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Don Willesee
Donald Robert "Don" Willesee (14 April 19169 September 2003) was an Australian politician, a member of the Australian Senate for 25 years representing Western Australia, and a Cabinet minister in the Whitlam government.
Willesee was born in Derby, Western Australia and educated at state and convent schools at Carnarvon in the same state. He left school at 14 (his father and brother had lost their jobs during the Great Depression), to work as a postal clerk in Carnarvon, and immediately joined the Australian Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists. He eventually became state secretary of this organisation. He later worked as a telegraphist in Perth. In 1940 he married Gwendoline Clarke.
==Political career==
Willesee joined the Australian Labor Party when he was 21 and was elected as a senator for Western Australia in 1950 at the age of 33, the youngest Australian senator elected up to that time. He worked with Whitlam to reform the Labor Party prior to the 1972 election.〔 According to Kim Beazley he was a "... key assistant to Gough Whitlam as he set about the task of restructuring the Labor Party ... and made an intelligent, brilliant rabble fit for government."
Following the 1972 election, Willesee was appointed as Special Minister of State, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister assisting the Prime Minister and Minister assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the second Whitlam Ministry (which followed the "two-man Ministry" from 5 December to 19 December 1972). As Special Minister of State he endorsed the establishment of a computerised library information system to connect national, state and university libraries, which has continued to evolve. Whitlam relinquished the position of Minister for Foreign Affairs to him on 30 November 1973. During this period he had major responsibility for implementing the Whitlam government's initiative in improving relations with Asia. He was opposed to Indonesia's invasion of East Timor and is quoted as having said in 1975: He did not stand for re-election at the 1975 double dissolution election.
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