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About Edmund Rouse
- Edmund Alexander Rouse (2 February 1926 – 28 July 2002) was an Australian businessman and political figure.
- He spent three decades as the chairman of Tasmanian media company ENT before being embroiled in a political scandal in 1989. As chairman of logging company Gunns he offered $110,000 to Labor MP Jim Cox to cross the floor.
- The bribe was an attempt to prevent the Labor party forming an alliance with the Tasmanian Greens, and to secure the return of the Liberal government of Robin Gray.
- Cox reported the bribe to the police, and Rouse was ultimately given a three-year prison sentence.He died in Melbourne in 2002.
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