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	Simon Crean
		He is the son of Frank Crean, a federal Labor MP from 1951 to 1977, who was Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Gough Whitlam.
		In 1981 Crean became Vice-President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), and in 1985 he was elected the organisation's President.
		At the 1990 elections, Crean was elected to the House of Representatives for a Melbourne electorate, and immediately entered the Hawke ministry as Minister for Science.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/s/si/simon_crean.html (537 words)

	Interview with Simon Crean
		Simon Crean: Look, the circumstances are that we have called a truce in terms of commenting on the implications of that.
		Simon Crean: Well, it is a pot of money, and it is a pot of money that has been built off the backs of taxing Australians to the hilt.
		Simon Crean: Revenues are not falling as a proportion of GDP.
	seven.com.au /sundaysunrise/politics_040912_crean (2331 words)

	ASU National Net - National Conference addressed by Simon Crean
		When Federal Opposition Leader Simon Crean addressed the ASU's peak body, National Conference, he recognised that the ASU is involved in the strongest growing sector of the workforce.
		Of the ALP party reform agenda, Crean explained that although there are many achievements we are all very proud of, "We can't live in the past, we must modernise!" Part of the ALP renewal was the appearance of many new shadow ministers on the front bench, a younger group to take the party forward.
		Crean referred to the draconian industrial relations agenda of the Howard Government, embodied in 17 pieces of legislation brought forward in Parliament in recent times - all opposed by the ALP.
	www.asu.asn.au /media/general/20021204_crean.html (406 words)

	Crean leaves room to move
		Crean is aware of all this, or he would not have changed tack and told Laurie Oakes on Channel 9's Sunday (March 16) that the ''jury is still out" on legality even as foreign affairs spokesman, Kevin Rudd was still insisting on the ABC's Insiders that military action without a new resolution was "illegal".
		The spectacle of Crean calling for Australian troops to be pulled out but for US ones to remain exposes the contradiction produced by a policy of deferring to anti-war populism while appreciating that only the threat or use of force can effect disarmament.
		Crean has argued that the Second World War was "the consequence the collapse of the League of Nations because countries chose to go outside of the collective authority."
	www.aijac.org.au /resources/aijac-media/dm-afr-180303.html (726 words)

	Interview: Opposition Leader Simon Crean
		CREAN: No, I don't, and it's interesting that the Prime Minister chose to release my letter I wrote to him on Friday suggesting that because of the importance of this issue parliament should be the basis for consideration of it, that he should give a report as to the current state of play.
		CREAN: The provisions that the New South Wales branch have put in train to select are the provisions that their rules allow for by-elections, Laurie, by-election which the Prime Minister can call as early as Monday.
		CREAN: Well, I think he's wrong, Laurie, and I think in the current climate of uncertainty surrounding these corporate collapses the case is not for less regulation, it's for more regulation.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_1126.asp?s=1 (2826 words)

	Suburban Scrawl: Simon Crean Wins Hotham Pre-selection
		Simon will therefore again be the Labor candidate in 2007 for Hotham, the seat he has held since 1990.
		The challenge to Simon's pre-selection was without precedent in the Labor Party, an act of bastardry never previously committed against a former Federal leader in 105 years of Federal Labor.
		Simon's father Frank, 90, was a Minister in the Whitlam Government, rising as high as Deputy Prime Minister.
	sfenech.blogspot.com /2006/03/simon-crean-wins-hotham-pre-selection.html (702 words)

	Simon Crean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1977, his father Frank Crean retired from Federal politics and made the seat of Melbourne Ports vacant.
		Holding defeated Crean in the ALP preselection for Melbourne Ports.
		After Crean's resignation, Beazley and the Labor Party's Treasury spokesperson, Mark Latham, announced that they would contest the Labor leadership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Crean (870 words)

	Interview: Simon Crean
		CREAN: Well, again, so outraged are the Liberals at that claim that we've got another document Laurie, and this is a memorandum signed by Mr Graham Jaeschke on the fourteenth of June, 2000.
		CREAN: I'm saying that what they haven't done is to comply with the law laid down by the Treasurer, spelled out in June of 2000 and they're now trying to pretend that the difference...
		CREAN: Kim Beazley told the story of the experience of his daughter and it struck a chord with the rest of Australia, because so many other people around the country are experiencing the same problem, because this is a government [clears throat] excuse me, that's cut services to public hospitals.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_912.asp?s=1 (2153 words)

	seven.com.au \| Federal Election 04
		Simon Crean: And the reason for that is they had an announcement to give.
		Simon Crean: Peter Costello's approach in terms of taxation is targeted at the top end.
		Simon Crean: Well we would like to do that, but that is a very costly option and we can't afford to do it at the moment.
	seven.com.au /fedelection04/transcripts_041006_costellocrean (2226 words)

	Shadow Treasurer Simon Crean (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Simon Crean: Well, I mean, it's another shocking example of how vulnerable Australians are, particularly when they're working in countries in which the threat is greater.
		Simon Crean: Look, they are different circumstances - we were told, of course, by the Prime Minister that the link was there with terrorism and al-Qaeda and all sorts of things, and that they would be supplied with weapons of mass destruction.
		Simon Crean: It depends on what is available in terms of the budget.
	seven.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /sundaysunrise/politics_040502_crean (2281 words)

