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John Fahey ( politician ) John Joseph Fahey AC ( 10 January 194512 September 2020 ) was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1992 to 1995 and as the federal Minister for Finance from 1996 to 2001 . He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1984 to 1996 and the federal House of Representatives from 1996 to 2001 . Fahey also served as president of the World Anti-Doping Agency and later became chancellor of the Australian Catholic University . Early life . Fahey was born in Wellington , New Zealand , the son of Stephen Fahey , a farmer , and his wife Annie Fahey of Galway , Ireland . In 1956 , Fahey migrated with his family to Picton , New South Wales . He was educated at Chevalier College in Bowral and the University of Sydney . He married Colleen Maree McGurren in 1968 and they had two daughters and one son . He became a naturalised Australian in 1973 . Fahey also played 37 lower grade matches for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the NSWRL . State politics . Fahey won the seat of electoral district of Camden for the Liberal Party in 1984 . Fahey was elected member for Southern Highlands at the 1988 general election , and re-elected at the 1991 and 1995 state elections . During this period , Fahey was Minister for Industrial Relations from March 1988 and Minister for Further Education , Training and Employment from July 1990 in the Premier Nick Greiner led coalition government . In June 1992 , Fahey was appointed Premier of New South Wales after Greiner was forced to resign as a result of an Independent Commission Against Corruption of New South Wales investigation . Among those that Fahey defeated for the Liberal leadership in order to become premier was Bruce Baird , who was then elected as Faheys Liberal deputy and whose son Mike would become premier in 2014 . On the day that he had replaced Greiner , Fahey described it as the saddest day of his life . In 1994 , NSW Parliament was prorogued on 7 December when the Fahey government was attempting to stop a committees work . In March 1995 , Faheys government was narrowly defeated in a state election by the Labor opposition , led by Bob Carr . Fahey is noted for having thwarted an assassination attempt on Charles , Prince of Wales . On Australia Day 1994 , Prince Charles was about to commence handing out awards at a ceremony in Sydneys Darling Harbour when a former anthropology student , David Kang , lunged onto the stage towards the prince , simultaneously firing two shots from a starters pistol . Fahey , sitting next to the prince , subsequently assisted by the then Australian of the Year , Ian Kiernan , tackled Kang and wrestled him to the ground , after which Kang was subdued and arrested . Although the attack proved less dangerous than it was first thought to be , Fahey was nonetheless widely praised for his unthinking bravery . Fahey played a key role in the bidding process for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and is also noted for his reaction when Sydney won , jumping up and down enthusiastically . Federal politics . Fahey resigned from state politics just under a year after his state government was defeated at the polls and successfully sought endorsement for the Liberal Party , to serve in the federal House of Representatives in the seat of Macarthur . Fahey was elected at the 1996 federal election and served as Minister for Finance and Administration in the Howard government . A redistribution in late 2000 radically altered Macarthur , cutting out most of the Southern Highlands and turning it into a notionally Labor seat centered on southwest Sydney . Believing this made Macarthur impossible to hold , Fahey sought to contest neighbouring Hume , which had absorbed much of his old Southern Highlands base . Hume was held by first-term MP Alby Schultz , a fellow Liberal who had also served in state parliament alongside Fahey . As a minister , Fahey was entitled to a seat under internal party convention . However , Schultz refused to hand Hume to Fahey , triggering a fight between the two . Prime Minister John Howard ordered an end to the feud . Soon afterward , Fahey announced in May 2001 that he was retiring , citing family , personal and health reasons , after having one of his lungs removed in February due to cancer . He retired in October 2001 , prior to the November 2001 election . Career after politics . Fahey became director of the Bradman Foundation when he left politics in 2001 . On 17 October 2007 , he was confirmed as the next president of the World Anti-Doping Agency , a position that he held until November 2013 . In 2010 , Fahey gave the 12th annual Tom Brock Lecture . Fahey was appointed as the fourth chancellor of the Australian Catholic University in Sydney for a five-year term from 4 September 2014 . He was appointed to a second five-year term in May 2019 , but died in September 2020 . Personal life and death . A devout Roman Catholic , he was married to a former Anglican , Colleen , and stirred some controversy when he declared his opposition to both abortion and birth control . John and Colleen Faheys daughter , Tiffany , was killed in a road accident , at the age of 27 , on 26 December 2006 . John and Colleen Fahey became the legal guardians of Tiffanys children , Campbell and Amber . His son , the eldest of three children , is Matthew Fahey and his elder daughter is Melanie Fahey . Fahey died on the morning of 12 September 2020 after a battle with leukaemia . He was 75 years old . The Government of New South Wales said it would hold a state funeral for the former premier . It was celebrated on 25 September by Archbishop Anthony Fisher at St Marys Cathedral , Sydney . Honours . Fahey was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia in 2002 for service to the Australian and New South Wales Parliaments , particularly through landmark reform of industrial relations , facilitation of high technology and industry growth , and for raising the international profile of Australia as Chairman of the Bid for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games . Pope Francis made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory the Great in 2019 . In 2016 , Fahey was also awarded the Esprit du Chevalier Medal by his alma mater Chevalier College , that institutions highest public honour . External links . - WADA Executive Committee Members