Lynton Crosby

Sir Lynton Keith Crosby AO (an haife shi a ranar 23 ga watan Agustan shekara ta 1956)   masanin dabarun siyasa ne na Australiya wanda ya gudanar da kamfen din zabe ga jam'iyyun dama a kasashe da yawa.

An bayyana Crosby a matsayin "maigidan zane-zane na siyasa", "Wizard na Oz", da kuma "Karl Rove na Australiya". A Shekarar ta 2002, The Age ya kira shi "daya daga cikin manyan mutane da tasiri a cikin al'umma".

Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Jami'ar Adelaide, Crosby ya fara shiga siyasa tare da Jam'iyyar Liberal ta Ostiraliya, daga ƙarshe an nada shi darektan tarayya na jam'iyyar a shekarar 1997. Ya kula da nasarar kamfen din jam'iyyar a zaben tarayya na 1996, 1998, 2001, da 2004, wanda ya sanya Gwamnatin Howard ta zama Gwamnatin tarayya ta biyu mafi tsawo a Australia. A shekara ta 2002, Crosby ya bar matsayinsa na al'ada a cikin jam'iyyar don kafa Kamfanin ba da shawara, Crosby Textor Group .

Crosby ya fara shiga siyasa ta kasashen waje a Babban zaben Burtaniya na 2005, inda ya jagoranci yakin neman zabe na Jam'iyyar Conservative da bai yi nasara ba. Tun daga wannan lokacin ya kuma gudanar da kamfen na Conservative don zaben magajin gari na London na 2008 da 2012, da kuma Babban zaben 2015, dukansu sun haifar da nasarori ga jam'iyyar. Yaƙin neman zaɓe bai yi nasara ba a Zaben magajin gari na London na 2016 (wanda dan takarar Labour, Sadiq Khan ya lashe)  da kuma Babban zaben 2017 wanda Conservatives suka kasance jam'iyya mafi girma amma sun rasa kujeru 13 da mafi rinjaye a majalisa. 

 Rayuwa ta farko da aiki 
An haifi Crosby a Kadina, Kudancin Ostiraliya, kuma ya girma a wani yanki na karkara na jihar, inda mahaifinsa Dudley Crosby ya yi aiki a matsayin manomi na hatsi da mai mallakar shagon zane-zane da sana'o'i. Ya yi karatun tattalin arziki a Jami'ar Adelaide.

 Ayyukan siyasa 

 Farkon aiki da Ostiraliya 
Crosby ya fara aikinsa a shekarar 1976 a matsayin mai sharhi kan kasuwa tare da Kamfanin Golden Fleece Petroleum . Daga nan ya koma siyasa a matsayin mai taimakawa bincike a shekarar 1978 ga Sanata Baden Teague . A shekarar 1980, Crosby ya zama mataimakin babban jami'i ga Harold Allison, Ministan Ilimi da Harkokin 'Yan Asalin Aboriginal a lokacin. Crosby ya zama mataimakin babban jami'i ga Martin Cameron a shekarar 1992, wanda a lokacin Shugaban 'Yan Adawa ne a Majalisar Dokokin Kudancin Australia . Tsakanin 1986 da 1991, Crosby ya rike mukamai da dama na harkokin kamfanoni a fannin kamfanoni masu zaman kansu na Australiya.

 Manazarta 
Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1956