Paul Ronald Crittenden is a former ALP

Australian Labor Party

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 politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales

New South Wales

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 Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

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 for the Electoral district of Wyong

Electoral district of Wyong

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 from 1991 to 2007 .

Crittenden was educated Broken Hill

Broken Hill, New South Wales

-Geology:Broken Hill's massive orebody, which formed about 1,800 million years ago, has proved to be among the world's largest silver-lead-zinc mineral deposits. The orebody is shaped like a boomerang plunging into the earth at its ends and outcropping in the centre. The protruding tip of the...

 High School and Barraba

Barraba, New South Wales

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 Central School. He was awarded a BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 from the University of New England

University of New England (Australia)

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 and a M Com

Master of Commerce

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 by the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

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. He was as a mathematics teacher from 1980 to 1983 and worked for the New South Wales Department of Education from 1983 to 1985 and the Department of Minerals and Energy from 1985 to 1991. He is married with two children.