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Alexander Downer

Australian politician
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Also known as: Alexander John Gosse Downer
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A.R.G. Griffiths
Associate Professor of History, Flinders University of South Australia. Author of Contemporary Australia and Beautiful Lies.
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Alexander John Gosse Downer
Born:
September 9, 1951, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (age 73)
Political Affiliation:
Liberal Party of Australia
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Alexander Downer (born September 9, 1951, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) is an Australian Liberal Party politician who led his party for a brief period in 1994–95 and who served as minister of foreign affairs (1996–2007) and as Australia’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom (2014–18). Downer came from a well-connected political family. His father, Sir Alexander Downer, had been a cabinet minister in the government of Sir Robert Menzies and Australia’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom. His grandfather, Sir John Downer, was one of the founding fathers of the Australian Commonwealth and a senator in the Australian Parliament. The ...(100 of 503 words)

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