1. Maxwell Stanley Ruddock was a New South Wales politician, Assistant Treasurer and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis.
16 Facts About Max Ruddock
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Max Ruddock was educated at Fort Street Boys High School and later attended the University of Sydney.
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Max Ruddock married Emmie Chappell on 24 August 1940 and had two daughters and a son, Philip Maxwell.
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Max Ruddock was then employed as an economic adviser to the Commonwealth government in 1942 and the Deputy Prices Commissioner from 1942 to 1948, but was forced to return to Sydney, owing to his mother-in-law suffering from cancer.
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Max Ruddock was then appointed as a board director at David Jones Limited from 1948 to 1949, a director of Jones Brothers and became a public accountant from 1956.
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Max Ruddock first entered politics when he stood for and was elected as a Councillor of Hornsby Shire Council in 1954.
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Max Ruddock was elected from a single term as Deputy Shire President from December 1955 to December 1956.
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When he was a Councillor in 1959, Max Ruddock was alerted by his 16-year-old son, Philip, to a legal impediment to the State Government's desire to make the suburb of Westleigh an industrial area, thereby resulting in the preservation of the residential nature of Westleigh.
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Max Ruddock later rose to be Shire President from December 1960 to December 1961.
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Max Ruddock became a member of the new Liberal Party and got involved on a local level.
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Max Ruddock contested and won preselection for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of The Hills, a new seat with a notional Liberal majority, taking in the northern and Liberal voting end of the seat of Blacktown.
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Max Ruddock defeated the sitting Liberal Member for Blacktown, Alfred Dennis, for preselection and Dennis subsequently contested the seat as an Independent Liberal.
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Max Ruddock remained on the backbenches, and stayed as a Hornsby Councillor until 1965.
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Max Ruddock held these ministries until Lewis was replaced as Premier by Sir Eric Willis, who then reappointed him as Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Revenue on 23 January 1976.
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Max Ruddock held this office until the Coalition government lost the 1976 election on 14 May 1976.
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Max Ruddock lived to see his son, Philip, elected to the Australian House of Representatives seat of Parramatta on 22 September 1973.