Eric Robinson (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
About Eric Robinson (Australian politician)
- Eric Laidlaw Robinson (18 January 1929 – 7 January 1981) was an Australian politician.
- He served as the Member of Parliament for the electoral district of McPherson from 1972 to 1981 as a member of the Liberal Party. Robinson took over his family's sporting goods business and built it up from a single store into a chain along the Queensland coast.
- He was president of the Queensland branch of the Liberal Party in from 1968 to 1973.
- He was elected to the Federal seat of McPherson in the House of Representatives.
- Following Malcolm Fraser's win at the 1975 election, he was appointed Minister for the Capital Territory in the Fraser ministry.
- In February 1976, he was moved to Minister for Post and Telecommunications.
- He was appointed Minister for Finance following Phillip Lynch's standing down in 1977.
- Allegations of malpractice by him were dealt with in the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Matters in Relation to Electoral Redistribution in Queensland 1977, which exonerated him of wrongdoing.
- On 22 February 1979, he resigned from the ministry, stating in a letter to Fraser that he could no longer give him his "unqualified support".
- On 27 February he agreed to return as Minister for Finance—Fraser said that "there were no significant differences" between them.
- He was not reappointed to the ministry following the 1980 election. Robinson died suddenly in 1981, while still in office.
- He was survived by his wife, Narelle, a son and a daughter.
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