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.

The 1965 campaign against the Labor Government ( lead since April 1964 by Jack Renshaw ), a government widely perceived to be tired and devoid of ideas, was notable for being one of Australia's first " presidential-style " campaigns, with Askin being the major focus of campaigning and a main theme of " With Askin You'll Get Action ".

As Premier and Treasurer, Askin heavily involved himself in the business of Government, while also maintaining a range of social agendas and regular outings to the racetrack or Rugby League games.

Two weeks after the first Government meeting, the Askin Government abolished the tow-away system for Sydney and Newcastle.

Despite a hostile Legislative Council, an extended drought and various industrial disputes, Askin and his Government passed several reforms.

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.

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.

Warringah Shire Council was first dismissed in April 1967 by the Askin State Government and was triggered by the gaoling of two councillors for bribery.

Willis was regarded as the outstanding minister of the Askin Government and is considered one of the state's greatest Education Ministers.

Buses and ferries were the responsibility of the Department of Government Transport until 1972, when the Askin Liberal government combined the agency with the New South Wales Government Railways to form the Public Transport Commission of New South Wales.

When the Askin Government came to power in 1965, Lewis was given relatively junior portfolios of Lands and Mines.

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.

He was born in 1907 as Robin William Askin, but always disliked his first name and changed it by deed poll in 1971.

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.

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

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

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.

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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.

At the May 1965 election, Askin presented the Liberal Party as a viable alternative government.

Askin remains the longest-serving Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party and the only Liberal Premier to retire from office.

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.

Despite these promises, Askin and the new Country Party Leader, Charles Cutler, lost the election to Heffron, mainly due to the adverse reactions of voters towards the November 1960 " horror budget " and credit squeeze made by the federal Liberal government of Robert Menzies.

The Coalition lost five seats, despite a small swing of 0. 16 % and the Coalition gaining the support of prominent media businessman, Frank Packer, who helped project the image of Askin and the Liberal party as a viable alternative government.

Askin had a greater dislike for Gorton's successor, William McMahon and received financial support from McMahon only when Askin threatened to release a NSW " horror budget " that could damage Federal Liberal voting intentions.

However, despite this the Coalition went to a record fourth win against the ALP of Pat Hills, increasing the Liberal / Country majority by four seats, and making Askin the only Premier to win four consecutive terms.

In mid-1965, the New South Wales Liberal government of Robert Askin was elected.

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.

The Liberal Party state government of Robert Askin, which came to power in 1966, was keen to break Labor's control of the City of Sydney.

Liberal Premier Robert Askin was in the midst of an election campaign, and used the protests as a means of conveying his law and order message to voters.

Though this project has been planned by the ( Askin ) NSW State ( Liberal ) government for six years, that government has informed us that they are unable to spend the money we have provided.

He rose to become a long-serving Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 1959 to 1975 under Robert Askin.

The Liberal leader, Robert Askin, often used the slogan " Twenty-four years of Labor misrule ".

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

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In Sydney, protesters lay down in front of the car carrying Johnson and the Premier of New South Wales, Robert Askin ( prompting Askin's notorious order to " Run over the bastards ").

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.

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.

Askin also addressed the demands of the New England New State Movement by holding a referendum in 1967, which was defeated by a large margin.

** Bob Askin replaces Jack Renshaw as Premier of New South Wales.

* September 9 – Sir Robert ( Bob ) Askin, Premier of New South Wales ( b. 1907 )

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

No earlier premier of New South Wales had remained in office as long as Cahill did, and none would manage to surpass the length of Cahill's tenure until Sir Robert Askin in the 1970s.

* Sir John Fuller ( Australian politician ) ( 1917 – 2009 ), former New South Wales minister in the Robert Askin government

During this period, he oversaw the publication of the articles by David Hickie that detailed long-suppressed allegations of corruption against former New South Wales Premier Robert Askin.

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 ".

* Premier of New South Wales – Robert Askin