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:''For the cricket player, see Alan Griffiths (cricketer).'' Alan Gordon Griffiths (born 4 September 1952), is a former Australian politician who represented the Division of Maribyrnong for the Australian Labor Party from March 1983 to January 1996. Griffiths was a senior Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments and is now a businessman and non-executive director.〔Guildford Coal Ltd, "Annual Report to Shareholders", 27 September 2011〕 Griffiths specializes in commercializing new technologies, including the road alignment software, Quantm, which has been used on Australasian, US and Asian infrastructure projects.〔 ==Early life== Born in Melbourne, Griffiths was one of 11 children, raised in Traralgon in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria. He understood what it meant to struggle, leaving home at 14 and entering the workforce as a scaffolder and rigger.〔A. Butcher, "Losing Sight of Summit", Herald Sun, 24 January 1994〕 Griffiths subsequently worked in a variety of jobs before entering politics, including as a taxi driver, political adviser and lawyer.〔Nikki Savva, "Ex-rigger who aims to climb all the way", Herald Sun, 3 April 1993.〕 At one point he worked as a powder monkey in the South Australian desert 〔S. Troeth and J. Larking, "Top of the Turks", Herald Sun, 18 Feb 1992, p.12〕 Griffiths showed early entrepreneurial flair. In the early 1970s, while working in a shipyard, he raffled his first pay cheque, selling tickets to workmates and earning well above the value of his wage.〔 By 20 he was married and a father to two girls and, although he had left school early, Griffiths was determined to have an education.〔 He entered university on a scholarship and worked as a taxi driver to support his family while he studied.〔 Griffiths graduated from Monash University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws.〔(In the news and on the move ), Monash University, August 1996〕 Griffiths' first contact with politics came in the early 1980s, when he worked in the office of former New South Wales Premier, Neville Wran, before being elected to the Federal seat of Maribyrnong in 1983.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Griffiths」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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