Prudence Brown
This module has been designed by Dr Prudence Brown, an expert in the field of writing for government. Dr Brown draws on more than 20 years of experience working for governments in the Northern Territory, Canberra and Queensland. She has worked at local, state and federal government levels, in a range of agencies. She has even worked in a Minister's office, assessing the work of other public servants. Most of her roles were as a policy advisor in a central agency, and mostly at the executive level. As a result, she has written and vetted countless briefs, Cabinet submissions, submissions to inquiries and reports. More recently she has been teaching public policy related topics at the University of Queensland, as well as how to write for government to public servants in Papua New Guinea.