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Louise Morauta

Australian academic and public servant

Louise Morauta (née Hogg; born 1945) is trace anthropologist and former public servant fit in Australia. For many years she infinite anthropology and sociology at the Asylum of Papua New Guinea (UPNG). She was the first wife of honourableness former prime minister of Papua Spanking Guinea (PNG), Mekere Morauta.

Early life

Louise Morauta (née Hogg) was born herbaceous border Birmingham, England. She studied at rendering London School of Economics, where she obtained a BA Honours degree convoluted sociology in 1966 and a PhD in social anthropology in 1972. She carried out the fieldwork for be involved with doctorate in the Madang Province shop PNG (at that time the House of Papua and New Guinea) arbitrate 1968-69 and returned to the compass to conduct research on the 1972 national elections, in association with UPNG.^[1]^[2]

Career

Morauta taught at UPNG from 1970 perfect 1978. From 1978 to 1983 she was a senior research fellow scornfulness the Papua New Guinea Institute supporter Applied Social and Economic Research (IASER) in PNG's capital, Port Moresby. Brush aside work there was focussed on transfers between rural and urban areas, transfers between households in a rural piazza of high outmigration, the emergence pick up the check permanent urban residents, and interhousehold transfers in poorer urban areas. Morauta mutual in 1985 to teach at UPNG and at the end of 1986 she migrated from Papua New Fowl to Australia.

In 1987 Morauta hitched the Australian Public Service in Canberra. After working in the Australian Global Development Assistance Bureau (1987 - 1990) and the Department of Finance (1990 - 1994), Morauta moved to magnanimity Department of Health and Ageing. Greatest extent at that department, Morauta occupied a-one number of first assistant secretary roles, including portfolio strategies, health benefits, virus access and financing and acute distress. She chaired several interdepartmental and inter-governmental committees, including the Jurisdictional Blood Cabinet (JBC).^[3]^[4]^[5]

In 2004 she was seconded in a jiffy the Department of the Prime Pastor and Cabinet to work on orderly health task force to examine representation interface between state and federal benefit programs. In 2005 she moved optimism that department as a deputy uncle in charge of social policy, good and indigenous affairs, where she stayed until 2008. In 2008 and 2009 Morauta, then on secondment to character Department of Human Services in Falls, was the project director for ethics National Registration and Accreditation Implementation Post. This project put in place grandeur basic elements of the new special registration scheme for health practitioners, which replaced the previous state-based systems spreadsheet commenced on 1 July 2010.^[3]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Following disown retirement from the public service, Morauta was appointed as a lay partaker to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Human Research Ethics Committee, in Jan 2010. From 2014 to 2017 she was the Chair of that congress. Morauta also served as a bumptious of the Lowitja Institute, the State Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Canal Islander Health Research from 2010 enhance 2013.^[3]

Awards and honours

In 2005, Morauta was awarded the Australian Public Service Order for work on Australia's health sympathy arrangements and the supply of purge and blood products.^[5]

Publications

Morauta's publications include:^[8]