Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia (1975-83)
Date of birth:
21 May 1930.
Professional experience and political career:
- Member of Parliament, 1955-83
- Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee of Australia National University, 1964-66
- Minister for the Army 1966-68; Minister for Education and Science, 1968-69
- Minister for Defence, 1969-71
- Minister for Education and Science, 1971-72
- Leader of the Opposition, 1975
- Chairman, United Nations Hearings on the Role of Transnational Corporations in South Africa, 1985
- Co-Chairman, Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons on South Africa, 1985-86
- Chairman, U.N. Committee on African Commodity Problems, 1989-90
- Consultancy, Nomura Research Institute 1985-96; Board, Investment Co. of America, 1987-93
- ANZ International Board of Advice, 1987-93
- President, CARE International, 1990-95, Vice-President, 1995-99
- Chairman, CARE Australia, 1987-2001
- Published book: Common Ground - issues that should bind and not divide us, 2002
Awards:
- B’nai B’rith International President’s Gold Medal for Humanitarian Services, 1980
- Australian Human Rights Medal, 2000
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, Japan