Barry Cohen
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The Honourable Barry Cohen AM |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Robertson |
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In office 25 October 1969 – 19 February 1990 |
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| Preceded by | William Bridges-Maxwell |
| Succeeded by | Frank Walker |
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3 April 1935 Griffith, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Rae O'Neill |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Religion | Judaism |
Barry Cohen AM (born 3 April 1935) is a former Australian Labor politician. He was a minister in the government of Bob Hawke.
Cohen was born in Griffith, New South Wales and educated at Griffith High School, Sydney Grammar School and North Sydney Technical High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University. He was a businessman before entering politics.
He was the federal member for the seat of Robertson from 1969 until his retirement before the 1990 election. Following the Australian Labor Party's win under Bob Hawke at the 1983 election, he was Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment from 1983 to 1984 and then Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Environment until 1987.
Cohen has written a number of books on political anecdotes, and an autobiography:
In 2015, Cohen and three other former MPs brought a case before the High Court of Australia, purporting that reductions to their retirement allowances and limitations on the number of "domestic return trips per year" under the Members of Parliament (Life Gold Pass) Act 2002 was unconstitutional under S51(xxxi) of the Constitution of Australia. They lost the case in 2016, with the court finding that Parliament was entitled to vary the terms of allowances.
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