Gareth Evans (politician)

Gareth John Evans AC, QC , is an Australian international policymaker and former politician. An academic lawyer and barrister by profession, he represented the Australian Labor Party in the Senate and House of Representatives from 1978 to 1999, serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments from 1983 to 1996 as AttorneyGeneral, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and most prominently, from 1988 to 1996, as Foreign Minister. He was Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1993 to 1996, Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 1998, and remains one of the two longestserving federal Cabinet Ministers in Labor Party history.

Evans was born in Melbourne, Victoria. His father was a tram driver, and his mother, who had been a wartime Woolworths store manager, ran a small babywear business from home. He was educated at Hawthorn West Central School Melbourne High School, where he was school captain the University of Melbourne where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws with FirstClass Honours, sharing the Supreme Court Prize, was a Member of the Melbourne University Law Review and was President of the Students Representative Council from 1964 to 1966 and Magdalen College, Oxford , where he attended on a Shell scholarship and graduated with a Master of Arts with FirstClass Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics .

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