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Jun 07, 1945 Kadina, South Australia, Australia 78 years old
Australian politician
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About John Olsen
- John Wayne Olsen, AO (born 7 June 1945) is a former politician, diplomat and lobbyist.
- He was Premier of South Australia between 28 November 1996 and 22 October 2001. Olsen was twice the parliamentary leader of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the South Australian House of Assembly, from 1982 to 1990 and again from 1996 to 2001.
- He unsuccessfully led the party to both the 1985 election and 1989 election.
- After the 1989 election he left South Australian parliament to fill a casual vacancy in the Australian Senate.
- He returned to the South Australian parliament in 1992, but was defeated for the Liberal party leadership by Dean Brown. However in 1996, Olsen successfully challenged Brown for the Liberal leadership, and hence became Premier.
- He led the party to a narrow victory at the 1997 election, and remained Premier until 2001.
- He was forced to resign in 2001, after he was found to have misled parliament during the Motorola affair.
- Olsen is the longest-serving Liberal Party of Australia Premier of South Australia and the fourth-longest-serving Leader of the Opposition. After politics Olsen worked as a diplomat and political lobbyist.
- He became the State President of the SA Liberals in June 2017.
