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Don Chipp

The Honourable
Don Chipp
AO
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Leader of the Australian Democrats
In office
9 May 1977 – 18 August 1986
Preceded by Party established
Succeeded by Janine Haines
Minister for Health
In office
11 November 1975 – 22 December 1975
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
Preceded by Doug Everingham
Succeeded by Ralph Hunt
Minister for Repatriation and Compensation
In office
11 November 1975 – 22 December 1975
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
Preceded by John Wheeldon
Succeeded by Kevin Newman
Minister for Social Security
In office
11 November 1975 – 22 December 1975
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
Preceded by John Wheeldon
Succeeded by Margaret Guilfoyle
Minister for Customs and Excise
In office
12 November 1969 – 5 December 1972
Prime Minister John Gorton
William McMahon
Preceded by Malcolm Scott
Succeeded by Gough Whitlam
Minister-in-charge of Tourist Activities
In office
14 December 1966 – 28 February 1968
Prime Minister Harold Holt
John McEwen
John Gorton
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Reg Wright
Minister for Defence
Minister for the Navy
In office
14 December 1966 – 28 February 1968
Prime Minister Harold Holt
John McEwen
John Gorton
Preceded by Fred Chaney
Succeeded by Bert Kelly
Senator for Victoria
In office
1 July 1978 – 18 August 1986
Succeeded by Janet Powell
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Hotham
In office
25 October 1969 – 10 November 1977
Preceded by Constituency created
Succeeded by Roger Johnston
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Higinbotham
In office
10 December 1960 – 25 October 1969
Preceded by Frank Timson
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1925-08-21)21 August 1925
Melbourne, Victoria
Died 28 August 2006(2006-08-28) (aged 81)
Richmond, Victoria
Nationality Australian
Political party Australian Democrats
(after 1977)
Previous Affiliations;
Liberal (before 1960-1977)
Independent (1977)
Occupation Management consultant
Profession Politician

Donald Leslie Chipp, AO (21 August 1925 – 28 August 2006) was an Australian politician, and the inaugural leader of the Australian Democrats.

Donald Leslie Chipp was born in Melbourne and educated at Northcote High School and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in commerce. After playing Australian rules football for Heidelberg in the Victorian Football Association, he played briefly in the (higher-grade) Victorian Football League with the Fitzroy Football Club (playing three games in 1947, for one goal). He also played for Prahran in the VFA and was a member of their 1951 Premiership side. He was also a finalist in the important Stawell Gift annual foot race.

After serving in the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II, Chipp worked as registrar of the Commonwealth Institute of Accountants from 1950 to 1955. In 1955 he was appointed chief executive officer of the Olympic Civic Committee, which was involved in organising the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. After the Games he worked as manager of the Victorian Promotion Committee, and also ran his own management consultancy. From 1958 to 1961 he was a member of the Kew City Council.

Chipp entered federal politics in 1960 as the Liberal member for Higinbotham in Melbourne's southern bayside suburbs. After a redistribution in 1968 he transferred to the less safe seat of Hotham. He was given the Navy and Tourism portfolios by Prime Minister Harold Holt in 1967. After Holt's sudden disappearance in December 1967, Chipp retained those portfolios in the brief interim government of Country Party leader John McEwen, but he was dropped from the ministry by the new Liberal Prime Minister, John Gorton. This was partly because Chipp had supported another candidate, Billy Snedden, in the Liberal leadership ballot, and partly because Chipp did not support a second Royal Commission into the 1964 Voyager disaster – a decision which Gorton felt reflected badly on the Royal Australian Navy. Commonwealth Parliamentary Hansards; Commonwealth Parliamentary debates 16 and 17 May 1967


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