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Esmond Julian Curnow (27 October 1946 - 28 May 2025) was an Australian politician. He was born in
Bendigo Bendigo ( ) is an Australian city in north-central Victoria. The city is located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2022, Bendigo has a popula ...
to factory manager Thomas William Curnow and Esma Jean Cook. He attended
Bendigo High School Bendigo Senior Secondary College (BSSC) is an Australian Education in Australia#Government schools, government-funded co-educational Secondary education, secondary school for Year Eleven, Year 11 and Year Twelve, Year 12 students located in the ...
and became the manager of a
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store. He joined the Labor Party in 1962 and was a member of the Castlemaine and
Moonee Ponds Moonee Ponds is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley Local government ar ...
branches. In 1970, he was elected to the
Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H ...
for Kara Kara, serving until his seat was abolished in 1976. After leaving politics he became a publican, and also the secretary of the Bendigo Trades Hall Council from 1981 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985, he was a training officer with the Trade Union Training Authority, and from 1985 he was a
National Union of Workers The National Union of Workers was an Australian trade union from 1989 to 2019. The union covered workers in various industries and was one of the most powerful unions in the Australian Labor Party and its national Labor Right faction. In 2019, i ...
official. He married Jennifer Diane Freeman on 23 January 1976 and they were divorced in 1984.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Curnow, Esmond 1946 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly