Clyde Holding
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The Honourable Clyde Holding |
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| Member of the Victorian Parliament for Richmond |
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In office May 1962 – November 1977 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Towers |
| Succeeded by | Theo Sidiropoulos |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Melbourne Ports |
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In office 10 December 1977 – 31 August 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Frank Crean |
| Succeeded by | Michael Danby |
| Personal details | |
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27 April 1931 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 31 July 2011 (aged 80) Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Sheer (divorced) Judith Crump |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Allan Clyde Holding (27 April 1931 – 31 July 2011) Australian politician, was Leader of the Opposition in Victoria for ten years, and was later a federal minister.
Holding was born in Melbourne and educated at Trinity Grammar School, Victoria and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in law.
Holding joined the Australian Labor Party as a student, and during the Labor Party split of 1954–55, during which he supported the party's federal leader, Dr H.V. Evatt, he was Secretary of the Young Labor organisation in Victoria. As a young lawyer he was a prominent campaigner against the death penalty and in favour of the rights of indigenous Australians. His law firm, Holding, Ryan and Redlich, became one of the leading industrial law firms in Melbourne.
In 1962 Holding was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Richmond, which had previously been held for many years by mostly conservative Catholic Labor Party members, although his immediate predecessor, Frank Crean, was a Presbyterian. Clive Stoneham, who had been ALP leader from 1958 onwards, was no match for the dominant Liberal Premier, Sir Henry Bolte. After Labor suffered its fifth consecutive defeat at the 1967 election, Holding took over from Stoneham as party leader.
Although Holding was in some ways a social radical, he was opposed to the left-wing faction which had taken control of the Victorian Labor Party following the 1955 split, which had seen many right-wing members expelled. In particular, he supported government aid for non-government, including Catholic, schools, which the left bitterly opposed. He was a supporter of the reforming federal Labor leader, Gough Whitlam, who was determined to reform the Victorian branch as a precondition of winning a federal election. He was also a close ally of the ACTU president, Bob Hawke.
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