Donald Jack Hopgood (born 5 September 1938) is a former South Australian politician who was the 5th

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from 1985 to 1992. Hopgood represented the

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from 1970 to 1977 and Baudin from 1977 to 1993 for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, and was promoted to the Labor frontbench in 1973. Hopgood was moderator of the

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from 1997 to 1999.

Early life

Hopgood was born in 1938 at Prospect, an inner northern suburb of

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. His father worked at

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. His maternal grandfather worked at

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. Hopgood grew up in Prospect and was a member of the Prospect North Methodist Church Sunday school. He went to Prospect Primary School and Adelaide Boys' High School. Hopgood started learning to play jazz trumpet at age 18. He played in jazz bands at church and university. He went to Adelaide Teachers' College on

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and taught at Le Fevre Boys’ Technical High School for three years then moved to Whyalla Technical High School for a year (while still studying), then

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for almost five years. He won a scholarship to study for a PhD from

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after he had been a teacher. He was still studying for his PhD when he was elected to state parliament, so converted the final year to part-time.Murchie 2013, p 98

Early life

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