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Thomas "Tom" Uren (28 May 1921 – 26 January 2015) was an Australian politician and Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1975 to 1977. Uren served as the Member for Reid in the Australian House of Representatives from 1958 to 1990, being appointed Minister for Urban and Regional Development (1972–75), Minister for Territories and Local Government (1983–84) and Minister for Local Government and Administrative Services (1984–87). He also helped establish the heritage and conservation movement in Australia and, in particular, worked to preserve the heritage of inner Sydney. ==Early life== Uren was born in Balmain, Sydney, then a working-class suburb, and was educated at Manly High School. Uren's family is of Cornish ancestry, originating in Penzance.〔http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/uren/intertext1.html – date accessed 1st Feb 2011〕 Uren played rugby league for Manly Warringah in his youth and was a strong competitive swimmer. Uren had an early career as a professional boxer,〔(McCoy to meet Tommy Uren, ''The Mercury'', (Wednesday, 26 April 1922>),p.8. )〕 and challenged for the Australian heavyweight championship against Billy Britt.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = National Library of Australia )〕 In 1941, Uren joined the Australian Army's permanent forces. He subsequently volunteered for the Second Australian Imperial Force and served in the 2/1st Heavy Battery. Uren was deployed to Timor and was a prisoner of the Japanese from 1942 to 1945, during which time Uren worked on the Burma-Siam railway and served with Edward "Weary" Dunlop. Uren was later transferred to Japan where Uren witnessed the distant crimson sky resulting from the explosion of the US atom bomb on Nagasaki.〔〔〔Coulthard-Clark (1996), p. 135〕 He was discharged in December, 1945 with the rank of Bombardier.〔(World War II Nominal Roll )〕 After the war Uren spent a short time trying to revive his boxing career which included a trip to England and Uren worked for his passage on voyages through the Panama Canal. On return, Uren worked as a Woolworths manager at Lithgow which led to inspiring him to join the Australian Labor Party after attending Ben Chifley's funeral. Uren and his wife Patricia moved to Guildford, in Sydney's west, in the late 1940s, and established two small retailing outlets on the corner of Chetwynd Road and Hawksview Street, West Guildford to gain the financial independence to pursue a political career. Uren also built a family home nearby, before transferring from the Lithgow branch of the Labor party to the West Guildford branch in 1954.〔〔(Australian Biography )〕 There is now a park in Iris Street, West Guildford, called "Tom Uren Park" in memory of the Labor Party local. 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「Tom Uren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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