David Peter Beddall is a former Australian politician.

Beddall was born in Manchester

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, England and was employed by the Commonwealth Bank and was a self-employed commercial finance consultant before he entered parliament. He was elected as Australian Labor Party

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 member for the seat of Rankin

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 in the Australian House of Representatives

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 at the 1984 election. In April 1990, he was appointed Minister for Small Business

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 and Customs

Minister for Home Affairs (Australia)

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 in the Hawke ministry

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 (Minister for Small Business, Construction and Customs from December 1991). In March 1993 he was appointed Minister for Communications

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 (serving concurrently with Transport and Communications Minister Bob Collins) in the second Keating Ministry

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. In December 1993, he and Collins left the Communications portfolio which was taken by Michael Lee and Beddall replaced Lee as Minister For Resources. He lost this portfolio with the defeat of the Keating

Paul Keating

Paul John Keating was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1991 to 1996. Keating was elected as the federal Labor member for Blaxland in 1969 and came to prominence as the reformist treasurer of the Hawke Labor government, which came to power at the 1983 election...

 government at the 1996 election. He retired from parliament at the 1998 election.