Wallace Clyde Fife is a former Australian politician.

Fife was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, and was educated at Gurwood Street public school, Wagga Wagga and Canberra Grammar School

Canberra Grammar School

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. In 1948 he started working in the federal secretariat of the Liberal Party of Australia

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 and in 1949 he joined his family business, Fifes Produce Pty Ltd, in Wagga Wagga. He married Marcia Hargreaves Stanley in May 1952 and they had two daughters and two sons.

Fife was elected as the member for Wagga Wagga

Electoral district of Wagga Wagga

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 in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

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 in 1957. He was Minister for Mines from June 1967 to January 1975, Minister for Conservation from March 1971 to June 1972, Minister for Power from June 1972 to January 1975 and Minister for Transport and Minister for Highways from January 1975 until his retirement from the New South Wales Parliament in October 1975.

Fife won the Australian House of Representatives

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 seat of Farrer

Division of Farrer

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 at the 1975 election

Australian federal election, 1975

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. He was Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs

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 from July 1977 to December 1979, Minister for Education from December 1979 to May 1982 and Minister for Aviation

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 from May 1982 until the defeat of the Fraser

Malcolm Fraser

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 government at the March 1983 election

Australian federal election, 1983

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. Following an electoral distribution that moved Wagga Wagga into the Division of Hume

Division of Hume

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, he stood for and won that seat at the 1984 election. His role in Opposition included a stint as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives between May 1989 and April 1990 since the then Deputy Liberal leader Fred Chaney was still a Senator.
He retired from parliament prior to the 1993 election.

He received an Honorary DLitt

Doctor of Letters

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 from Charles Sturt University

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Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus university located in New South Wales, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory. It has campuses at Bathurst, Canberra, Albury-Wodonga, Dubbo, Goulburn, Orange, Wagga Wagga and Burlington, Ontario...

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