Percy Joske
Politician
1895 – 1981
Who was Percy Joske?
Sir Percy Ernest Joske, CMG was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he attended Wesley College and then the University of Melbourne before being called to the bar in 1917. He served in the military 1943-45, and returned to become a law lecturer at the University of Melbourne, a position he held from 1949 to 1952. He was also an author. In 1951, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Liberal member for the blue-ribbon seat of Balaclava, being elected in the by-election following the resignation of Thomas White. Joske resigned in 1960 to become Judge of the Commonwealth Industrial Court. He was subsequently appointed to the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. He was knighted in 1967, and died in 1981; a year before his death, he published a biography of Sir Robert Menzies.
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- Born
- Oct 5, 1895
Melbourne - Also known as
- Percy Ernest Joske
- Sir Percy Ernest Joske
- Nationality
- Australia
- Education
- University of Melbourne
- Died
- Apr 25, 1981
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on July 23, 2013
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