woods-alan-john-15878|url-status=live}}
- {{citation|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/885266|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030170453/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/885266|archivedate=30 October 2018|url-status=live|title=Search Australian Honours: WOODS, Alan John|publisher=Australian Government}}
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Category:Deaths from cancer in the Australian Capital Territory
Category:Companions of the Order of Australia
Category:Secretaries of the Australian Department of Defence
Category:People educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill