Max Fox was a member of the Liberal Party and served in the House of Representatives from 1955 to 1974.
15 Facts About Max Fox
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Max Fox was the party's chief whip from 1969 to 1974.
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Max Fox was educated at state schools before becoming a clerk and salesman.
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Max Fox enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in March 1942.
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Max Fox was promoted to corporal in December 1942 and to sergeant in April 1944, receiving his discharge in December 1945.
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Max Fox stood unsuccessfully for the Liberal and Country Party at the 1955 state election, losing to the incumbent Australian Labor Party MP Val Doube in the seat of Oakleigh.
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Max Fox was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1955 federal election, retaining the seat of Henty for the Liberal Party following the retirement of Jo Gullett.
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Max Fox eventually lost his seat to Labor candidate Joan Child at the 1974 election, one of only two Liberal MPs to lose their seats to Labor at the election.
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In 1969, Max Fox was appointed as the Liberal Party's House whip, a position he maintained until his parliamentary defeat under Liberal leaders John Gorton, William McMahon, and Billy Snedden.
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Max Fox chaired the House Select Committee on Naming of Electoral Divisions from 1968 to 1969, the House Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation from 1970 to 1972, and the House Select Committee on Road Safety from 1972 to 1973.
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Max Fox was chairman of the Commonwealth Immigration Planning Council from 1967 to 1973 and a parliamentary representative on the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Trust and Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
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In 1966, following an incident where Australian flags were burned outside The Lodge, Max Fox called for the Flags Act 1953 to be amended to ban defiling the national flag.
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Max Fox was critical of the kangaroo industry, particularly what he described as the "wholesale slaughter" of kangaroo shooting.
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Max Fox lobbied the federal government for a ban on the export of kangaroo products, reportly submitting a total of 54 petitions on the subject across two years.
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Max Fox asked parliamentary questions on behalf of the Jewish community on a number of occasions, requesting intervention by the federal government on behalf of Jews facing antisemitism in Syria and the Soviet Union.