35th Premier of New South Wales Elections: 1976, 1978, 1981, 1984
In office 14 May 1976 – 4 July 1986
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Governor
Sir Roden Cutler (1976–81)
Sir James Rowland (1981–86)
Deputy
Jack Ferguson (1976–84)
Ron Mulock (1984–86)
Preceded by
Sir Eric Willis
Succeeded by
Barrie Unsworth
National President of the Labor Party
In office 8 September 1980 – 3 July 1986
Preceded by
Neil Batt
Succeeded by
Mick Young
Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Bass Hill
In office 17 November 1973 – 4 July 1986
Preceded by
Clarrie Earl
Succeeded by
Michael Owen
Personal details
Born
Neville Kenneth Wran
(1926-10-11)11 October 1926 Paddington, New South Wales, Australia
Died
20 April 2014(2014-04-20) (aged 87) Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Political party
Australian Labor Party
Spouses
Marcia Oliver (m. 1946–76; divorced)
Jill Hickson (m. 1976–2014; his death)
Children
4
Occupation
Lawyer
Nickname
Nifty[1]
Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC (11 October 1926 – 20 April 2014) was an Australian politician who was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 to 1986. He was the national president of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1980[2] to 1986 and chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) from 1986 to 1991.
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^"Joy at ALP summit". The Canberra Times. 9 September 1980. p. 1 – via Trove.
Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC (11 October 1926 – 20 April 2014) was an Australian politician who was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 to 1986...
Wran or WRAN may refer to: NevilleWran, 35th Premier of New South Wales and ALP President Thomas Wran, English-born architectural sculptor in Sydney,...
colloquial term based on NevilleWran’s name with this being known as the "First Wranslide". 1981 New South Wales state election – NevilleWran led Labor to another...
Wran ministry may refer to several ministries of the Government of New South Wales led by NevilleWran: Wran ministry (1976–1978) Wran ministry (1978–1980)...
Hills lost the 1971 and 1973 election after which he was deposed by NevilleWran. Wran narrowly won the 1976 election and remained premier until 1986. He...
Saturday 1 May 1976. The result was a narrow win for the Labor Party under NevilleWran—the party's first in the state in more than a decade. The incumbent Liberal-Country...
of Australia Malcolm Turnbull, and former Premier of New South Wales NevilleWran, were both found in the Panama Papers, due to the pair's former directorship...
Officially opened in December 1985 by the Premier of New South Wales, NevilleWran, the park was the largest in the southern hemisphere. It remained open...
1983, and the following year became a cabinet minister. He served under NevilleWran and Barrie Unsworth until the Labor government was defeated in a landslide...
concluded that a web of criminality connecting Saffron, former NSW Premier NevilleWran, former High Court Justice Lionel Murphy with Saffron allegedly ordering...
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for the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch). He served in NevilleWran's state government as the Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 1976...
state ALP government of NevilleWran—reputedly because Fink's business partner Nathan Spatt had made derogatory comments about Wran's use of a private aircraft...
Health (February–July 1986). After the surprise retirement of Premier NevilleWran in May 1986, he became leader of the NSW Labor Party and thus Premier...
Government Architect's Office, the Tower was officially opened by NSW Premier NevilleWran. The UTS Tower is located at 15 Broadway, Sydney, south of the city's...
government of Premier NevilleWran during the 1984 election campaign, Greiner managed to pick up a seven percent swing and cut the Wran government's previously...
Rupert Murdoch, all charges were thrown out. In the governments led by NevilleWran and (from 1986) Barrie Unsworth, Brereton was Minister for Health 1981–84...
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consecutive term of any Premier. This record has since been overtaken by NevilleWran and Bob Carr. Askin remains the longest-serving Leader of the New South...
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