1. Nicholas Frank Hugo Greiner is an Australian politician who served as the 37th Premier of New South Wales from 1988 to 1992.
27 Facts About Nick Greiner
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Nick Greiner was Leader of the New South Wales Division of the Liberal Party from 1983 to 1992 and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 to 1988.
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Nick Greiner served as the Federal President of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2017 to 2020.
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Nick Greiner served as the Consul-General in the United States of America, New York from 2021 to 2023.
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Nick Greiner was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Hungarian father and a Slovak mother.
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Nick Greiner's mother was of half-Jewish ancestry and was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust.
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Nick Greiner was educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview in Sydney's lower North Shore, before graduating with honours in Economics at the University of Sydney.
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Nick Greiner has held the position of Australian chairman of British American Tobacco.
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Nick Greiner defeated sitting member Laurie McGinty for Liberal preselection.
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Nick Greiner successfully defended Ku-ring-gai in the 1981 state election, managing a modest swing in his favour even as the Liberal-National Country Coalition was cut down to only 28 seats in total.
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Nick Greiner was however appointed as Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Housing and Cooperatives.
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However, in 1983, Nick Greiner ousted Dowd in a leadership challenge.
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At the March 1988 election, Nick Greiner led the Coalition to a landslide victory.
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Nick Greiner handed over a number of responsibilities previously associated with the Premier's Department to other ministers.
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Nick Greiner decided to keep the Treasurer's post for himself in order to focus on repairing the State's parlous financial position.
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Nick Greiner criticised then Federal Opposition Leader John Howard's controversial comments on immigration policy during the late 1980s, and was widely respected within the ethnic community.
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Nick Greiner was forced into a minority government, relying on support from four Independent MPs.
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Nick Greiner was only the second head of government at either federal or state level in Australia who was born outside the Commonwealth of Nations, the first being Chris Watson, Prime Minister in 1904.
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The pressure led to Nick Greiner moving that the Assembly refer the matter to ICAC.
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Nick Greiner lodged a case with New South Wales Court of Appeal and argued any such motions would breach natural justice while the appeal was being heard, but Labor and the independents argued that the Parliament was the body which should decide Nick Greiner's future.
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Nick Greiner went on to hold directorships with many Australian public companies.
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In May 2011, Nick Greiner was appointed as Chairman of Infrastructure NSW by the O'Farrell government.
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Nick Greiner served as Chairman of the European Australian Business Council.
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Nick Greiner contributed in many roles to the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and Australian sport.
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Nick Greiner was President of the Bid Company, Director of the Organising Committee, and President of Squash and Soccer.
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Nick Greiner was married to Kathryn Nick Greiner, a former Councillor in the Sydney City Council, and daughter of Sir Bede Callaghan.
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Nick Greiner is currently in a relationship with Carolyn Fletcher.