Editing Gavan O'Connor

{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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| name = Gavan O'Connor
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| image = Gavan O'Connor MP 2005.jpg
| caption = O'Connor in 2005
| constituency_MP = [[Division of Corio|Corio]]
| parliament = Australian
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| predecessor = [[Gordon Scholes]]
| successor = [[Richard Marles]]
| term_start = 13 March 1993
| term_end = 17 October 2007
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| birth_place = [[Colac, Victoria]]
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| nationality = [[Australia]]n
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| party = [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] (1993&ndash;2007) <br /> [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] (2007)
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| occupation = Teacher
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'''Gavan Michael O'Connor''' (born 2 December 1947) is an Australian politician who was an [[Australian Labor Party]] (ALP) member of the [[Australian House of Representatives]] from March 1993 to November 2007, representing the [[Division of Corio]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]].

==Career==

===Education===
He was born in [[Colac, Victoria|Colac]], Victoria, and was educated at [[St Patrick's College, Ballarat]], [[Monash University]] and the [[University of New England, Australia|University of New England]]. He was a farmer, high school teacher, and member of the [[City of Colac|Colac City Council]] before entering Parliament.<ref name=aph>{{cite web
 |title       = Biography for O'Connor, Gavan Michael
 |publisher   = [[Parliament of Australia]]
 |work        = ParlInfo Web
 |url         = http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?id=12707&table=BIOGS
 |accessdate  = 2007-08-25
 |url-status     = dead
 |archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070831190016/http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?ID=12707&TABLE=BIOGS
 |archivedate = 31 August 2007
 |df          = dmy-all
}}</ref>

===Politics===
He contested the [[1984 Corangamite by-election]] but was unsuccessful as it was a safe Liberal seat.  He won the seat of [[Division of Corio|Corio]] at the [[1993 Australian federal election|1993 federal election]].

He became Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition ([[Kim Beazley]]) from 1996 to 1998 and Member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry from October 1998. He was Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries from December 2003 until 2007 when he was dropped in a shadow cabinet reshuffle by incoming leader [[Kevin Rudd]].<ref name=aph/>

O'Connor lost his endorsement as the ALP candidate for Corio to [[Richard Marles]] in March 2007. On 18 October the same year, he announced he would run as an independent at the [[2007 Australian federal election|2007 election]],<ref name=geelongadv>{{cite web
  | title =Gavan O'Connor to run as an independent
  | publisher =[[Geelong Advertiser]]
  | work=Geelong Advertiser website
  | url =http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2007/10/18/7975_news.html
  | accessdate = 2007-10-18 }}</ref> and achieved 12.7 percent of the vote, but lost to Marles.

==References==
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[[Category:1947 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia]]
[[Category:Independent members of the Parliament of Australia]]
[[Category:Members of the Australian House of Representatives]]
[[Category:Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Corio]]
[[Category:Monash University alumni]]
[[Category:University of New England (Australia) alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century Australian farmers]]
[[Category:Australian schoolteachers]]
[[Category:People educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat]]
[[Category:People from Colac, Victoria]]
[[Category:Farmers from Victoria (state)]]
[[Category:Australian MPs 1993–1996]]
[[Category:Australian MPs 1996–1998]]
[[Category:Australian MPs 1998–2001]]
[[Category:Australian MPs 2001–2004]]
[[Category:Australian MPs 2004–2007]]


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