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Alan Missen was born on 22 July, 1925 in Melbourne, Victoria, is an Australian politician. Discover Alan Missen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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Occupation Lawyer
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 22 July, 1925
Birthday 22 July
Birthplace Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death 1986
Died Place Melbourne
Nationality Australia

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His wife is Mollie Missen (nee Anchen)

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1920

They met in Melbourne where they married in 1920 and settled in the inner eastern Melbourne suburb of Kew.

Alan Missen was educated at Kew Primary School, Box Hill High and matriculated from the selective Melbourne High School.

1925

Alan Joseph Missen (22 July 1925 – 30 March 1986) was an Australian lawyer and politician.

1943

He commenced a law degree at the University of Melbourne in 1943 and immediately became active in student politics.

1944

When the Liberal Party of Australia was formed by Robert Menzies in 1944, Missen, who lived in Menzies' electorate of Kooyong, became a founding member of the Liberal Party and the Melbourne University Liberal Club.

He commented in later years: "What was formed was not a radical party on the model of the British Liberal Party. The members of Parliament constituting its first MPs were the same men who were United Australia Party members immediately before, and they brought with them their conservative ways of thought."

1947

In 1947 he commenced a legal career that was to last for 27 years until his election to Federal Parliament.

He established a successful partnership with Roy Schilling and Bill Impey.

1949

Robert Menzies was elected as the first Liberal Prime Minister of Australia in 1949 on a platform that included outlawing the Communist Party of Australia.

1951

In 1951 the Menzies Government called a referendum to provide the Commonwealth with the constitutional power to implement its policy.

Alan Missen and a small group of other Liberal Party members opposed the referendum proposal.

Missen's opinion piece in The Argus newspaper caused a furore in the Liberal Party.

In a scathing critique of the referendum proposal, he poses the following rhetorical question: "Have we so little faith in our ability to defeat Communism in a free encounter that we must employ totalitarian methods against them?"

The Liberal Party's Victorian Division voted to suspend Missen as vice-president of the Young Liberal and Country Movement.

The referendum proposal was narrowly defeated, a major setback for the Menzies Government.

Missen's defiant position on the Communist referendum caused him to be overlooked for Liberal preselection for the next two decades.

During the period from 1951 until his eventual election to the Senate, Missen was passed over for pre-selection for a Parliamentary seat on several occasions, due in part to his strong position taken on the Communist Party Dissolution Bill.

He contented himself with significant activism at a "grass-roots" level, particularly with younger Liberal Party members and adherents.

1952

Missen also served as chairman of the Liberal Party's State Platform Committee, with a mandate to revise the party's platform for the first time since 1952.

1958

Missen was the Association's president from 1958 to 1960.

Former Labor Senator John Button debated against both and rated Missen as very good "but not half as good as Mollie, who was terrifying – really!"

1962

Missen was engaged to Mollie Anchen, school teacher, in 1962.

They met through the Debaters' Association of Victoria.

1963

The Missens married in 1963.

1969

He was elected to the Victorian State Executive and participated energetically in its committee system and also was an early supporter of the quarterly Checkpoint formed in 1969 to stimulate a greater level of policy debate.

1972

Following the defeat of the Liberal Government in 1972, after 23 consecutive years in office, the Liberal Party in Victoria underwent substantial changes.

Missen was elected vice-president of the Victorian Division on the same ticket as the party's new president Peter Hardie.

Another Missen ally, Billie Snedden, was elected Federal Opposition Leader following the Liberal Party's electoral loss in December 1972.

1973

In 1973 Missen was elected by the Liberal Party's Victorian State Executive to a winnable position on the party's Senate ticket for the following Federal election.

Journalist Alan Trengove speculated: "Whether Alan Missen has learned the art of political compromise or whether the Liberal Party has simply come to terms with his brand of liberalism only time Will Tell."

1974

He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as a Senator for Victoria from 1974 until his death in 1986.

He was known as a leader of the party's social liberal wing.

Missen's parents were Clifford Missen, labourer, and Violet (née Bartley).

Clifford hailed from Lismore in western Victoria and Violet from Chiltern in northern Victoria.

In 1974, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Liberal Senator for Victoria.

On 13 August 1974 he delivered his maiden speech to the Senate.

1975

The following year Missen found himself at the centre of the 1975 constitutional crisis.

In March 1975 Malcolm Fraser had replaced Billie Snedden as leader of the Liberal Opposition.

In October 1975 Fraser moved to defer supply to the Whitlam Government on the basis of the Government's economic mismanagement.

Missen had serious misgivings about denying supply to an elected Government.