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Askin and Private
Photograph of Private Askin on his enlistment in March 1942.

Askin and Second
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.

Askin and Australian
Sir Robert William Askin GCMG, ( 4 April 19079 September 1981 ) was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party of Australia.
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.
* Sir John Fuller ( Australian politician ) ( 1917 – 2009 ), former New South Wales minister in the Robert Askin government
In 1979 John Hatton, an independent politician claimed in the New South Wales Parliament that Askin and Hanson knew of and may have even encouraged the penetration of Australian crime by " overseas mobsters, gangsters and the Mafia ".

Askin and on
* 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.
In 1940 Askin was appointed manager of the Bank service department, which focused on public relations.
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 ...
Askin died in Vienna on June 3, 2005, at the age of 97.
* 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 and .
He was born in 1907 as Robin William Askin, but always disliked his first name and changed it by deed poll in 1971.
Born in Sydney in 1907, Askin was educated at Sydney Technical High School.
Askin quickly rose through party ranks, eventually becoming Deputy Leader following Walter Howarth's resignation in July 1954.
When long-serving party leader Vernon Treatt announced his resignation in August 1954, Askin put his name forward to replace him.
At the vote, he became deadlocked against Pat Morton and Askin asked his former commanding officer Murray Robson to take the leadership instead.
Askin remained as Deputy until, after leading the party to a second electoral defeat in 1959, Morton was deposed and Askin was elected to succeed him.
At the May 1965 election, Askin presented the Liberal Party as a viable alternative government.
At the end of his term, after winning another three elections, Askin was the longest-serving Premier of New South Wales ; his record has since been overtaken by Neville Wran and Bob Carr.
Askin remains the longest-serving Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party and the only Liberal Premier to retire from office.
Askin spent his early years in Stuart Town before his family moved to Glebe, a working-class inner-city suburb of Sydney.
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.
At the age of 15, after a short time in the electrical trade, in 1922 Askin joined the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales as a Clerk.
Between 1925 and 1929 Askin served part time as a Lieutenant in the 55th Battalion, Citizens Military Forces.
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.

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