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Alan Lind
Alan Alfred Campbell Lind AO (20 April 1913 – 5 December 1988) was an Australian politician. His uncle was Sir Albert Eli Lind, a long-serving state MP for Gippsland East, representing the Country Party.
Lind was born in Bairnsdale to baker Willie Arthur Lind and Nora Madeline Smith. He attended Bairnsdale Primary School, Bairnsdale High School and Melbourne High School. After leaving school, he graduated as a teacher from the Melbourne Teachers' College.
On 16 April 1938, at the age of 25, he married Lilian McCann (1914–1972), with whom he had three children. On 28 August 1977, he married his second wife, Marie McKenzie, née Lindemann.
From 1942 to 1944, Lind served for three years in the Middle East as a gunner with the second AIF 2/12th Field Regiment within the 9th Division Artillery, and later in New Guinea.
Lind began his political involvement in 1939, as the secretary of the newly formed branch of the Liberal Country Party at Stratford in Gippsland. From 1945 to 1952, Lind was a teacher in the Victorian country town of Mildura on the Murray River, near the New South Wales and South Australian borders.
Sometime between 1939 and 1952 he switched his allegiance to the Australian Labor Party (ALP). At the 1952 Victorian state election, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of Mildura, as the ALP candidate. He was defeated in the state election of 1955 and returned to teaching. From 1964 to 1969, he was the principal of the primary school at Hallam.
At a 1969 by-election, he won the state seat of Dandenong, which he held until his retirement in 1979. He was chairman of the Parliamentary Public Works Committee, which involved making recommendations relating to the construction of dams, such as at Dartmouth, and the Loy Yang Power Station, extensions to tramlines, and the problem of salinity of the Murray River. He was also the shadow minister for health.
He was held in unusually high esteem by colleagues from all political parties for his unrelenting and dedicated work for his constituents and the State of Victoria. He was honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1978.
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Alan Lind
Alan Alfred Campbell Lind AO (20 April 1913 – 5 December 1988) was an Australian politician. His uncle was Sir Albert Eli Lind, a long-serving state MP for Gippsland East, representing the Country Party.
Lind was born in Bairnsdale to baker Willie Arthur Lind and Nora Madeline Smith. He attended Bairnsdale Primary School, Bairnsdale High School and Melbourne High School. After leaving school, he graduated as a teacher from the Melbourne Teachers' College.
On 16 April 1938, at the age of 25, he married Lilian McCann (1914–1972), with whom he had three children. On 28 August 1977, he married his second wife, Marie McKenzie, née Lindemann.
From 1942 to 1944, Lind served for three years in the Middle East as a gunner with the second AIF 2/12th Field Regiment within the 9th Division Artillery, and later in New Guinea.
Lind began his political involvement in 1939, as the secretary of the newly formed branch of the Liberal Country Party at Stratford in Gippsland. From 1945 to 1952, Lind was a teacher in the Victorian country town of Mildura on the Murray River, near the New South Wales and South Australian borders.
Sometime between 1939 and 1952 he switched his allegiance to the Australian Labor Party (ALP). At the 1952 Victorian state election, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate of Mildura, as the ALP candidate. He was defeated in the state election of 1955 and returned to teaching. From 1964 to 1969, he was the principal of the primary school at Hallam.
At a 1969 by-election, he won the state seat of Dandenong, which he held until his retirement in 1979. He was chairman of the Parliamentary Public Works Committee, which involved making recommendations relating to the construction of dams, such as at Dartmouth, and the Loy Yang Power Station, extensions to tramlines, and the problem of salinity of the Murray River. He was also the shadow minister for health.
He was held in unusually high esteem by colleagues from all political parties for his unrelenting and dedicated work for his constituents and the State of Victoria. He was honoured as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1978.
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