Donald Gordon McGauchie (born ) is an Australian farmer and businessman. He was educated at

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. He has a farming background, and is a senior partner of C & E McGauchie, Terrick West Estate, a

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in the Loddon Valley area of northern

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. From 1994 to 1998 was president of the

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. McGauchie had strong links to the

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and then

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John Howard John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. His eleven-year tenure as prime min ...

. During Howard's term of office, McGauchie accepted several advisory positions with the government, serving on the Prime Minister's Supermarket to Asia Council, the Foreign Affairs Council and the Trade Policy Advisory Council. He was a member of the board of the

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from 2001 to 2011. In 2004 he succeeded Bob Mansfield as

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Corporation. After failing to meet expectations of large Telstra shareholders, McGauchie resigned from the position in May 2009, and was replaced by

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. He also joined the board of Nufarm Limited in 2003 and has been chairman since 2010. McGauchie won the

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Leader of the Year award in 2001. In 2004, he was appointed an

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for services to the Australian grain and wool industries, and for his economic reform of Australian agricultural commodity handling and marketing.

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