Gerry Bates
| Gerry Bates | |
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| Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Franklin |
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In office 8 February 1986 – 4 May 1995 |
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Gerard Maxwell Bates 13 September 1950 Lancashire, England, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Tasmanian Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
| Profession | Environmental lawyer, legal academic |
Gerard Maxwell "Gerry" Bates (born 13 September 1950) is an Australian environmental lawyer and academic, and former politician.
Bates was born in Lancashire, England in 1950. He studied at the University of Birmingham where he qualified for a Bachelor of Laws (LLB)(Hons) and a PhD.
Bates went on to become a tutor at the University of Birmingham and a senior lecturer at Birmingham Polytechnic.
He later emigrated to Australia, and was a lecturer in environmental law at the University of Tasmania until Bob Brown convinced him to run for parliament as a Green Independent in 1986 Tasmanian state election.
In 1986, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Franklin as an Independent Green. At the 1989 election, three other Greens were elected in addition to Brown and Bates (Lance Armstrong, Di Hollister and Christine Milne). The Greens held the balance of power, and agreed to give support to the Labor Party to form a minority government when they signed the Labor–Green Accord. In 1992, the five Independent Greens in the House formed the Tasmanian Greens.
Bates resigned from the House of Assembly on 4 May 1995 to contest Queenborough in the Legislative Council, but was unsuccessful.
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