	Frank Crean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Crean (born 28 February 1916), Australian politician, was a senior minister in the Australian Labor Party government of Gough Whitlam from 1972 to 1975, and was Deputy Prime Minister for the last six months of the government's term.
		Crean was born Francis Daniel Crean in Hamilton, Victoria, where his father was a bicycle-maker of Irish Catholic descent.
		Crean was unfortunate that his time as Treasurer coincided with the onset of high inflation and rising unemployment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Crean (517 words)

	Australian Labor Party: Simon Crean - Member for Hotham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Simon was born in Melbourne and educated at Melbourne High School and Monash University where he obtained degrees in economics and law.
		He was a member of the governing body of the International Labor Organisation, the Economic Planning and Advisory Council, the Board of Qantas, the Board of the AIDC and the Transport Industry Advisory Council.
		Following the 2001 federal election, Simon was elected unopposed as Leader of the Opposition on 22 November 2001.
	www.alp.org.au /people/vic/crean_simon.php (314 words)

	THE OTHER CHEEK // The Whole Story // Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom: JETSET: Simon Crean Flies Off to Europe for ...
		Simon Crean was seen skanking around the first class cabin in a Qantas flight with his charming wife Carole for the traditional annual European vacation late last week.
		Simon Crean will be advancing Labor's cause in the all important regional development portfolio by visiting Brussels, Geneva, Rome, Paris and of course Solomon Lew's luxury yacht moored off Portofino in Italy.
		Indeed Conroy (blamed by the Creans for many of their woes) would do well to avoid the ritzy boutiques of Paris in case he bumps into the Creans, one of whom might be wearing stilettos and the other who might be carrying one for the express purpose of a quick plunge at a passing rooster.
	andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com /2005/06/jetset-simon-crean-flies-off-to-europe.html (567 words)

	SINews 15-May-2002 ALP - Transcript: Federal Budget - Simon Crean - Interview with Jeremy Cordeaux - Radio 5DN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Simon Crean is the Leader of the Opposition; he's the Leader of the Labor Party.
		CREAN: Yes, and you know what the definitive, no-argument is? You ask him - when he talked about introducing accrual accounting and the fiscal balance - that was what he said all future budgets should be judged by.
		CREAN: We would have inherited what we got, but we were told, we were told that the budget was in surplus last December to the tune of.
	www.supercorp.com.au /SINews/articles/news-2002-05-15_012.htm (2162 words)

	Crean, Simon - Australian Trade Union Archives Biographical entry
		Prior to joining politics, Crean was Junior Vice-President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions [ACTU] from 1981 to 1983, Senior Vice-President of the ACTU from 1983 to 1985 and President from 1985 to 1990.
		Crean also held the positions of Assistant General Secretary, then General Secretary of the Federated Storemen and Packers' Union from 1976 to 1985.
		Simon Crean is currently leader of the Australian Labor Party.
	www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE1120b.htm (171 words)

	Canberra Observed: Simon Crean faces a horrible year ahead - 9 February 2002
		Simon Crean’s team must be dreading the opening of the 40th Federal Parliament at the beginning of a year which promises to be an annus horribilis for the struggling Opposition Labor Party.
		Simon Crean, who is universally acknowledged as an unpopular politician, has to inspire his MPs and the public imagination, and to outmanoeuvre an emboldened John Howard who is likely to continue the "cautious adventurism" which has characterised his first two terms.
		The "unpopular" Crean has to be the opposite, but he has to move quickly because his time at the top may be short-lived.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2002feb9_crean.html (805 words)

	SINews 15-May-2002 ALP - Transcript: Federal Budget - Simon Crean - Interview with Ray Hadley - Radio 2GB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And then all of a sudden, people who are in wheelchairs or as Allan illustrated to the Prime Minister this morning a lady with MS has to actually apply for jobs when there is no hope of her obtaining any sort of employment because of her illness or because of the sickness involved.
		CREAN: Well what it means to them in the immediate sense is higher costs for prescriptions and that means it's a big drain on families and particularly this time of the year when everyone is getting the flu, passing it on to each other.
		CREAN: Yes and they were circumstances because the economy did go into recession and when you are in recession of course you have got to go into deficit.
	www.supercorp.com.au /SINews/articles/news-2002-05-15_011.htm (2397 words)

	John Quiggin: Crean bites the bullet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Simon Crean has gone up a bit in my estimation by announcing his own spill rather than waiting for the Beazley push to organize one.
		Alternatively, if Crean himself initiates a spill by declaring the leadership vacant, there will technically not be a leader and the thing will go straight to the secret ballot and a much more uncertain outcome.
		Simon hasn't added from where he was before; we're just missing the other advantage the ALP had.
	www.johnquiggin.com /archives/001048.html (1575 words)

