Steven Wheelhouse

Department of the Attorney-General and Justice

I moved to the NT from Victoria in April 1989 to commence with NT Treasury as a Mainframe Security Analyst with NCOM (now DCDD), then promoted to Mainframe Security Manager. I moved on to Data Centre Operations management, the NCOM Manager Alice Springs, the Manager Mid-Range Systems and then a Client Account Manager. In 1998 I transferred to Transport & Works (now DLI), managing MVR Customer Services and the Driver Licensing & Vehicle Registration Policy unit, I then managing Road Safety & Legislation, before moving to Transport Planning & Reform as a policy officer. In 2006 I was seconded to a World Bank project in Samoa, to create a new Samoan Land Transport Authority. In 2009 I transferred to Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) and worked in a number of different roles across the AGD including, Community Justice Policy, Crime Victims Services Unit, AGD Secretariat, Fines Recovery Unit, and the Legal Assistance Grants Team. From 2011 to 2012 I was on temporary transfer to the then new Office of Children and Families, in child protection strategic reform & intergovernmental programs under the NT Emergency Response / Stronger Futures). From 2023 I have been on a secondment to the NT Anti-Discrimination Commission. My most notable achievement has been the opportunity to work for 35 plus years with amazing fellow public servants and contractors who deliver the best public policy and services to the Territory public that we could. Of everything I have achieved. I am most proud of was my work in Samoa, developing the NT’s Demerit Point Scheme, and in 2010 obtaining approval to increase the parking infringement penalty from the then $20 to $135 for illegally parking in a disabled parking bay.