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The Honourable
Rex Connor
Minister for Minerals and Energy
In office 19 December 1972 – 14 October 1975
Prime Minister
Gough Whitlam
Preceded by
[First holder]
Succeeded by
Ken Wriedt
Member of the Australian Parliament for Cunningham
In office 30 November 1963 – 22 August 1977
Preceded by
Victor Kearney
Succeeded by
Stewart West
Personal details
Born
(1907-01-26)26 January 1907 Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Died
22 August 1977(1977-08-22) (aged 70) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Political party
Labor
Children
Three sons
Occupation
Car dealer, farmer
Reginald Francis Xavier Connor (26 January 1907 – 22 August 1977) was an Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1963 until he died in 1977, representing the Labor Party. He was the Minister for Minerals and Energy in the Whitlam government from 1972 to 1975.
Connor was born in Wollongong, New South Wales. He served on the Wollongong City Council from 1938 to 1945, and then in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1950 to 1963. After entering federal politics, Connor became an ally of Gough Whitlam, who appointed him to cabinet when Labor won the 1972 election. As Minister for Minerals and Energy, he was noted for his strident economic nationalism. However, Connor is best known as the central figure in the "loans affair", which arose from his attempts to secure petrodollar loans from Middle Eastern financiers. His resignation from cabinet in October 1975 precipitated the constitutional crisis which resulted in Whitlam's dismissal a month later.
Connor died as the sitting member for the Division of Cunningham, precipitating the 1977 Cunningham by-election.
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by-election on 15 October 1977, after the sudden death of the sitting member, RexConnor. He was promoted to the shadow ministry of Bill Hayden in 1980. When the...
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then agreed that Connor's dealings with Khemlani should come to an end. Cairns delivered the news to Connor at Whitlam’s request. Connor was later dismissed...
Labor minister RexConnor, mastermind of the loans scheme, was forced to resign when Khemlani released documents showing that Connor had made misleading...
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