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About Doug Newton
- Douglas Richard "Doug" Newton (born 5 July 1950) is an Australian politician. He was born at Ivanhoe to clerk Cecil James Newton and Gwendaline Clare Bowden.
- He attended La Trobe University, where he received a Bachelor of Science, and later Hawthorn State College for a Diploma of Education.
- From 1973 to 1975 he worked as a research assistant in the Victorian Forest Commission's fire research section, moving to Melbourne University's Westernport Bay Environmental Study Group from 1975 to 1978.
- From 1979 to 1982 he taught at Preston East Technical School.
- On 27 December 1980 he married fellow schoolteacher Helen Frances Eldridge; they had one daughter.
- A Labor Party member since 1974, he was vice-president of the Ashwood branch and directed the campaign for the federal seat of Chisholm in 1980.
- In 1982 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Bennettswood; he was defeated in 1985.
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