John Matthew Tripovich (16 December 1907 – 6 August 1976) was an Australian politician. He was born at Coburg to labourer Elias Tripovich and Caroline Grimshaw Sutherland. He attended state schools at

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, and in 1923 began working as a porter on the railway at Glenroy. On 4 June 1929 he married Edna May Alder, with whom he had two children. From 1936 to 1946 he was an assistant station master in the Mallee and the

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. From 1946 he was a country organiser for the Labor Party, becoming assistant state secretary in 1955 and state secretary from 1955 to 1961. In 1960 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for

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. He was briefly Labor leader in the Legislative Council from June to August 1970, and was deputy leader from 1970 to 1976, when he died at Parkville.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tripovich, John 1907 births 1976 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Australian people of Croatian descent 20th-century Australian politicians People from Coburg, Victoria Politicians from Melbourne