Graham Charles MacKinnon CMG ED was an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1956 to 1986.
14 Facts About Graham MacKinnon
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Graham MacKinnon served as a minister in the governments of David Brand and Charles Court.
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Graham MacKinnon attended Bunbury Senior High School, and subsequently worked as a clerk and shop assistant.
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Graham MacKinnon was a Japanese prisoner of war for three years after the Fall of Singapore.
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Graham MacKinnon was president of the local branch of the Returned Services League.
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At the 1956 Legislative Council elections, Graham MacKinnon was elected to the two-member South-West Province, replacing the retiring Les Craig.
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Graham MacKinnon was made deputy chairman of committees in 1958, and served in that position until 1965.
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At the 1965 state election, Graham MacKinnon transferred to the new Lower West Province.
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Graham MacKinnon made an honorary minister after the election, and a few months later was given a substantive position in the ministry, becoming Minister for Health and Minister for Fisheries and Fauna.
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Graham MacKinnon was made Minister for Environmental Protection in December 1970, and held those positions until the Brand government's defeat at the 1971 election.
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Graham MacKinnon returned to the ministry just three years later, appointed Minister for Education, Minister for Cultural Affairs, and Minister for Recreation in the new Court government.
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Graham MacKinnon left parliament at the 1986 election, having returned to his original constituency in 1974.
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Graham MacKinnon had married Mary Theresa Shaw in 1940, with whom he had two sons.
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One of his nephews, Barry Graham MacKinnon, was a Liberal Party MP, and the two served together in parliament from 1977 to 1986.