John Mildren

{{Short description|Australian politician (1932–2024)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = John Mildren | honorific_suffix = OAM | image = | constituency_MP = Ballarat | parliament = Australian | majority = | predecessor = Jim Short | successor = Michael Ronaldson | term_start = 18 October 1980 | term_end = 24 March 1990 | birth_date = {{birth date|1932|10|20|df=y}} | birth_place = Colac, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|4|25|1932|10|20|df=y}} | death_place = | spouse = | party = Australian Labor Party | relations = | children = | alma_mater = University of Melbourne <br> Texas A&M University | occupation = Teacher, lecturer | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''John Barry Mildren''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (20 October 1932 – 25 April 2024) was an Australian politician.

== Biography == Born in Colac, Victoria on 20 October 1932, Mildren attended the University of Melbourne and then Texas A&M University. He became a teacher, later rising to senior lecturer and head of department at Ballarat College of Advanced Education. In 1980, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Ballarat, defeating Liberal MP Jim Short. He held the seat until his own defeat in 1990 by Michael Ronaldson.<ref name="Psephos">{{cite web|last=Carr |first=Adam |title=Australian Election Archive |work=Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive |url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia |year=2008 |accessdate=2008-06-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717093439/http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/ |archivedate=17 July 2007 }}</ref>

Mildren was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2018 Australia Day Honours, "for service to the Parliament of Australia, and the community of Ballarat."<ref>{{cite web|title=MILDREN, John Barry|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2000479|website=Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet|accessdate=9 February 2018}}</ref>

Mildren died on the night of 25 April 2024, at the age of 91.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Macdonald |first=Brett |date=2024-04-26 |title=Tributes flow following passing of former Ballarat Federal MP John Mildren |url=https://www.3ba.com.au/local-news/tributes-flow-following-passing-of-former-ballarat-federal-mp-john-mildren/ |access-date=2024-04-26 |website=3BA |language=en-US}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

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