Description:Chapters: John Dawkins, Daryl Williams, Dennis Jensen, George Gear, Peter Shack, Peter Richardson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Sydney "Jo" Dawkins, AO (born 2 March 1947), Australian politician, was Treasurer in the Keating Labor government from December 1991 to December 1993. He is notable for his reforms of tertiary education as Minister for Employment, Education and Training, his period as Treasurer when he attempted to increase taxes in order to balnace the budget and his abrupt exit from politics. Dawkins was born in Perth, Western Australia. He was educated at the University of Western Australia, where he graduated in economics. In 1974, aged 27, Dawkins was elected to the House of Representatives for the marginal seat of Tangney, but he was defeated at the 1975 election which followed the dismissal of the Whitlam government. In 1977 Dawkins returned to the House as member for the safe seat of Fremantle, succeeding Kim Beazley (senior), and defeating his son, Kim Beazley, for the Labor preselection. In 1980 he was promoted to the Opposition front bench and was Shadow Education Minister from 1980 to 1983. He became Minister for Finance following the election of the first Hawke government in 1983. In the second Hawke Ministry (19841987) he was Minister for Trade. From 1987 to 1991 he was Minister for Employment, Education and Training. It was in this position where he brought in a series of reforms of the higher education sector, which included expansion of Australian universities, the forced mergers of universities and colleges of advanced education, and the re-introduction of university fees (abolished by Kim Beazley senior in 1973) in the form of the HECS. This later became known as the Dawkins Revolution and aroused bitter opp...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=163296We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Tangney: John Dawkins, Daryl Williams, Dennis Jensen, George Gear, Peter Shack. To get started finding Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Tangney: John Dawkins, Daryl Williams, Dennis Jensen, George Gear, Peter Shack, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Tangney: John Dawkins, Daryl Williams, Dennis Jensen, George Gear, Peter Shack
Description: Chapters: John Dawkins, Daryl Williams, Dennis Jensen, George Gear, Peter Shack, Peter Richardson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Sydney "Jo" Dawkins, AO (born 2 March 1947), Australian politician, was Treasurer in the Keating Labor government from December 1991 to December 1993. He is notable for his reforms of tertiary education as Minister for Employment, Education and Training, his period as Treasurer when he attempted to increase taxes in order to balnace the budget and his abrupt exit from politics. Dawkins was born in Perth, Western Australia. He was educated at the University of Western Australia, where he graduated in economics. In 1974, aged 27, Dawkins was elected to the House of Representatives for the marginal seat of Tangney, but he was defeated at the 1975 election which followed the dismissal of the Whitlam government. In 1977 Dawkins returned to the House as member for the safe seat of Fremantle, succeeding Kim Beazley (senior), and defeating his son, Kim Beazley, for the Labor preselection. In 1980 he was promoted to the Opposition front bench and was Shadow Education Minister from 1980 to 1983. He became Minister for Finance following the election of the first Hawke government in 1983. In the second Hawke Ministry (19841987) he was Minister for Trade. From 1987 to 1991 he was Minister for Employment, Education and Training. It was in this position where he brought in a series of reforms of the higher education sector, which included expansion of Australian universities, the forced mergers of universities and colleges of advanced education, and the re-introduction of university fees (abolished by Kim Beazley senior in 1973) in the form of the HECS. This later became known as the Dawkins Revolution and aroused bitter opp...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=163296We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Tangney: John Dawkins, Daryl Williams, Dennis Jensen, George Gear, Peter Shack. To get started finding Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Tangney: John Dawkins, Daryl Williams, Dennis Jensen, George Gear, Peter Shack, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.