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Barrie Unsworth was born on 16 April, 1934 in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, is an Australian politician. Discover Barrie Unsworth'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 89 years old?

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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 16 April, 1934
Birthday 16 April
Birthplace Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1934

Barrie John Unsworth (born 16 April 1934) is an Australian former politician, representing the Labor Party in the Parliament of New South Wales from 1978 to 1991.

1950

Unsworth was initially an Apprentice Electrical Fitter, then Electrical Fitter, Electrical Testing Officer and subsequently Sales Representative for Sydney County Council from 1950 until 1960.

1953

Unsworth had a brief period of military national service in 1953–1954 in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

1955

In 1955, aged 21 years, he married Pauline Hennessy and they subsequently had one daughter and three sons, one of whom has died; he and his wife have nine grandchildren, and two great grandsons.

1961

In 1961, Unsworth became an organiser of the Electrical Trades Union, and continued to build his career in the labour movement.

1966

He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1966 to attend Harvard University Trade Union Program.

1974

Unsworth was an Australian delegate to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh Study Conference, Oxford University in 1974.

During his career as an elected union official, he was appointed by the Wran Labor NSW Government to a range of positions on government bodies including:

While working in the union movement Unsworth worked for the United States of America in what a historian has called "a discreet relationship".

1978

Unsworth was elected a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1978.

1979

The following year he was elected to the Labor Council of NSW and was its elected Secretary from 1979 to 1984.

1980

While serving in the Legislative Council, Unsworth represented Australia as a delegate at the International Labour Organization (ILO) Worker Participation in Management Conferences held in Geneva (1980) and The Hague (1981).

1982

Immediately following politics, Unsworth had little political involvement with his only public commitment being as Deputy Chairman and then Chairman of the Australian Executive Committee for His Royal Highness Duke of Edinburgh Study Conference (1982–1998).

1984

In the Wran Labor Government, Unsworth was Minister for Transport (1984–1986) and Minister for Health (February–July 1986).

1986

He served as the 36th Premier from July 1986 to March 1988.

Unsworth, the son of Joseph and Olive Unsworth, was born in Dubbo, New South Wales, and educated in Sydney, at Kogarah High School.

On leaving school at age 15, he was apprenticed as an electrical fitter.

After the surprise retirement of Premier Neville Wran in May 1986, he became leader of the NSW Labor Party and thus Premier, and was also Minister for Ethnic Affairs and Minister for State Development.

As Premiers are required by convention to be members of the Legislative Assembly, Brian Bannon, the member for the normally safe Labor seat of Rockdale, resigned to accept a government job as Chairman of the Homebush States Sport Centre Trust, and Unsworth contested the resulting by-election held on 2 August 1986.

He only narrowly won the seat, with a 17.1% dive in the primary vote and hostile independent preferences giving him a margin of just 54 votes.

A by-election for Wran's equally safe seat of Bass Hill was even worse, with a 22.2 per cent drop on the primary vote delivering a 103-vote victory to the Liberal candidate.

1988

Unsworth was Premier for two years until the Labor Party's landslide defeat by the Liberals' Nick Greiner in the 1988 elections.

1991

Unsworth did not contest the 1991 election.

1992

Unsworth was General Manager of 2KY Broadcasters Pty Ltd Racing Radio 1992–2000.

1995

Following the election of the Carr Labor Government in 1995, Unsworth was placed on a number of key government and community bodies, including:

2001

In 2001, he was a recipient of the Centenary Medal.

2003

During 2003 - 2008, Unsworth was a Director of Father Chris Riley's charity, Youth off the Streets, that provides crisis care, refuges, schools, drug programs and alcohol programs to young people in Australia and throughout Asia.

Unsworth has also been a Director of Entherm Pty Ltd (2003–2005), Member of Overseas Trade Authority of New South Wales (1978) and a Director of Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles (2004–2006).

In 2003 and 2004, Unsworth was commissioned by the NSW Government to conduct a formal review of public bus services.

2008

In 2008 he headed a committee that considered the privatisation of the New South Wales' electricity industry.

The committee and Unsworth supported the sale.

Unsworth lives in the Northern Beaches where he has participated in community campaigns to stop overdevelopment in NSW.

He also led the effort to purchase and preserve the former home of Gough Whitlam as a historic site which would be open to the public.