Charles Jones (Australian politician)
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The Honourable Charles Jones AO |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Newcastle |
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In office 22 November 1958 – 4 February 1983 |
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| Preceded by | David Watkins |
| Succeeded by | Allan Morris |
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12 September 1917 Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Died | 7 August 2003 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Doreen Wright |
| Relations | Sam Jones (brother) |
| Occupation | Boilermaker |
Charles Keith Jones AO (12 September 1917 – 7 August 2003) was an Australian politician and government minister.
He was Minister for Transport (19 December 1972 – 12 June 1974) and Minister for Civil Aviation (19 December 1972 – 30 November 1973) in the Second Whitlam Ministry and Minister for Transport (12 June 1974 – 11 November 1975) in the Third Whitlam Ministry.
Commonly known as "Charlie", C. K. Jones was born in Newcastle and was educated at Cooks Hill High School to the equivalent of 7th grade. He then completed an apprenticeship in boilermaking at the BHP steelworks and Newcastle Technical College. He married Doreen Wright in 1939.
He first became politically active as a member of the Boilermakers Union and, subsequently, the various metal trade unions. In the early 1940s he became a union official and a delegate to the Newcastle Trades Hall Council.
He was elected to the Newcastle City Council in 1946, and in 1956, at the age of 39, became the youngest Lord Mayor of Newcastle, a position he held until he was elected to the Division of Newcastle at the 1958 election. He held the seat until he retired in 1983.
In the Federal Australian Labor Party, he was associated with the Left faction and was a close associate of Jim Cairns and Tom Uren. He became the shadow minister for Transport and Civil Aviation following Labor's crushing defeat at the 1966 election.
Charlie Jones was commissioned as a minister with the election of the Whitlam Government in 1972 and served as the Minister for Transport until that government was dismissed on 11 November 1975. Despite Newcastle's status as a Labor bastion (it has been in Labor hands since Federation), Jones is the only person in the seat's history to have been promoted to cabinet.
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