| Hon. Roderick Alexander Mackenzie,
OAM 1933-
President: 1985-1988 Legislative Council: 1979-1992 Rod Mackenzie was born in Melbourne in 1933 and educated at schools in Geelong and at the Gordon Institute of Technology. He worked as a plumber, a plumbing inspector, a technical officer with the Commonwealth Department of Science and a plumbing consultant; he was a member of five Australian Antarctic
expeditions.
Mackenzie joined the Australian Labor Party in 1971, established a Geelong regional office and entered the Legislative Council in July 1979. He was a member of the Company Takeovers and State Development Committees between 1979 and 1982. Between April 1982 and September 1983 he was Minister for Forests, Lands and Soldier Settlement and from September 1983 to March 1985 Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands. He became President after the Cain Labor government was re-elected for a second term in 1985. Mackenzie resigned as President in October 1988. He then represented the Geelong Province as an Independent. |