{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2015}} '''John Dyson Harrowfield''' (born 19 February 1953) is a former Australian politician.
Harrowfield was born in Melbourne to Roy Wilmott Harrowfield and Irene Mary Whitworth.<ref name=arch>{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924114500/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1131 |title=Harrowfield, John Dyson |date=24 September 2015}}</ref> He attended state schools and then Melbourne University, where he received a Bachelor of Commerce.<ref name=arch/> He worked as an accountant and as an economics tutor at Melbourne University and the Swinburne and Chisholm Institutes of Technology. A member of the Labor Party, he was president of the Blackburn North branch from 1974 to 1979.<ref name=arch/>
In 1982 Harrowfield was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Mitcham.<ref name=parl>{{Cite Parliament of Victoria Member Profile |name=John Dyson Harrowfield |id=john-dyson-harrowfield |access-date=10 August 2025}}</ref> He was promoted to the front bench as Minister for Small Business on 16 April 1991 a position he held until 21 January 1992 when he became Minister for Finance.<ref name=parl/> Harrowfield lost his seat in the election on 2 October 1992.<ref name=parl/> From 1992 he was a public policy researcher and consultant.
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-vic-la}} {{s-bef|before=George Cox}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Mitcham | years=1982–1992}} {{s-aft|after=Roger Pescott}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
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