Background
Morris was born in Sydney and was an alderman on the Newcastle City Council from 1968 to 1974.
Morris was born in Sydney and was an alderman on the Newcastle City Council from 1968 to 1974.
Newcastle Boys’ High School, Australian National University, Canberra, Newcastle Technology College.
He was appointed Minister for Transport in the first Hawke Ministry in March 1983. In December 1984, he assumed the additional portfolio of aviation. In 1987, he became Minister for Resources and then was briefly Minister for Housing and Aged Care in early 1988.
In February 1988, he became Minister for Transport and Communications Support, but was appointed to Cabinet as Minister for Industrial Relations in September 1988.
After the 1990 election he was not re-elected to the ministry, due to the formalisation of Labor"s faction system and the fact that he did not belong to a faction. He did not stand for re-election at the 1998 election.
Matthew Morris, the former member for Charlestown in the New South Wales Parliament, is Morris"s son.
Parliament. dels, to China 1973, India, Pakistan and Iran 1974, Canada and Britain 1975.