Tony Rundle
Anthony " Tony" Maxwell Rundle AO ( born March 5, 1939 in Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia) is an Australian politician of the Liberal Party of Australia and former Prime Minister of Tasmania.
Life
Tony Rundle began his political career as a candidate of the Liberal Party in 1986 with his election as a member of the Assembly House ( House of Assembly ) of Tasmania for the constituency Braddon, where he was in 1989, 1992, 1996 and re-elected in 1998.
Immediately after his entry into Parliament in 1986 Whip the Group of the government before it was 1988-1989 Speaker of the meeting house and thus Parliament President. After the electoral defeat of the Liberal Party in 1989 he was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet and his party was to 1992 Shadow Minister for Tourism and Transport.
After the Liberals won the elections in 1992 back to the meeting house, he was appointed by Prime Minister Ray Groom in February 1992 in the Cabinet and was initially to 1993, Minister of Forests, Mines and of assistive Minister to the Prime Minister for Economic Development. In a cabinet reshuffle, he held from 1993 to 1998 important office of Minister for the Treasury ( Treasurer ) and was also well from 1993 to 1996 Minister of Finance. In addition, he was from 1993 to 1994 Minister of the management in the public sector and at the same time between 1993 and 1995 Minister for Employment and Minister for racing competitions and gambling. Furthermore, he was Secretary of Energy from 1995 to 1996.
On March 18, 1996, he was the successor of Ray Groom finally even Minister of Tasmania and took next to the Office of the Minister for the Treasury and the position as Minister for State Development. After the election defeat of his Liberal Party, he was forced to cede to Jim Bacon of the Australian Labor Party prime minister on 14 September 1998. He remained until 1999, leaders of the opposition.
Shortly before the elections to the House of Assembly in July 2002, he resigned his seat in parliament and retired from politics.
External links and sources
- Biography ( rulers.org )
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- Prime Minister ( Tasmania )
- Member of the Liberal Party of Australia
- Officer of the Order of Australia
- Australian
- Born in 1939
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