Douglas Richard Newton (born 5 July 1950) is an Australian politician. He was born at

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to clerk Cecil James Newton and Gwendaline Clare Bowden. He attended

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, where he received a

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, and later Hawthorn State College for a

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. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as a research assistant in the Victorian Forest Commission's fire research section, moving to

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's Westernport Bay Environmental Study Group from 1975 to 1978. From 1979 to 1982 he taught at Preston East Technical School. On 27 December 1980 he married fellow schoolteacher Helen Frances Eldridge; they had one daughter. A Labor Party member since 1974, he was vice-president of the Ashwood branch and directed the campaign for the federal seat of Chisholm in 1980. In 1982 he was elected to the

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as the Labor member for Bennettswood; he was defeated in 1985.

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1950 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly {{Australia-Labor-Victoria-MP-stub