Neville Wran

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Neville Kenneth Wran AC CNZM QC (born October 11, 1926 in Paddington , New South Wales , Australia - † April 20, 2014 ) was an Australian politician of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and long-time Prime Minister of New South Wales .

Life

Studies, lawyer and member of parliament

After visiting the Nicholson Street Public School in Balmain and the Fort St Boys' High School graduated Wran a degree in Law at the University of Sydney , which he in 1948 with a Bachelor of Laws graduated. After he had worked as a solicitor in the law firm Bartier, Perry and Purcell between 1951 and 1957 , he took up a position as a barrister after being admitted to the bar in 1957 . In 1968 he was awarded the honorary title of Crown Attorney .

Wran, who became a member of the Australian Labor Party in 1954, became a member of the party's Central Executive Committee in 1967 and was initially a member of the indirectly elected Legislative Council of the New South Wales Parliament between April 1970 and October 1973 . During his membership there he was first deputy chairman of the opposition from April 1971 to February 1972 and then until October 1973 opposition leader in this parliamentary chamber.

In November 1973 he was then elected as a candidate of the ALP for the first time a member of the Legislative Assembly (Legislative Assembly) of New South Wales, and represented in this after several re-elections until July 1986 the constituency of Bass Hill . During his membership in parliament he was leader of the opposition in the legislative assembly from 1973 to 1976.

Prime Minister of New South Wales

After his party's electoral success, Wran succeeded Eric Willis of the Liberal Party of Australia as Prime Minister of New South Wahles on May 14, 1976 . He held this office for over ten years until he was replaced by his fellow party member Barrie Unsworth on July 4, 1986.

During his long term in office, he held several provisional and additional ministerial posts and was inter alia provisional treasury minister between April and May 1977 and briefly provisional minister for public works and ports in his first cabinet in June 1977. Later he was again Acting Minister of the Treasury from May to June 1979 and then Minister of the Treasury between January 1980 and October 1981 and then Minister of Mineral Resources from October 1981 to February 1983.

Wran was also National President of the Australian Labor Party from 1980 to 1986.

Between February 1984 and July 1986 he was Minister of the Arts and at the same time Attorney General for a short time from November and December 1984 . He later served as Minister of Industry and Decentralization and Minister of Small Business and Technology for a little over a month from January and February 1986. Most recently he was Minister for Ethnic Affairs between February and July 1986.

In July 1986, he resigned his office and retired from political life. Instead he became chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and held this position until 1991. At the same time, he was chairman of the Lionel Murphy Foundation, named after the politician and judge Lionel Murphy .

He has received several awards for his services, including the Dutch Order of the Golden Ark (June 1987), the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (October 1987), the Order of Australia (January 1988) and the New Zealand Order of Merit (October 2009) ). In addition, awarded him the University of Sydney in May 1995, an honor - Doctor of Laws .

Background literature

  • Brian Dale: Ascent to Power: Wran and the Media , Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1985

Web links

  • Entry on the homepage of the Parliament of New South Wales (accessed 25 June 2012)
  • Australian States (rulers.org)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former NSW premier Neville Wran dies