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Frank Trevor Blevins (3 June 1939 – 7 September 2013) was an Australian politician and 6th
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from 1992 to 1993 for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. Blevins served in both the Legislative Council and
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. He was a minister in a number of portfolios. In 1983 in a dispute about the use of volunteers in the ambulance service, as minister for Health, he publicly sided with the St. John Council who managed the
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against two unions, the Ambulance Employees Association and the Miscellaneous Workers Association. John Cornwall, reflects that this position probably damaged his credibility at the time, with both unions and the Labor Party. Blevins was
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from 1992 to 1993. Prior to entering parliament he was a British merchant seaman and then a merchant seaman at Whyalla. He died at his home in 2013. , - , -


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2013 deaths Deaths from cancer in South Australia Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia Deputy Premiers of South Australia 1939 births Politicians from Manchester Treasurers of South Australia {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub