Julian John Doyle (26 July 1935 – 16 September 2007) was an
Australian
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lawyer
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,
politician
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and
civil servant
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. He served as a member of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
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The presiding ...
for the seat of Gisborne from 1967 to 1971.
Early life
Doyle was born in
East Melbourne, Victoria
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, the son of Victor and Phyllis Doyle.
Doyle went to school at
Xavier College
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Th ...
in
Melbourne
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, and graduated in law at the
University of Melbourne
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.
Politics
Doyle joined the
Liberal Party
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in 1958, and became president of the
South Yarra
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Branch. He was a Councillor for the
City of Prahran
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from 1965 to 1967 and was a member of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
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The presiding ...
from 1967 to 1971, representing the seat of
Gisborne.
[
Tom Reynolds, his successor in the seat of Gisborne, described the challenge of following in the footsteps of Doyle, in that he was an "illustrious man" with the "obvious talents" of "height, good looks, a law degree, ndbeing able to sing or to play the bass fiddle".]
Legal career
Doyle started his legal career with Arthur Robinson and Co, Melbourne
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, (predecessor of Allens Arthur Robinson
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), from 1958 to 1962. Between 1965 and 1971 he was a sole practitioner in Toorak, and then became a partner with Ellison, Hewison and Whitehead, solicitors, (a predecessor of Minter Ellison
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) in Melbourne, during 1976 and 1977. Between 1989 and 1996 he was a partner of Goulden's Solicitors London
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, predecessor of Jones Day Goulden, based in Brussels
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.[
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Civil Service
Doyle served in a variety of Government positions in Australia and overseas. He was trade Commissioner in London, 1972–1973; Commercial Counsellor for Australian mission to the EEC
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, Brussels
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, 1973–1975; Senior Trade Commissioner, Nairobi
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, 1975–1976; Australian Delegate to the United Nations
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Commission for Trade and Development 1976; Chairman of the Victorian Immigration Advisory Council 1977–1978; COSI See below 1979–1980; Director Victorian Promotion Committee 1980–1981; General manager Victorian Economic Development Corporation 1981–1983; Delegate Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Technology Conference, Paris 1983; and Legal Adviser to Minister of Justice, General Counsel
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to Central Bank of Eritrea
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1998–99.[
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Tobacco Industry
1979–1980; During this year he was Secretary-General of the tobacco industry's International Committee on Smoking Issues (ICOSI) in Brussels with a budget of a million US dollars. This organisation was the cigarette companies first joint main lobbyists and representatives. It had been created in June 1977 at a secret top-level meeting at Shockerwick House (UK) of the main industry executive lobbyists under the code name "Operation Berkshire".
The concept of a fulltime EEC lobby was constructed on an older "Social Acceptability Working Party" (SAWP) of international staff of the companies who were trying to block the activities of anti-smoking organisations. Julian Doyle was chosen by a group of Australian executives who ran the strategy operations for Philip Morris International out of Switzerland and the New York.
Doyle was dismissed in 1980 and replaced by Bryan Simpson
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who had run the Tobacco Institute of Australia
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, and had been newspaper editor, advertising manager and organiser of the Media Council of Australia on behalf of Rupert Murdoch
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's newspaper group, and the tobacco industry in its various attempts to retain cigarette advertising and brand-name sports sponsorship.
Family
Doyle married three times and had five children. He married Ann Clementson in 1964, Kate Baillieu
Katharine Jean Baillieu (born 17 January 1946) is an Australian former journalist.
Early career
Baillieu worked as a journalist and later as a personal assistant to Kerry Packer. In 1977, Baillieu was awarded the Douglas Wilkie Medal by the An ...
in 1983, and Sally Anne Roberts in 1989. He died in Melbourne in 2007.[
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Notes
References
Julian Doyle Parliamentary Biography
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1935 births
2007 deaths
Public servants from Melbourne
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria
20th-century Australian politicians
People from East Melbourne
Politicians from Melbourne
People educated at Xavier College
University of Melbourne alumni