224:, a long-serving state MP. After his marriage in 1938 Lind became a schoolteacher, and saw active service in the Second World War. At the end of the war (1945) he returned to school teaching in Mildura. In 1952 he was elected to the Victorian Parliament's Legislative Assembly. After his electoral defeat in 1955 he returned to teaching. In 1969 he was returned to the Assembly as the member for
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on the Murray River near the New South Wales and South
Australian borders. Alan Lind began his political involvement as a member of the Liberal-Country Party in 1939 in a newly formed branch at Stratford in Gippsland. Sometime between 1939 and 1952 he switched to the Australian Labor Party. In 1952
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There have not been too many people in this world who didn't have any enemies. Allan Alfred
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Carry On (Vic) - an organisation which looked after the dependents of ex-servicemen and women. Lind worked with this group in
Mildura. Years later, in 1971, he founded the branch in Dandenong and
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Wallara Day
Training Centre for the intellectually disabled. Lind was the founding president of the centre and remained its "revered president" for 25 years. He visited the centre every day.
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Alan Lind ... was a gentleman of the highest order. He was never interested in politics or life for personal gain and saw his role as a grassroots representative of people"
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from 1964 to 1969. In 1969 he was elected to the state seat of
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to baker Willie Arthur Lind and Nora
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he never said a bad word about anyone, and no one ever said a bad word about Alan Lind
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IN 1978 Lind was named Citizen of the Year by the Dandenong City Council.
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Dandenong Community Credit Union - Lind was an original founder.
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Doveton High School Council - Lind was an active participant.
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Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
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for three years as a gunner in the Middle East and later in
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559:"Danenong's Favourite Sons:Legend in his own Lifetime".
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