Former federal Labor leader Simon Crean dies aged 74

Breaking | Simon Crean, a key figure in the union movement and the Australian Labor Party over four decades, was visiting Europe for meetings on trade and business.

Crean, a key figure in the union movement and the Australian Labor Party over four decades, was visiting Europe for meetings on trade and business and is understood to have died on Sunday.The news has shocked people who knew Crean over his time as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, as a minister under former prime minister Paul Keating, as federal Labor leader from 2001 to 2003, and a cabinet minister from 2007 to 2013.

Crean spent three years as trade minister under prime minister Kevin Rudd from 2007 to 2010 and used the position to commit Australia to removing trade barriers.

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