Gary Johns

Gary Thomas Johns (born 29 August 1952) is a former Australian politician.

Johns was born in Melbourne, Victoria and received a Bachelor of Economics and a M.A. from Monash University. He was elected as the member for Petrie in 1987, and held it for the Australian Labor Party until his defeat in 1996. He served as Assistant Minister for Industrial Relations from December 1993 and Special Minister of State and Vice-President of the Executive Council from March 1994 until the defeat of the government of Keating government in 1996. [cite web
title =Biography for Johns, the Hon. Gary Thomas
publisher =Parliament of Australia
url =http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?id=8010&table=BIOGS
accessdate = 2007-05-27 ]

From 1997 to 2006, he was a senior fellow at the neo-liberal/conservative think tank the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). Within the IPA, he was head of the Non-Government Organisations unit. He is president of the Bennelong Society, a conservative organisation that advocates the removal of welfare provision for Indigenous Australians. In addition, Johns works with a consultancy firm, ACIL Tasman. From 2002-2004 he was an appointed part-time Associate Commissioner of the Commonwealth Productivity Commission, an Australian government policy research and advisory body, [cite web
title =Gary Johns
publisher =ACIL Tasman
url = http://www.aciltasman.com.au/About/Our%20People/johns.html
accessdate = 2008-06-18 ] with the responsibility for an inquiry into the national workers’ compensation and occupational health and safety framework. [cite report
title = Productivity Commission Annual Report 2003-04, Annual Report Series
year = 2004
publisher =Productivity Commission, Canberra
url = http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/8737/annualreport0304.pdf
page = 51
accessdate = 2008-06-18 ]

Since leaving government, his association with conservative bodies and their policies has led many in the ALP to disown him.Fact|date=June 2007

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