Tony Street

Anthony Austin Street (born 8 February 1926) is a former Australian politician. He served in the House of Representatives from 1966 to 1984, representing the Division of Corangamite for the Liberal Party. He held ministerial office in the Fraser Government, serving as Minister for Labor and Immigration (1975), Employment and Industrial Relations (1975–1978), Industrial Relations (1978–1980), and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1980–1983). His father Geoffrey Street was also a federal government minister.


Tony Street
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office
3 November 1980  11 March 1983
Prime MinisterMalcolm Fraser
Preceded byAndrew Peacock
Succeeded byBill Hayden
Minister for Industrial Relations
In office
5 December 1978  3 November 1980
Prime MinisterMalcolm Fraser
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byAndrew Peacock
Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations
In office
22 December 1975  5 December 1978
Prime MinisterMalcolm Fraser
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byIan Viner (Employment)
Himself (Industrial Relations)
Minister for Labor and Immigration
In office
11 November 1975  22 December 1975
Prime MinisterMalcolm Fraser
Preceded byJim McClelland
Succeeded byHimself
Michael MacKellar (Immigration)
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Corangamite
In office
26 November 1966  18 January 1984
Preceded byDan Mackinnon
Succeeded byStewart McArthur
Personal details
Born
Anthony Austin Street

(1926-02-08) 8 February 1926
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Political partyLiberal
RelationsStreet family
FatherGeoffrey Street
Residence'Eildon', Lismore, Victoria

Early life

Street was born in Melbourne on 8 February 1926, one of two children born to Evora (née Currie) and Geoffrey Street and was raised at the family property 'Eildon', near Lismore, Victoria. His father was elected to federal parliament in 1934 and promoted to the ministry in 1938. He was killed in the 1940 Canberra air disaster, when his son was 14 years old.[1]

Street attended Melbourne Grammar School. After leaving school in 1944 he enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy and served as an able seaman aboard HMAS Norman (M 84), HMAS Queenborough and HMAS Shropshire.[2]

Political career

In 1966 Street was elected as a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Corangamite division in Victoria, Australia. He remained in this position, winning re-election, until he resigned on 18 January 1984.[3]

From 14 September 1971, during the McMahon Ministry, he was Assistant Minister assisting the Minister for Labour and National Service. In the First Fraser Ministry he became the Minister for Labour and Immigration. In the Second Fraser Ministry he served as Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Public Service Matters. During the Third Fraser Ministry he served as minister in several posts, including Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and Minister for Industrial Relations. He served as Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs during the Fourth Fraser Ministry, from 1980 until 1983.[4]

Street supported multilateralism as foreign minister, stating that "in its role as a middle power, Australia needs a foreign policy which encompasses not just bilateral relations but the multilateral diplomacy of international organisations and blocs of countries acting together".[5]

Further details

His prominent public addresses included the 1979 Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture "Class Conflict or Common Goals" and the 1982 Roy Milne Memorial Lecture "Alliances and Foreign Policy Today".[6] Street has held directorships in several companies and served as a Melbourne Cricket Club committee member. He runs a family property at Lismore.[7]

See also

References

  1. Hazlehurst, Cameron (1990). "Street, Geoffrey Austin (1894–1940)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 12.
  2. "The Hon Anthony Austin Street OM 1944". Melbourne Grammar School. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  3. "Ministries and Cabinets". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  4. Appendix 3: Fourth Fraser Ministry, 3 November 1980 to 7 May 1982, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 25 July 2016
  5. Ungerer, Carl (6 November 2013). "Abbott must abandon his Anglosphere nonsense". The Australian. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  6. https://mgs.vic.edu.au/about/our-people/meet-our-alumni/hon-anthony-austin-street
  7. https://mgs.vic.edu.au/about/our-people/meet-our-alumni/hon-anthony-austin-street
Political offices
Preceded by
Jim McClelland
Minister for Labour and Immigration
1975
Succeeded by
Michael MacKellar
Preceded by
Jim McClelland
Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations
1975–1978
Succeeded by
Ian Viner
Preceded by
New title
Minister for Industrial Relations
1978–1980
Succeeded by
Andrew Peacock
Preceded by
Andrew Peacock
Minister for Foreign Affairs
1980–1983
Succeeded by
Bill Hayden
Parliament of Australia
Preceded by
Dan Mackinnon
Member for Corangamite
1966–1984
Succeeded by
Stewart McArthur
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