Joseph Anstice Rafferty (10 January 1911 – 14 June 2000) was an Australian politician. He was born in Launceston in

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, the son of schoolteacher Col. R. A. Rafferty and Sarah Rose Anne Plummer. He was educated locally at both state and private schools and entered the public service in 1930. On 8 June 1940 he married Miriam Kathleen Richards, with whom he had two sons. He studied at the

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, where he received a

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in 1941. He had moved to

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in 1940, where he studied law at the

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. From 1945 he was personnel manager for

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. A

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member, he was elected to the

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in 1955 as the member for Caulfield. He transferred to Ormond in 1958 and to Glenhuntly in 1967. In 1970 he was appointed Assistant Minister of Education (until 1972) as well as Minister of Labour and Industry. In 1973 he was further appointed Minister for

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, and in 1975 Minister for Federal Affairs. In 1976 he relinquished his previous portfolios to become

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, a position he held until 1978. He was Chief Secretary until his retirement in 1979 to become

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in London. Rafferty died in 2000.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rafferty, Joe 1911 births 2000 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Chief secretaries of Victoria 20th-century Australian politicians Politicians from Launceston, Tasmania University of Tasmania alumni University of Melbourne alumni Ministers for consumer affairs (Victoria) Ministers for labour (Victoria) Ministers for transport infrastructure (Victoria)