The Honourable Frank Blevins |
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6th Deputy Premier of South Australia | |
In office 4 Sep 1992 – 14 Dec 1993 |
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Premier | Lynn Arnold |
Preceded by | Don Hopgood |
Succeeded by | Stephen Baker |
Treasurer of South Australia | |
In office 4 Sep 1992 – 14 Dec 1993 |
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Premier | Lynn Arnold |
Preceded by | John Bannon |
Succeeded by | Rob Lucas |
Member of the Legislative Council | |
In office 12 Jul 1975 – 15 Nov 1985 |
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Member of the South Australian Parliament for Member for Whyalla |
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In office 7 Dec 1985 – 10 Dec 1993 |
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Preceded by | Maxwell Brown |
Succeeded by | District Abolished |
Member of the South Australian Parliament for Member for Giles |
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In office 11 Dec 1993 – 10 Oct 1997 |
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Preceded by | New District |
Succeeded by | Lyn Breuer |
Personal details | |
Born |
Frank Trevor Blevins 3 June 1939 Manchester, England |
Died | 7 September 2013 North Adelaide, South Australia |
(aged 74)
Political party | Australian Labor Party (SA) |
Frank Trevor Blevins (3 June 1939 – 7 September 2013) was an Australian politician and 6th Deputy Premier of South Australia from 1992 to 1993 for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. Blevins served in both the Legislative Council and House of Assembly. He was a minister in a number of portfolios. In 1983 in a dispute about the use of volunteers in the ambulance service, as minister for Health, he publicly sided with the St. John Council who managed the ambulance service and two unions, the Ambulance Employees Association and the Miscellaneous Workers Association. John Cornwall, reflects that this position probably damaged his credibility at the time, with both unions and the Labor Party. Blevins was Treasurer of South Australia from 1992 to 1993.
Prior to entering parliament he was a British merchant seaman and then a merchant seaman at Whyalla. He died at his home in 2013.