David Hassett, Date of Birth

    

David Hassett

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1947

Profession: politician

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About David Hassett

  • David Lindsay Hassett (born 3 December 1947) is an Australian politician. He was born in Frankston to cabinet maker Edward John Hassett and Daphne Marie Hailwood.
  • After attending local state schools, he became an officer with the Commonwealth Bank in 1966.
  • On 10 December 1968 he married Denise Lesley Smith, with whom he had two children; they would be divorced in 2004, after which Hassett married Vera Elizabeth Jones on 14 July 2005.
  • Hassett was treasurer of the Labor Party's Flinders federal electorate assembly in 1977, and served as secretary of the Mornington party branch from 1978 to 1979.
  • In 1982 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Dromana, but he was defeated in 1985.
  • He then attended Monash University, where he received a Diploma of Education-Primary in 1987, and Deakin University, where he qualified as a mathematics and computing teacher in 1992.
  • From 1992 to 1996 he worked as project coordinator of SkillShare in the City of Springvale.
  • From 1997 to 1998 he was an English teacher at Nova International School in Japan, and since 1999 has worked as a teacher, mainly in special education.
  • From 1998 to 2000 he was again secretary of the Mornington Labor branch, having been its president from 1992 to 1997.

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