Ambassadors

The Hon John Cain

Education

• State Primary Schools
• Northcote High School
• Scotch College
• Melbourne University – LLB, 1952

Law Practice and Legal Profession

• Admitted Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court, Victoria and High Court of Australia, 1954
• Employee Solicitor 1954 - 1957
• Managed own law practice 1957 – 1976
• Melbourne Law Institute of Victoria Council 1967 – 1976
• Treasurer Council 1970 – 1971
• Chairman of Council 1971 – 1972
• President of Institute 1972 – 1973
• Member, Law Council of Australia Executive 1973 – 1976
• Member, Australian Law Reform Commission 1975 – 1977
• Member and Conciliator of the Victorian Solicitors’ Board under the Legal Profession Practice Act 1993 – 1996

Party Political Involvement

• Joined ALP 1948
• Held various offices in Branches and Campaign Committees, including Campaign Secretary and Chairman of State and Federal Campaign Committees
• Member of Advisory Council following Federal intervention in 1970
• Member of Administrative Committee, Victorian ALP, 1971 – 1978
• Junior Vice President of the Victorian Branch, 1973 – 1975

Elected Public Office

• Member of the Legislative Assembly, Bundoora District, March 1976 – October 1992
• Shadow Minister for Public Works, 1976 – 1977
• Shadow Minister for Planning, 1977 – 1981
• Shadow Attorney General, 1979 – 1981
• Leader of the Opposition, September 1981 – April 1982
• Premier of Victoria, April 1982 – August 1990
• Attorney General, April 182 – September 1983
• Minister Responsible for Women’s Affairs, April 1982 – August 1990
• Minister for Ethnic Affairs, March 1990 – August 1990

Academic Office

• Professorial Associate, Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne, since May 1991

Other

• Member of Observer team from the Commonwealth Secretariat – South Africa’s first national election – April 1994
• Member Trust, National Tennis Centre (Flinders Park) 1990 – 1994
• Trustee, Melbourne Cricket Ground 1982 – 1998, 1999 – present
• Member, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law Academic Advisory Board, 2004 – present
• Chairman, Hume Global Village Learning Advisory Board, 2004 – present
• Member, Library Board of Victoria, 2005 – present
• President, Library Board of Victoria, 2006 – present
• Member, Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust, 2005 – present
• President, Melbourne University Graduate Union, 2005 – present

Publications

• ‘John Cain’s Years: Power, Parties and Politics’, Melbourne University Press, 1994
• ‘On with the Show’, Prowling Tiger Press, 1998
• ‘Off Course’ from public place to marketplace at Melbourne University (with John Hewitt), Scribe Publications, 2004

Personal

• Married Nancye, July 1955. Three children – two sons, one daughter. Ten grandchildren.

Recreation

• Reading, running, swimming, tennis and bike riding.