John Brown (Australian politician)
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The Honourable John Brown AO |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Parramatta |
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In office 10 December 1977 – 19 February 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Philip Ruddock |
| Succeeded by | Paul Elliott |
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19 December 1931 Sydney |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Jan Murray (divorced) |
| Occupation | Meat industrialist |
John Joseph Brown AO (born 19 December 1931) is a retired Australian politician.
Brown was born in the western suburbs of Sydney and was educated at Christian Brothers College, Burwood, St Patrick's College, Strathfield and the University of Sydney. He was one of the founders of Brown and Hatton, a meat distribution company and helped create the Pork and Bacon Marketing Council. He has been an active member of the Meat Industry Employees Union since that time, but was also chairman of the Employers Association for five years. In 1963, he married Jan Murray, who ran a public relation consultancy from 1982 to 1995, and they have five children. He was an alderman on Parramatta Council from 1977 to 1980.
In 1975, Brown entered politics when he won the Australian Labor Party nomination for the seat of Parramatta. He was soundly defeated by Liberal Phillip Ruddock in that year's Liberal landslide. However, a redistribution ahead of the 1977 election split Parramatta almost in half. The western half retained the Parramatta name and became a marginal Labor seat anchored in Labor's heartland of west Sydney. Ruddock transferred to the comfortably safe Liberal Dundas, essentially the eastern half of his old seat. Brown won the reconfigured Parramatta with a modest swing in his favour, becoming only the second Labor member ever to win it.
With the election of Bob Hawke in 1983, he was appointed Minister for Sport, Recreation and Tourism in the First Hawke Ministry, a position he retained until 1988. He was also appointed Minister for Administrative Services until 1984, when he gained the position of Minister assisting the Minister for Defence.
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