At the subsequent Norwood by-election, Dunstan's seat was retained by Labor. Don Dunstan : biography 21 September 1926 6 February 1999 In 1972 Dunstan separated from his wife and moved into a small flat in Kent Town, adjacent to Norwood. The Liberals dropped Playford as the state leader, and the younger and more progressive Steele Hall took his place. [123] However, this appointment was not successful; Seaman became involved in an unspecified scandal and made a statement admitting to a "grave impropriety", without elaborating further. In addition to the money received from the Grants Commission, funds were diverted from water-storage schemes in the Adelaide Hills over the advice of engineers, and cash reserves were withdrawn from the two government-owned banks. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in June 1979,[163] but no national parks or gardens were named after him. Famous as: Former Premier of South Australia, political ideology: Australian Labor Party, children: Andrew Dunstan, Bronwen Dunstan, Paul Dunstan, education: St Peter's College, Adelaide, 1948 - University of Adelaide, University of Adelaide, See the events in life of Don Dunstan in Chronological Order. It cleared the Dunstan Government of any error, and did not find that it had known about the Special Branch's activities earlier. A psychic predicted that, due to Dunstan and the state's social liberalisationwhich he saw as sinful[124]God would destroy Adelaide with a tsunami caused by an earthquake. The initial proposal still retained some restrictions, placing more controls over full-blooded Aborigines. During his private school years in Australia, he lived with relatives at Glenelg, a beach-side suburb of Adelaide, instead of boarding at the institution. [132] The legislation, the bedrock of which was laid by Dunstan, was the most reformist in Australia, and in the 1980s, more than 20% of the land was returned to its traditional owners. After receiving the award in 2013, Hicks acknowledged Dunstan's vision for the creation of a film industry in South Australia as being instrumental to his professional development. In the late 1950s, Dunstan became well known for his campaign against the death penalty being imposed on Max Stuart, who was convicted of rape and murder of a small girl, opposing then-Premier Thomas Playford IV over the matter. [89] Environmental activists aired fears of the effects of Monarto on the River Murray, which was already suffering from pollution and salinity problems. [58] Despite winning a 52% majority of the primary vote, and 54% of the two-party preferred count,[58] Labor lost two seats, resulting in a hung parliament: the LCL and Labor each had 19 seats. [95] Dunstan's involvement in such cultural exchanges was also credited with generating strong support for Labor from ethnic and non-Anglo-Saxon immigrant communities,[95] although it was viewed with suspicion by some in the Anglo-Saxon establishment. [2] In his last interview, he decried economic rationalism as the "nonsense of the Chicago school with which we've been beset". Dunstan responded by increasing his attacks on the Playmander, convincing the LCL into watering down the malapportionment. [6], In his youth, influenced by his uncle, former Liberal Lord Mayor of Adelaide Sir Jonathan Cain,[8] Dunstan was a supporter of the conservative Liberal and Country League (LCL) and handed out how-to-vote cards for the party at state elections. The premier angrily denied claims that he was using government funds to build an opulent residence in Malaysia, as well as claims about his sexual lifestyle. 1987-1993: Member of Nelson Mandela Foundation. The latter half of 1967 saw the beginnings of a slight recovery, with unemployment dipping and industrial capacity steadying. [16] He added colour and flair to debate in South Australian politics, changing the existing "gentlemanly" method of conducting parliamentary proceedings. It was only the second time that a Labor government in South Australia had been re-elected for a second term, the first being the early Thomas Price Labor government. His parents had moved to Fiji in 1916 after his father took up a position as manager of the Adelaide Steamship Company. Dunstan was born on 21 September 1926 in Suva, Fiji to Francis Vivian Dunstan and Ida May Dunstan (ne Hill) (Australian parents of Cornish descent). After four consecutive election wins, Dunstan's administration began to falter in 1978 following his dismissal of Police Commissioner Harold Salisbury, as controversy broke out over whether he had improperly interfered with a judicial investigation. Dunstan notes this Don Dunstan was a South Australian politician, best-known as the 35th Premier of South Australia and the 38th Attorney-General of the same state. [124][125], In 1976, the Dunstan Government stepped up its legislative efforts. [173], The Electoral Commission of South Australia's 2012 redistribution included renaming the seat of Norwood to Dunstan which came into existence as of the 2014 election. [180], Since its commencement in 2003, the Adelaide Film Festival has presented The Don Dunstan Award in recognition of outstanding contribution by an individual to the Australian film industry. The LCL held 20 seats, the Liberal Movement two, the Country Party one, and the last remaining with an independent, the nominally Labor Mayor of Port Pirie, Ted Connelly. Even at the height of Playford's power in the 1950s, the LCL won almost no seats in the capital outside of the wealthy eastern crescent and around Holdfast Bay. Two bills were prepared for Legislative Council reform; one to lower the voting age to 18 and introduce universal suffrage, and another to make councillors elected from a single statewide electorate under a system of proportional representation. However, by the time Monarto was eventually scrapped after Dunstan's departure, no less than $20million had been used to buy land, plant trees and formulate development plans,[89] and the failed project is often seen as Dunstan's greatest failure. [53], In the 1966 federal election, Labor suffered a swing against it of 11.8% in South Australia, double the national average. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/don-dunstan-5926.php, Celebrities Who Look Beautiful Even Without Makeup, Famous Role Models You Would Like To Meet, The Top 25 Wrestling Announcers Of All Time, Celebrities Who Are Not In The Limelight Anymore.