Alan Lind

Background

He was born in Bairnsdale to baker Willie Arthur Lind and Nora Madeline Smith.

Education

He attended state schools locally and then Melbourne High School and Melbourne Teachers" College.

Career

He became a schoolteacher, and from 1942 to 1944 served with the Field Artillery as a gunner in the Middle East and New Guinea. He taught at Mildura from 1945 to 1952, when he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Mildura. He was defeated in 1955 and returned to teaching, becoming principal of the state school at Hallam from 1964 to 1969.

In 1969 he was returned to the Assembly as the member for Dandenong, serving until his retirement in 1979.

Lind died in 1988.

Achievements

• He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1978.