Simon Findlay Crean (born 26 February 1949) is an Australian politician, and current Minister for Trade in the Australian Federal Government. He was leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition at the Federal level, from November 2001 to 2 December 2003. He is the member for the Division of Hotham.
Crean was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He is the son of Frank Crean, a federal Labor MP from 1951 to 1977, who was at separate ti...
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Simon Findlay Crean (born 26 February 1949) is an Australian politician, and current Minister for Trade in the Australian Federal Government. He was leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition at the Federal level, from November 2001 to 2 December 2003. He is the member for the Division of Hotham.
Crean was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He is the son of Frank Crean, a federal Labor MP from 1951 to 1977, who was at separate times Treasurer, Trade Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister in the Gough Whitlam government, and the brother to Dr. David Crean, a former Labor member of the Parliament of Tasmania. He was educated at Middle Park Central School, Melbourne High School and Monash University. Following his graduation from Monash University with degrees in economics and law, Simon Crean worked in a number of trade unions before becoming an official with the Storeman and Packers Union, of which he became General Secretary in 1979.
In 1977, his father Frank Crean...
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