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Place of Birth: Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
About Jack Ginifer
- John Joseph "Jack" Ginifer (31 August 1927 – 9 July 1982) was an Australian politician. Ginifer was born in Warracknabeal, Victoria to Joseph Ginifer, a Singer sewing machine salesman from England, and Agnes Harper.
- He was educated at schools in Benalla, then undertook teacher training at Melbourne Teachers' College and a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
- He worked as a schoolteacher for more than twenty years from 1945 to 1966, including at Jamieson St Primary School in Warrnambool.Ginifer was active in local government politics, serving as a councillor in the Williamstown City Council (1955–1957) and the Shire of Altona (1960–1969).
- He was also on the state executive of the Labor Party from 1959 to 1966.
- In 1966, Ginifer was elected at a by-election to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as a Labor member for the seat of Grant.
- Electoral redistributions saw his seat renamed Deer Park in 1967 and Keilor in 1976.On 8 April 1982, Ginifer was made a minister in John Cain's first cabinet as Minister for Consumer Affairs and Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, however he resigned these posts and from the parliament a month later on 10 May, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
- He died two months later on 9 July, aged 54.Ginifer railway station in St Albans, J.
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- Ginifer Reserve in Altona North, Jack Ginifer Reserve in Gladstone Park, and Ginifer Court, a cul-de-sac in St Albans, were named after him.
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