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About Derek Amos
- Derek Godfry Ian Amos (born 5 August 1942) is an Australian politician. He was born at Greenford to carpenter Harold Arthur Edward Amos and Irene Mary.
- He attended Traralgon High School and worked as a painter from 1956.
- In 1962 he married Noela Matters, with whom he had three children.
- A painting contractor from 1963, he also worked as an insurance salesman and driver.
- In 1966, motivated by opposition to the Vietnam War, he joined the Labor Party, becoming treasurer of the Traralgon branch.
- In 1967 he was president of Latrobe Valley Young Labor.
- In 1970 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Morwell.
- He was the party spokesman on state development from 1971 to 1973 and on minerals and energy from 1973 to 1981, and contested the leadership in 1976 without success.
- In 1981 he resigned due to ill health.
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