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Place of Birth: Leeton, New South Wales, Australia
About John Faulkner
- John Philip Faulkner (born 12 April 1954) is an Australian former politician.
- He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate from 1989 to 2015, representing the state of New South Wales.
- Following a period serving on various Senate Committees and as Deputy Whip, he was a Minister in the Keating Labor government 1993–96.
- Following several years in opposition as a Shadow Minister, he was appointed in 2007 as Vice-President of the Executive Council and Special Minister of State in the First Rudd Government.
- He was Minister for Defence from June 2009 to September 2010.Faulkner sat on the backbench from the 2010 election until his resignation, and is considered by some as an elder statesman.
- On 1 July 2014, he became the Father of the Australian Senate until he resigned on 6 February 2015, with the title passing to Senator Ian Macdonald. Faulkner is a Member of the Board of the Global Panel Foundation – Australasia – an NGO that works behind the scenes in crisis areas around the world.
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