Ray Groom

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Raymond "Ray" John Groom (born September 3, 1944 in Elsternwick , Victoria ) is a politician of the Liberal Party of Australia , who was a member of the Australian House of Representatives and between 1992 and 1996 Prime Minister of Tasmania .

Life

Lawyer, Member of Parliament and Federal Minister

Groom graduated after attending the Burnie High School to study law at the University of Melbourne , he with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) graduated. In addition to his studies, he played Australian football for the Melbourne Club , a club of the then Victorian Football League, between 1963 and 1968 . After completing his studies, he worked as a barrister and solicitor in Melbourne between 1968 and 1969 , before becoming a partner at the law firm Crisp, Hudson and Mann in Burnie in 1974 .

In the 1975 elections, Groom was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia to be a member of the Australian House of Representatives and represented the constituency of Braddon in this until the 1984 general election . During his membership in parliament, he was initially a member of the Road Safety Committee from 1977 to 1978.

In 1977, Groom was promoted from Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Fraser, to Federal Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development, and Minister assisting the Federal Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. . As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he became Federal Minister for Housing and Construction in 1978 and held this ministerial office until 1980.

After leaving the government, he was again a member of the Committee on Road Safety from 1980 to 1983, as well as the Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs . Most recently, from 1983 to 1984 he was a member of the Committees for Code of Ethics as well as for Foreign Affairs and Defense.

MP and Minister in Tasmania

In 1984 Groom resigned from the Australian House of Representatives and became Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Tasmania, Robin Gray .

On February 8, 1986, he was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the Denison constituency for the first time as a member of the House of Representatives (Tasmanian House of Assembly) , the lower house of the Tasmanian parliament, and was a member of this until his resignation on March 9, 2001.

Shortly after the election, Groom was appointed by Prime Minister Robin Gray on February 19, 1986 as Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister (Minister assisting the Premier) for the first time in a Tasmanian government and was a member of this until November 1, 1988. At the same time he was also Minister for Sea Fisheries from February 19, 1986 to November 1, 1988 and at the same time Minister for Mines and Minister from February 19, 1986 to the end of Gray's term of office on June 29, 1989 for Forestry (Minister for Forestry) .

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he was on 23 November 1987 to 29 June 1989, Minister for Multicultural Affairs (Minister for multicultural affairs) . Most recently he acted from November 1, 1988 to June 29, 1989 also as Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Energy (Minister for Energy) .

prime minister

On February 17, 1992 Groom became Prime Minister of Tasmania and held this office for four years until March 18, 1996. He replaced Michael Field from the Australian Labor Party . In the previous parliamentary election of February 1, 1992, the Liberal Party was able to achieve 154,337 votes (54.11 percent) and improve its result by 7.19 percentage points, so that it had an absolute majority in the House of Assembly with 19 seats. Labor Party Fields, which had previously ruled in a loose alliance with the Tasmanian Greens , lost 5.86 percentage points and won 82,296 votes (28.85 percent), thereby losing two of its 13 seats.

In his cabinet he was a day from 17 to 18 February 1992 Attorney General (Attorney General) and served also of 18 February 1992 to 2 February 1993 as Minister of Economic Development (Minister for Economic Development) and at the same time as Finance Minister (Treasurer) .

In a cabinet reshuffle carried out on February 2, 1993, Groom also took over the post of Mining Minister, which he held until the end of his term on March 18, 1996. In addition, from February 2, 1993 to March 18, 1996, he was also Minister for Forestry and Minister for State Development and Resources .

After another government reshuffle, Groom was also Minister for Small Business from December 4, 1995 to March 18, 1996 and also Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.

After his party received only 121,391 votes (41.2 percent) in the parliamentary elections of February 24, 1996 and thus lost 12.91 percentage points and lost three of their 19 seats, Groom announced his resignation on March 18, 1996, as he was not a minority government wanted to form. The opposition Labor Party under Michael Field, despite gaining 11.62 percentage points with 119,260 votes (40.47 percent) with 14 seats in the 35-member parliament, clearly missed the absolute majority and did not form a coalition with the Tasmanian Greens.

Minister in the Rundle government and withdrawal from politics

Thereupon the previous Finance Minister Tony Rundle formed a minority government of the Liberal Party on March 18, 1996, which remained in office until after the defeat in the parliamentary elections on September 14, 1998.

In the Rundles government Groom took over from March 21, 1996 to September 14, 1998, the office of Attorney General and Minister of Justice (Minister for Justice) . At the same time he acted from March 21, 1996 to September 14, 1998 as Minister for Workplace Standards and also Minister for Tourism .

On August 9, 2001, Groom resigned from the House of Assembly and retired from political life.

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personal data
SURNAME Groom, Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groom, Raymond John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsternwick , Victoria