	LL:PR: SIMON CREAN CONDOLENCE MESSAGE FOR SIEV X
		But it is also significant and admirable that Simon Crean has here recognised the dignity and worth of Australia's forgotten people - the asylum-seekers brutalised in Howard's gulags, and those hundreds who perished on SIEV X and their grieving families", he said.
		Simon Crean with his message to Jannah shows he has the humanity and courage to value people above politics.
		People do care and they will not forget the 146 children, 142 women and 65 men who died in the tragedy of SIEV X. They want to know the truth and who is culpable, either by accident or intent, for the events that caused the death of 353 valuable human beings.
	www.mail-archive.com /leftlink@vicnet.net.au/msg06017.html (621 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Crean Wins Pre-selection Battle
		Labor frontbencher and former leader, Simon Crean, trounced a challenge from the dominant Right faction of the ALP on Monday March 6.
		Simon Crean clearly won the preselection ballot with 196 votes to 88 votes of his challenger.
		Mr Crean went onto say rank-and-file members are sick of the factional warlords and called upon frontbencher, Stephen Conroy, to resign as Leader in the Senate.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-3-7/39016.html (236 words)

	Labor strip tease the making of Crean - OpinionWebDiaryArchive2003 - www.smh.com.au
		Kim Beazley and his backers have forced Simon Crean to walk through the valley of the shadow of death, and the man fears no evil.
		The key to Crean's campaign success is his remark to Kerry O'Brien on the 7.30 Report last night that Caucus members would back him "because they're confident that I've given them an agenda that they can be proud of".
		A Crean win could excite the membership to get back in there and go for it, inspire intense, interested talk about Australia's direction in the pubs and clubs again, and get the Australian people thinking about what they want for themselves and their country because they've got a choice again.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/06/12/1055220697955.html (678 words)

	Simon Crean needs a firmer grip - theage.com.au
		Some of his colleagues argue that Crean needs to have tougher minders in his office willing to stand up to frontbenchers, who all too often are bent on running their own races.
		Crean himself is working on new policy ideas that he believes will give him the momentum to revive his leadership.
		Perhaps Simon Crean should do what John Howard did when he was opposition leader and deliver some landmark speeches outlining Labor's direction, values and policy ideas.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/11/21/1037697804791.html (914 words)

	The Hon Dr Brendan Nelson MP - Media Centre
		Simon Crean has demonstrated that he doesn’t understand the Government’s higher education package – despite being prepared to criticise it at every opportunity.
		It is exactly the system introduced by Simon Crean and the Labor Party when in Government in 1988.
		Simon Crean, Jenny Macklin and the Labor Party are prepared to mislead, distort and scaremonger in this debate.
	www.dest.gov.au /ministers/nelson/jul_03/n412_140703.htm (291 words)

	CANBERRA: Simon Crean's winter of discontent - 13 July 2002
		Factors combining against Crean include his own personality shortcomings, deep divisions between the left and the right wings of the party, and a government which is totally dominant both in the Parliament and the wider electorate.
		Crean's comrades in the party room are left just as cold by their leader's speeches and pep-talks as Australians watching him on television in their lounge rooms.
		Despite Crean's apparent "unelectability", there is a gaping chasm between him and his potential rivals in the party who might step forward if there were a leadership ballot held tomorrow.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2002jul13_alp.html (1054 words)

	Simon Crean’s Gosplan mentality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Crean in particular is still wedded to the discredited ideas of “picking winners”, “promoting sunrise industries”, etc. In other words, “industry policy”.
		Beazley and Crean’s absurd belief in the power of the state, i.e., politicians like themselves, to successfully do the work of the market would be comical if it were not tragic.
		Judging by his past comments, it is Crean’s aim to substitute rational economic policies for the :anarchy of production”; government insights, the needs of vested interests and bureaucratic direction will eliminate the market’s alleged failures.
	www.brookesnews.com /061303crean.html (621 words)

	Poll failure fuels Crean criticism - theage.com.au
		But the result of most concern to Labor MPs was that dissatisfaction with Mr Crean's performance rose from 45 to a record 53 per cent and Mr Howard remained preferred prime minister over Mr Crean by 56 per cent to 21 per cent.
		Meanwhile, Mr Crean moved to strengthen links between Labor MPs and party members by appointing Senate leader John Faulkner to be the point-man for last year's special conference promise to give members greater say in policy development.
		The government claimed Senator Faulkner would be the "trade union minister" but Mr Crean said the job was based on the British Labour Party, where a senior minister is in charge of hearing the concerns of rank-and-file members.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/02/18/1045330607478.html (638 words)

	The Commonwealth Treasurer – Transcript - Debate Between Peter Costello and Simon Crean - National Press Club, ...
		Now Simon will try and tell you that the reason why the economy has been strong in the last eight and half years was all the good work that the Keating Government did before 1983.
		Simon has said on a number of occasions now, this is the highest taxing Government.
		Now the way that Simon tries to manipulate those figures to get the current figures up to something around that level, but it's lower, is he adds in the GST and calls that a Commonwealth tax.
	www.treasurer.gov.au /tsr/content/transcripts/2004/134.asp (5201 words)

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