{{Short description|Australian politician (1926–2022)}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Tony Street | image = Tony Street 1974 (cropped).jpg | office = Minister for Foreign Affairs | prime_minister = Malcolm Fraser | predecessor = Andrew Peacock | successor = Bill Hayden | term_start = 3 November 1980 | term_end = 11 March 1983 | office2 = Minister for Industrial Relations | prime_minister2 = Malcolm Fraser | predecessor2 = Himself | successor2 = Andrew Peacock | term_start2 = 5 December 1978 | term_end2 = 3 November 1980 | office3 = Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations | prime_minister3 = Malcolm Fraser | predecessor3 = Himself | successor3 = {{ubl|Ian Viner (Employment)|Himself (Industrial Relations)}} | term_start3 = 22 December 1975 | term_end3 = 5 December 1978 | office4 = Minister for Labor and Immigration | prime_minister4 = Malcolm Fraser | predecessor4 = Jim McClelland | successor4 = {{ubl|Himself|Michael MacKellar (Immigration)}} | term_start4 = 11 November 1975 | term_end4 = 22 December 1975 | constituency_MP5 = Corangamite | parliament5 = Australian | predecessor5 = Dan Mackinnon | successor5 = Stewart McArthur | term_start5 = 26 November 1966 | term_end5 = 18 January 1984 | birth_name = Anthony Austin Street | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1926|2|8}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2022|10|25|1926|02|08}} | death_place = | spouse = | party = Liberal | father = Geoffrey Street | relations = Street family | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Anthony Austin Street''' (8 February 1926 – 25 October 2022) was an Australian politician.<ref>{{cite web | title=Parliamentary Handbook | url=https://handbook.aph.gov.au/parliamentarians/KVM }}</ref> He served in the House of Representatives from 1966 to 1984, representing the Division of Corangamite for the Liberal Party. He held ministerial office in the Fraser government, serving as Minister for Labor and Immigration (1975), Employment and Industrial Relations (1975–1978), Industrial Relations (1978–1980), and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1980–1983). His father Geoffrey Street was also a federal government minister. Street was the last surviving Liberal minister of the first Fraser ministry, as well as the last surviving Assistant Minister of the McMahon government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mgs.vic.edu.au/about/our-people/meet-our-alumni/hon-anthony-austin-street|title=The Honourable Anthony Austin Street|website=Melbourne Grammar School}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Anthony Austin Street | url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1659802 }}</ref>
==Early life== Street was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 8 February 1926. He was the son of Australian politician Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street and Evora Street ({{nee|Currie}}). He was raised at the family property Eildon, near Lismore, Victoria. His father was elected to federal parliament in 1934, and he was promoted to the ministry in 1938. At the age of 14, his father was killed in the 1940 Canberra air disaster, along with two other federal cabinet ministers and the head of the army.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/street-geoffrey-austin-946|title=Street, Geoffrey Austin (1894–1940)|first=Cameron|last=Hazlehurst|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|volume=12|year=1990}}</ref>
Street attended Melbourne Grammar School. After leaving school in 1944 he enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy and served as an able seaman aboard {{HMAS|Norman|M 84}}, {{HMAS|Queenborough}} and {{HMAS|Shropshire}}.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://mgs.vic.edu.au/about/our-people/meet-our-alumni/hon-anthony-austin-street|title=The Hon Anthony Austin Street OM 1944|publisher=Melbourne Grammar School|access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref>
==Political career== In 1966 Street was elected as a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Corangamite division in Victoria, Australia. He remained in this position, winning re-election, until he resigned on 18 January 1984.<ref>"Ministries and Cabinets". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2016.</ref>
From 14 September 1971, during the McMahon Ministry, he was Assistant Minister assisting the Minister for Labour and National Service. In the First Fraser Ministry he became the Minister for Labour and Immigration. In the Second Fraser Ministry he served as Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Public Service Matters. During the Third Fraser Ministry he initially served as Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and then just Minister for Industrial Relations, having lost the Employment part of the portfolio. Swapping portfolios with Andrew Peacock, Street served as Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs during the Fourth Fraser Ministry, from 1980 until 1983.<ref>Appendix 3: Fourth Fraser Ministry, 3 November 1980 to 7 May 1982, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 25 July 2016</ref>
As employment minister, Street ordered the Commonwealth Employment Service to discontinue collecting its seasonal unemployment statistics on the grounds that they had become inaccurate. Responsibility was transferred to the Australian Bureau of Statistics which began issuing monthly figures.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-15/when-politicians-manipulated-employment-data/100368622|title=When politicians manipulated employment data, and journalism was disgraceful|first=Gareth|last=Hutchens|publisher=ABC News|date=15 August 2021|access-date=15 August 2021}}</ref>
Street supported multilateralism as foreign minister, stating that "in its role as a middle power, Australia needs a foreign policy which encompasses not just bilateral relations but the multilateral diplomacy of international organisations and blocs of countries acting together".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/abbott-must-abandon-his-anglosphere-nonsense/news-story/3a660e23c3b4b8111a3a5f71666c02bf|title=Abbott must abandon his Anglosphere nonsense|newspaper=The Australian|date=6 November 2013|first=Carl|last=Ungerer|access-date=9 May 2020}}</ref>
Street's prominent public addresses included the 1979 Alfred Deakin Memorial Lecture "Class Conflict or Common Goals" and the 1982 Roy Milne Memorial Lecture "Alliances and Foreign Policy Today".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mgs.vic.edu.au/about/our-people/meet-our-alumni/hon-anthony-austin-street|title=The Hon Anthony Austin Street | Melbourne Grammar School}}</ref>
==Personal life and death== Street held directorships in several companies and served as a Melbourne Cricket Club committee member. He ran a family property at Lismore.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mgs.vic.edu.au/about/our-people/meet-our-alumni/hon-anthony-austin-street|title=The Hon Anthony Austin Street | Melbourne Grammar School}}</ref>
Street died on 25 October 2022, at the age of 96.<ref>{{cite web |title=STREET, Tony |url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/tributes/notice/condolences/street-tony/5990006/?nk=122796456266a52d9da7e04a8aa83c26-1666862194 |website=Herald Sun |publisher=News Corporation AU |access-date=27 October 2022 |date=27 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Vale Hon Anthony (Tony) Street |url=https://mcc.org.au/whats-on/latest-news/2022/october/vale-hon-anthony-tony-street |access-date=27 October 2022 |work=Melbourne Cricket Club |publisher=Melbourne Cricket Club |date=27 October 2022}}</ref>
==See also== *Street family
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