John Hewson

John Robert Hewson AM ( born October 28, 1946 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian economist and former politician. Among other things, he was Chairman of the Liberal Party of Australia.

Early life

Hewson was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of a conservative technician from the working class. He attended public schools before he graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Sydney. He received a master's degree in Saskatchewan, Canada and a second master, as well as a doctorate in economics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore American. His first wife Margaret Deaves he married in 1967.

After his return to Australia Hewson worked as an economist for the Reserve Bank of Australia. From 1976 to 1983 he was employed by the two liberal finance Phillip Lynch and John Howard. During this time he took to go into politics before himself. He held the economic policies of Malcolm Fraser's government for false and was a supporter of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher. After his divorce Hewson married in 1988 Carolyn Somerville.

Political career

In 1987, Hewson was elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the affluent suburb of Sydney's Wentworth. In September 1988, he was diagnosed by Howard, who lost the federal elections a year earlier, the financial agent of the opposition. In May 1989, after Andrew Peacock Howard had replaced as party chairman, was Hewson supervising Minister of Finance Paul Keating. After Peacocks defeat in the federal elections in 1990, Hewson was elected party leader, although he was previously only three years in Parliament. In the vote, he sat down significantly by 62 votes to 13 against Peter Reith through, which then Vice - party leader was.

Hewsons personal dislike of his competitors Keating made ​​sure that he did not seriously took this. Keating, in turn, could beat advantages due Hewsons lack of political skills. In the federal elections in 1993, Hewson lost the election against Keating, which was previously referred to by the Liberals as " captive ".

Although he had previously given his word of honor, in the case of an election defeat resign from his post, Hewson decided to continue as party leader. Although he succeeded shortly after the election to stand up to John Howard as chairman, but his leadership was no longer protected from now on. Because of doubts about his person called Hewson 1994, a vote of confidence and lost the party leadership to Alexander Downer. In February 1995, he retired from parliament, which he attended for one of the shortest political careers of an Australian party leaders.

After the policy

In the years after his retirement he wrote for the business press and drew attention to issues such as social, economic responsibility and environmental problems. After 1996, he became increasingly critical of Prime Minister John Howard. He was a staunch opponent of participation in the Iraq war - lack of an alternative, he said, however, for a continuation of Howard's reign, because there was a lack of alternatives.

After the turn of the millennium Hewson worked as a professor in his hometown of Sydney.

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