Askin was born Leon Aschkenasy into a Jewish family in Vienna, the son of Malvine ( Susman ) and Samuel Aschkenazy.

* Trumbo, a 2007 documentary by Peter Askin based on Christopher Trumbo's stage play

Robin William Askin was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 4 April 1907 at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, the eldest of three sons of Ellen Laura Halliday ( née Rowe ) and William James Askin, an Adelaide-born sailor and worker for New South Wales Railways.

Photograph of Private Askin on his enlistment in March 1942.

In 1940 Askin was appointed manager of the Bank service department, which focused on public relations.

Askin enlisted as a Private in the Second Australian Imperial Force on 30 March 1942.

By contrast, Askin put forward a wide-ranging program of reform and addressed contentious issues including the introduction of State Aid for private schools, making rent control fairer and the legalisation of off-course betting on horse races.

The Askin Government, the first Liberal / Country Cabinet in New South Wales history, was sworn in by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Eric Woodward, on 13 May at Government House.

On one occasion when Askin was supposed to drive a new Holden from the factory assembly line during a visit, Askin arranged for his driver, Russ Ferguson, to be hidden on the car floor working the controls while Askin held the wheel.

At his first Cabinet meeting, Askin restored direct air services between Sydney and Dubbo, and required Joern Utzon, the Danish architect then working on the Sydney Opera House, to provide a final price and completion date for the Opera House, which had gone past the original estimates for both.

In mid-1968 Askin famously became embroiled in a media controversy over the reporting of several words spoken to the United States Chamber of Commerce lunch in Sydney on 32 July 1968 ( also the day Opposition Leader Renshaw resigned, to be replaced by Pat Hills ), in which he spoke of the October 1966 state visit by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.

As Treasurer, Askin focused on the state budget and on Commonwealth-State financial relations.

The most notable of these was the sensational article co-authored by David Marr and David Hickie, headlined " Askin: friend of organised crime ", which was famously published on the day of Askin's funeral in 1981.

Alan Saffron alleged that his father made payments of between A $ 5000 and $ 10, 000 per week to both men over many years, that Askin and Allan both visited Saffron's office on several occasions, that Allan also visited the Saffron family home, and that Abe Saffron paid for an all-expenses overseas trip for Allan and a young female ' friend '.

Respected New Jersey Constitutional expert Frank Askin of the Rutgers University School of Law at Newark, and his Clinic on Constitutional Law, have now joined the plaintiffs ' pro bono legal team for the appeals process, intending to affirm through the courts that the PREDFDA statute guarantees free elections in planned community government

Of the nine, only Hugh Samuel Berry and Askin Hughes were soldiers, both captains in the Confederate Army and home on leave.

Leon Askin ( September 18, 1907 – June 3, 2005 ) was an Austrian actor best known for portraying the character " General Burkhalter " on the TV situation comedy Hogan's Heroes.

Askin made a guest appearance on Daniel Boone in its 1969 episode " Benvenuto ...

* Literature on Leon Askin

The movie began production on May 24, 2010, directed by Peter Askin and produced by O ' Malley and two others.

The first article, headlined " Askin: friend of organised crime " was famously published on the day of Askin's funeral in 1981.

Askin gained preselection for and won the seat of Collaroy at the 17 June 1950 election, gaining 63. 69 % of the vote.

With John Gorton becoming Prime Minister after Holt's death, Askin came into conflict with the Commonwealth Government over Gorton's determination to maintain federal command over taxation and in June 1968 declared that he could veto any form of state taxation.

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Born in Sydney in 1907, Askin was educated at Sydney Technical High School.

After serving as a bank officer and as a Sergeant in the Second World War, Askin joined the Liberal Party and was elected to the seat of Collaroy at the 1950 election.

After primary education at Glebe Public School, Askin was awarded a bursary to study at Sydney Technical High School, where he sat in the same class as the future aviator Charles Kingsford Smith.

On 5 February 1937 Askin married Mollie Isabelle Underhill, a typist at the bank, at Gilbert Park Methodist Church, Manly.

Landing at Balikpapan, Borneo, in July 1945, Askin was promoted to Sergeant under Lieutenant Colonel Murray Robson.

Upon demobilisation, Askin returned to work at the Rural Bank, managing its travel department.

However, his interest in politics arose again when he assisted his former commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Robson, in retaining his seat of Vaucluse at the 1947 state election for the newly-formed Liberal Party of Australia, which Askin then joined.

Rapidly rising through the party ranks, Askin soon became President of the Liberals ' Manly branch and supported William Wentworth's successful bid for the new seat of Mackellar at the 1949 election.

Askin, along with his Minister for Local Government, Pat Morton, oversaw the rapid escalation of building development in inner-city Sydney and the central business district, which followed in the wake of his controversial 1967 abolition of Sydney City Council and a redistribution of municipal electoral boundaries that was aimed at reducing the power of the rival Australian Labor Party.

Cutler served as Acting Premier at times when Askin was suffering from illness, having suffered two heart attacks in 1969 and 1973.

He left an estate valued at just under $ 2 million, a very substantial sum for the time, to his widow, Lady Askin.

On domestic issues, he favoured centralist policies at the expense of the states, which alienated powerful Liberal state leaders like Sir Henry Bolte of Victoria and Sir Robert Askin of New South Wales.

Askin eventually accepted Whitlam's offer of funds, however he was no longer Premier at the time of its completion.

The school first opened in 1922 at the corner of Askin Street and Wharncliffe Road South, with 290 students and 10 teachers.

Another of Hickie's informants, a former croupier at Galea's Double Bay Bridge Club, claimed that A $ 5000 per week from the club was paid in bribes to Hanson and Premier Robert Askin.

* Thomas Askin / Askue, burnt about 15 July, ' The Sand-pits ', possibly at Oxford

In Robert Askin the New South Wales Liberals had, for the first time, a confident, tough, and photogenic leader, skilled – unlike Heffron – in TV debate, although Labor did respectably at the 1962 election.