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Graham Keith Ernst (born 16 March 1940) is a former Australian trade unionist and politician. He was an
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member of the
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from 1979 to 1992.


Biography

Ernst was born in Yorketown,
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, to Frederick Ernst, a farmer, and Leta Grace Bittner. He attended state schools in Cranbrook and
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before becoming a fitter and turner at the Portland Superphosphate Works, where he was elected as shop steward for the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union (AMWU). He also worked as the manager of a bakery and operated an engineering workshop in Portland. Heavily involved in the union movement, Ernst was founding junior vice-president of the South West Trades and Labour Council and president of the local branch of the AMWU. In 1973 Ernst moved to
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where he became president of the Geelong branch of the AMWU (now renamed the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union) and junior vice-president of the Geelong Trades Hall Council. In 1979 he was elected to the
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as Labor member for Geelong East, moving to Bellarine in 1985 following his old seat's abolition. He was defeated in 1992.


References

  {{DEFAULTSORT:Ernst, Graham 1940 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly