John Kerin

2023 - 3 - 29

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Hon. John Kerin AO (Mirage News)

Today we mourn the passing of the Honourable John Kerin AO. John served in a number of portfolios, including a stint as a Treasurer, but it was as.

I honour Johnโ€™s commitment and contribution to Australia, and to the Australian Labor Party. These were big challenges, but John approached them all with experience, care, pragmatism, consultation, and an unbreakable sense of humour. And what a profound mark it was.

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'Australia's most reformist agriculture minister': John Kerin, minister ... (9News)

J๏ปฟohn Kerin, a former agriculture minister who served in cabinet in the Hawke and Keating governments, has ...

"It was as Minister for Primary Industries and Energy that he made his greatest mark. "John once wrote, 'politics is like farming; no one is forced to do it, but someone has to'. "While he cut his teeth in the Whitlam government, it was as a minister in the Hawke government that John played his crucial role in reforming agriculture and primary industries in Australia. It was to Australia's lasting fortune that John did both, bringing his deep experience of the land first to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and then to Federal Parliament. And what a profound mark it was," Albanese said in a statement. Murray Watt, who currently holds the portfolio, today remembered Kerin as "Australia's best and most reformist agriculture minister", while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his impact was "profound".

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Statement on the passing of former Treasurer the Hon. John Kerin AO (The National Tribune)

We mourn the passing of John Kerin and honour his vast contribution to our country. John was a former Treasurer and longstanding minister in some of.

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