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Donald Shearman was born in Australia on 6 February 1926. He was a prominent Australian politician and public servant. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party and served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1960 to 1983. Shearman was educated at the University of Queensland and worked as a teacher before entering politics. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in 1960 and served as a minister in the governments of Jack Houston, Tom Burns, and Joh Bjelke-Petersen. He was also a member of the Australian Labor Party's National Executive from 1972 to 1983. Shearman was a strong advocate for social justice and was a vocal opponent of the Bjelke-Petersen government's policies. He was also a strong supporter of the Aboriginal Land Rights movement. Shearman retired from politics in 1983 and died in Brisbane in 2008. He was 82 years old.

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Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 6 February 1926
Birthday 6 February
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Date of death 2019 (aged 92–93)
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Nationality Australia

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2007

Shearman was the subject of a submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In 2007, Shearman's OBE that he was awarded in 1978 was revoked, following being defrocked for sexual assault.

1964

Shearman was educated at Orange High School. After World War II service with the Royal Australian Air Force he studied for the priesthood at St John's Theological College, Morpeth. Ordained in 1950, his first post was a curacy at Dubbo. Later he was warden of St John's Hostel, Forbes, then rector of Coonabarabran. His last post before being ordained to the episcopate was as Archdeacon of Mildura. In 1963 he became Bishop of Rockhampton, (he was consecrated a bishop on 24 February 1964 at St John's Cathedral (Brisbane)) a post he held for eight years. After two years as chairman of the Australian Board of Missions he became Bishop of Grafton in 1973, serving until 1985. He resigned his holy orders in 2003 and was later defrocked. The handling of the case by then Archbishop of Brisbane, Peter Hollingworth, led to Hollingworth's later resignation as Governor-General of Australia in 2003.

1926

Donald Norman Shearman (6 February 1926–2019) was an Australian Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Rockhampton from 1963 to 1971 and Bishop of Grafton from 1973 to 1985. In 2004, a church tribunal found Shearman guilty of misconduct for sexually abusing a schoolgirl while serving as a boarding master at an Anglican hostel in Forbes, New South Wales, in the 1950s. On 25 August 2004, Shearman became the first member of the clergy in the Anglican Church of Australia to be removed from holy orders as a result of that finding.