Jeff Lawrence
Male, Person
1952 –
Who is Jeff Lawrence?
Jeff Lawrence is an Australian trade unionist who was the Secretary of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union. Lawrence was Secretary of the LHMU, one of Australia's biggest unions, from 1990 to 2007.
Lawrence was born in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1952. He became an Assistant General Secretary of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union in 1986 and became the General Secretary two years later. The union changed its name two years later. Lawrence became the Vice-President of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party in 2002.
In 2007, Lawrence was chosen to replace Greg Combet as the Secretary of the ACTU, Combet stood down to contest the safe Labor seat of Charlton in the 2007 Federal election. Lawrence resigned from his position with the NSW ALP when he became the Secretary of the ACTU.
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