Background
MORRISON, William was born on November 3, 1928. Son of Herbert Roy and Mary Morrison.
MORRISON, William was born on November 3, 1928. Son of Herbert Roy and Mary Morrison.
North Sydney Technology High School, University of Sydney, London School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Joined Australian Diplomatic Service 1950. Australian Embassy, Moscow 1952-1954. Economics Relations Branch, Department, of External Affairs 1954-1957.
Australian Embassy, Bangkok, concurrently Liaison Officer United Nations Economics Commission, for Asia, Chairman Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Committee on Soviet Economics Penetration in Asia and Far East 1957-1959.
Australian Embassy, Washington 1959-1961, Moscow 1961-1963. Head, Information and Cultural Relations Branch, Department, of External Affairs 1963-1966.
Deputy High Commissioner to Malaysia 1967-1968. Director Australia-Indonesia Institute since 1989.
Deputy Chairman Jt. Parliament.
Foreign Affairs Committee 1969-1972. Executive Council 1972. Minister for Science 1972-1975, and External Territories 1972-1973.
Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs 1973.
Assistant Defence Minister 1974-1975, Defence Minister June-November 1975. Visiting Fellow Australian National University 1976.
Research fellow University of North.S.W. 1979-1980. Chairman Jt. Parliament. Committee Foreign Affairs and Defence 1983-1984.
Parliament, for Saint George, North.S.W. 1969-1975, 1980-1984.
Married Martha Elizabeth Hessell in 1958.