Ron Wilson (Australian politician)

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Ronald Charles Wilson (born 16 June 1958) is an Australian former politician. He was the Liberal member for Bennettswood in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2002. Wilson was born in Mildura, Victoria to Ronald Ernest Wilson and Jane Davidson Forbes. He attended Catholic schools in Ballarat, before completing year 12 in 1976 at another Catholic school, Mazenod College in Mulgrave. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1980 from Monash University, and had a long history with the Liberal Party. In 1984, Wilson became research assistant to the Deputy President of the Senate. In 1990, Wilson became senior policy advisor to Rod Atkinson, the federal member for Isaacs, and in 1992, moved to the office of the state Minister for Housing and Aged Care and to the Minister for Health in 1996. He had run for the state seat of Mildura unsuccessfully in 1982. In 1999, Wilson was elected as the Liberal member for Bennettswood in the Victorian Parliament. In 2001, he was made Opposition Parliamentary...

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