Dick Adams
Dick Adams
Dick Godfrey Harry Adams, Australian former politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from the 1993 federal election until the 2013 federal election, representing the Division of Lyons in central Tasmania. He was born in Launceston, Tasmania, and was a meat worker, rural worker and an organiser with the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union and the Liquor and Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers' Unionbefore entering politics...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 April 1951
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