Carl Kirkwood, Date of Birth

    

Carl Kirkwood

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1929

Profession: politician

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Carl Kirkwood

  • Carl William Dunn Kirkwood (born 30 April 1929) is a Scottish-born Australian former politician. He was born in Denny to iron jobbing moulder William Kirkwood and his wife Ellen.
  • He completed his schooling in Scotland and then served in the British Army in Malaya and Singapore from 1946 to 1948.
  • He worked as a jobbing moulder, coming to Australia in 1955.
  • He was soon active both in the Moulders' Union and the Labor Party's Preston branch.
  • In 1970 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Preston.
  • He became spokesman on local government immediately, adding lands from 1976 to 1977 and dropping his frontbench role entirely in 1981.
  • Kirkwood retired in 1988.

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