Why being a nurse and working for Kevin Rudd changed Steven Kennedy

The Treasury Secretary shares his defining career moments, best advice, love for alternative Australian music from the 1980s in our public servant Q&A.

Ronald MizenPolitical correspondent

Sep 21, 2023 – 1.18pm

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What is the best career advice you have ever been given?

This was some advice given to me by Ken Henry when I was going off to work as an economic adviser for Kevin Rudd when he was prime minister. Ken took me aside and said: “Don’t worry too much about making mistakes.”

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Ronald MizenPolitical correspondentRonald Mizen is the Financial Review’s political correspondent, reporting from the press gallery at Parliament House, Canberra.