David Crean

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David Mackenzie Crean (born November 21, 1950 in Melbourne , Australia ) is a former Australian Labor Party politician . From 1989 to 2004 he was, with a quarterly break, a member of the parliament of Tasmania and from 1998 to 2004 a member of the government under Jim Bacon .

Career

Crean studied at Monash University until 1976 , where he earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in general medicine and surgery . Before moving into politics in the late 1980s, he worked in Hobart , the capital of Tasmania, as a doctor in a joint practice with the future Federal Minister Brendan Nelson .

politics

In May 1989 Crean ran successfully in the Denison constituency for a seat in the House of Assembly , the lower house of the Tasmanian parliament. He lost this mandate again in the February 1992 election, but in May of the same year he succeeded Buckingham in the Legislative Council , the Tasmanian upper house . He ran for an independent here , but rejoined the Labor Party in August 1993. In the following years he was a member of the shadow cabinet in various positions . After his term of office in 1998 he was able to defend his seat in his constituency, renamed Elwick due to an electoral reform. In September of the same year he was appointed Jim Bacon as head of the Treasury ( English Treasurer ) in the state government of Tasmania, from August 2002 he was additionally the Labor Department. In February 2004, he resigned from government due to kidney disease . He was succeeded by Paul Lennon in the Treasury and Jim Cox in the Department of Labor. For the regular election on May 1, 2004, he also renounced his seat for Elwick in the House of Lords, which went to Terry Martin .

Change to business

From September 2004 Crean took over as Chairman of the Board ( English Chairman ) the management of the state-owned power utility Hydro Tasmania . He resigned from this post due to a dispute with the Tasmanian state government over a reorientation of the company in connection with the CO 2 tax . The Australian federal government had abolished their survey a few days earlier.

As of August 2016, Crean served on the Board of Directors and Vice Chairman of Moonlake Investments. This was founded at the end of 2015 by the Chinese businessman Lu Xianfeng as a holding company to take over Van Diemen's Land Company (VDL), the largest milk producer in Australia. On April 23, 2018, Crean, along with the other non-executive members of the Board, resigned from his post.

As of the end of 2018, Crean is Vice Chairman of the Premier Investments group of companies . He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Linfox Foundation, a charitable foundation of the Fox family.

family

Crean is the youngest of three sons of the politician Frank Crean . The oldest, Stephen , born in 1947, gained national fame when he never returned from skiing at Charlotte Pass in August 1985 . A large-scale search was unsuccessful, and his remains were only found a year and a half later. The middle one, Simon , born in 1949, was, like his father, a member of the federal parliament for many years, held various ministerial posts there and was also chairman of the Labor Party from 2001 to 2003.

Crean was first married to Jill Robson, a daughter of the Liberal MP Neil Robson . Today he is in a relationship with former Senator Sue Mackay .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography of Crean and the rest of the Board of Directors on Premier Investments website, accessed December 21, 2018. (English)
  2. ↑ Selling it like it is. The Age , February 28, 2004, accessed December 27, 2018. (English)
  3. ↑ Complete list of ministers with seats in the upper house on the website of the Tasmanian Parliament, accessed on December 23, 2018.
  4. ^ Tasmanian senator quits federal politics. Sydney Morning Herald , July 30, 2005, accessed December 21, 2018. (English)
  5. ^ The State Government of Tasmania on February 17, 2004 on their website. (English) ( Memento from February 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Election results for Elwick 2004 on the website of the Tasmanian Parliament, accessed on December 23, 2018. (English)
  7. ^ David Crean resigns as chair of Hydro Tasmania. ABC , July 30, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018. (English)
  8. ^ Till Fähnders: Australia abolishes climate tax. FAZ , July 17, 2014, accessed on December 21, 2018.
  9. ↑ Jane Ryan: VDL sale: Chinese businessman Lu Xianfeng revealed as buyer. ABC, November 26, 2015, accessed December 25, 2018. (English)
  10. ↑ Directors of Australia's biggest dairy company quit board over VDL's future direction. ABC, April 24, 2018, accessed December 25, 2018. (English)
  11. ^ The Trustee for the Fox Family Foundation. Entry on the Register of Nonprofits on the Government of Australia website, accessed December 21, 2018. (English)
personal data
SURNAME Crean, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crean, David Mackenzie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Victoria, Australia