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About Tom Burns
Thomas James Burns AO was an Australian politician who led the Labor Party (ALP) in Queensland between 1974 and 1978 and was Deputy Premier of Queensland between 1989 and 1996. He served as the Member for Lytton in the Parliament of Queensland between 1972 and 1996. Burns had previously served as the Federal President of Labor between 1970 and 1973, playing a key role in modernising the party prior to the election of Gough Whitlam as the Prime Minister of Australia in 1972.
Everything about Tom Burns →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, Deputy Premier of Queensland, Leader of the Opposition
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Born
- October 27, 1931
- Died
- June 4, 2007