Joseph Max "Joe" Berinson (born 7 January 1932) is a former Labor

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 member of the Australian House of Representatives

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 from the 1969 election

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 until his defeat by Ross McLean

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 at the 1975 election

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, representing the division of Perth

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, Western Australia

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. He was Minister for the Environment

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 from 14 July 1975 until the dismissal of the Whitlam

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 government on 11 November 1975.

After Berinson's defeat in 1975, he was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1977. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council

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 in 1980, serving as Attorney-General in the Burke

Brian Burke

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 and Dowding

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 governments between 1983 and 1993. He was appointed as a Queen's Counsel

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in 1988.

Berinson retired from the ministry and from the Legislative Council in 1993. He subsequently served as President of the Jewish Community Council of Western Australia between 2001 and 2005.