Douglas Richard Newton (born 5 July 1950) is an Australian politician.
He was born at
Ivanhoe
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to clerk Cecil James Newton and Gwendaline Clare Bowden. He attended
La Trobe University, where he received a
Bachelor of Science, and later
Hawthorn State College for a
Diploma of Education. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as a research assistant in the Victorian Forest Commission's fire research section, moving to
Melbourne University's
Westernport Bay
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Environmental Study Group from 1975 to 1978. From 1979 to 1982 he taught at Preston East Technical School. On 27 December 1980 he married fellow schoolteacher Helen Frances Eldridge; they had one daughter. A
Labor Party member since 1974, he was vice-president of the
Ashwood branch and directed the campaign for the federal seat of
Chisholm in 1980. In 1982 he was elected to the
Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for
Bennettswood; he was defeated in 1985.
References
1950 births
Living people
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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