Damian Drum
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Damian Drum MP |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Murray |
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Assumed office 2 July 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Sharman Stone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the North Western Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In office 30 November 2002 – 31 October 2006 |
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| Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Northern Victoria Region | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In office 25 November 2006 – 26 May 2016 |
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| Minister for Sports and Veterans Affairs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In office 17 March 2014 – 4 December 2014 |
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| Premier | Dennis Napthine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Hugh Delahunty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | John Eren | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Damian Kevin Drum 28 July 1960 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
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| Political party | National Party | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www |
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Australian rules football career
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| Original team(s) | Congupna | ||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||
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| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1982–1989 | Geelong | 63 (34) | |
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| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1999–2001 | Fremantle | 53 (13–40–0) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1989.
3 Coaching statistics correct as of 2001.
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Damian Kevin Drum (born 28 July 1960) is an Australian politician who has represented Murray in the Australian House of Representatives since 2016 as a member of The Nationals.
Drum is the former member for the North-West Region and later the Northern Victoria Region in the Legislative Council of Victoria between 2002 and 2016; and served as Minister for Sports and Veterans Affairs in the Napthine Ministry from March to December 2014.
He is also a former Australian rules footballer and coach, most notably as senior coach of the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League from 1999 to 2001. He turned to a life in politics after being sacked as Fremantle's coach during the 2001 season.
Drum was born in Shepparton. After graduating from high school, he became a carpenter and joiner, running his own shed construction business for several years. At the same time, he embarked on a football career, and was drafted to the then-VFL's Geelong Football Club in 1981. Over the next nine years, he played 63 games for Geelong. While playing football, he also operated his own business selling sheds and garages. He retired from the VFL at the end of 1990, and joined Victorian Football Association club Werribee in 1991.
In 1993, he quit his business and took up a coaching position with Port Melbourne in the VFA, leading the club to a Grand Final loss against his former club Werribee. In 1994, he moved to Sydney, taking up a position as the assistant coach of the Sydney Swans Australian Football League club, under coach and former player Ron Barassi. After five years in this role, Drum was approached by Fremantle, who had not renewed the contract of their first coach, Gerard Neesham. Drum had been one of the most highly anticipated coaching recruits of the season, and some were surprised that he signed with the struggling Dockers. He had been expected to sign with the Collingwood Football Club the previous year, but the deal had fallen through.
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