References
- 1 2 3 Harrowfield, John Dyson at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 September 2015)
- 1 2 3 "John Dyson Harrowfield". Members of Parliament. Parliament of Victoria . Retrieved 10 August 2025.
John Dyson Harrowfield (born 19 February 1953) is a former Australian politician.
Harrowfield was born in Melbourne to Roy Wilmott Harrowfield and Irene Mary Whitworth. [1] He attended state schools and then Melbourne University, where he received a Bachelor of Commerce. [1] He worked as an accountant and as an economics tutor at Melbourne University and the Swinburne and Chisholm Institutes of Technology. A member of the Labor Party, he was president of the Blackburn North branch from 1974 to 1979. [1]
In 1982 Harrowfield was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Mitcham. [2] He was promoted to the front bench as Minister for Small Business on 16 April 1991 a position he held until 21 January 1992 when he became Minister for Finance. [2] Harrowfield lost his seat in the election on 2 October 1992. [2] From 1992 he was a public policy researcher and consultant.
