What is Gordon Scholes?
[[File:Gordon Scholes HD-SC-98-07512.jpg|right|200px]] '''Gordon Glen Denton Scholes''' [[Officer of the Order of Australia|AO]] (7 June 1931 – 9 December 2018) was an Australian politician. He was in the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] for the seat of Corio from 1967 to 1993, representing the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]]. Scholes was [[Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives|Speaker of the House of Representatives]] from 1975 to 1976, and then a minister in the [[Bob Hawke|Hawke Government]] from 1983 to 1987. He was [[Minister for Defence (Australia)|Minister for Defence]] from 1983 to 1984. He later served several other ministerial positions in the Hawke Government. He was born in [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]. Scholes died on 9 December 2018 in [[Geelong]], Victoria, aged 87.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tuckers.com.au/funeral-notices/notice/scholes-gordon-ao |title=Scholes, Gordon AO |access-date=2018-12-14 |archive-date=2018-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215175310/https://www.tuckers.com.au/funeral-notices/notice/scholes-gordon-ao |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Scholes, Gordon}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Speakers of the Australian House of Representatives]] [[Category:Politicians from Melbourne]] {{bio-stub}}