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New CASA boss Pip Spence. Image: WEN
A changing of the guard at Australia’s aviation safety regulator has seen the national government appoint a departmental deputy secretary as the agency’s first female chief executive.
Pip Spence is due to start as chief executive and director of aviation safety in the next few weeks after working as deputy secretary of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications.
The appointment to what has often been a controversial role is for up to five years.
She will be joined in August by Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, who will head the regulator’s board for a three-year term.