Tony Street

The Honourable
Tony Street
The Honourable Tony Street
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Minister for Foreign Affairs
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Prime Minister	Malcolm Fraser
Preceded by	Andrew Peacock
Succeeded by	Bill Hayden
Minister for Industrial Relations
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Prime Minister	Malcolm Fraser
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	Andrew Peacock
Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations
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Prime Minister	Malcolm Fraser
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Minister for Labor and Immigration
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Prime Minister	Malcolm Fraser
Preceded by	Jim McClelland
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Member of the Australian Parliament; for Corangamite
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Preceded by	Dan Mackinnon
Succeeded by	Stewart McArthur
Personal details
Born	Anthony Austin Street; Script error: No such module "person date".; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Party	Liberal
Relations	Street family
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Anthony Austin Street (8 February 1926 – 25 October 2022) was an Australian politician.^[1] He served in the House of Representatives from 1966 to 1984, representing the Division of Corangamite for the Liberal Party. He held ministerial office in the Fraser government, serving as Minister for Labor and Immigration (1975), Employment and Industrial Relations (1975–1978), Industrial Relations (1978–1980), and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1980–1983). His father Geoffrey Street was also a federal government minister. Street was the last surviving Liberal minister of the first Fraser ministry, as well as the last surviving Assistant Minister of the McMahon government.^[2]^[3]

Early life

Street was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 8 February 1926. He was the son of Australian politician Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street and Evora Street (née Currie). He was raised at the family property Eildon, near Lismore, Victoria. His father was elected to federal parliament in 1934, and he was promoted to the ministry in 1938. At the age of 14, his father was killed in the 1940 Canberra air disaster, along with two other federal cabinet ministers and the head of the army.^[4]

Street attended Melbourne Grammar School. After leaving school in 1944 he enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy and served as an able seaman aboard Template:HMAS, Template:HMAS and Template:HMAS.^[5]

Political career

In 1966 Street was elected as a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Corangamite division in Victoria, Australia. He remained in this position, winning re-election, until he resigned on 18 January 1984.^[6]

From 14 September 1971, during the McMahon Ministry, he was Assistant Minister assisting the Minister for Labour and National Service. In the First Fraser Ministry he became the Minister for Labour and Immigration. In the Second Fraser Ministry he served as Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Public Service Matters. During the Third Fraser Ministry he initially served as Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and then just Minister for Industrial Relations, having lost the Employment part of the portfolio. Swapping portfolios with Andrew Peacock, Street served as Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs during the Fourth Fraser Ministry, from 1980 until 1983.^[7]

As employment minister, Street ordered the Commonwealth Employment Service to discontinue collecting its seasonal unemployment statistics on the grounds that they had become inaccurate. Responsibility was transferred to the Australian Bureau of Statistics which began issuing monthly figures.^[8]

Street supported multilateralism as foreign minister, stating that "in its role as a middle power, Australia needs a foreign policy which encompasses not just bilateral relations but the multilateral diplomacy of international organisations and blocs of countries acting together".^[9]

Street's prominent public addresses included the 1979 Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture "Class Conflict or Common Goals" and the 1982 Roy Milne Memorial Lecture "Alliances and Foreign Policy Today".^[10]