Bob Cotton

Sir Robert Carrington Cotton, KCMG, AO (29 Nuwamba 1915 - 25 Disamba 2006) ɗan siyasan Australiya ne kuma ɗan diflomasiyya. Ya kasance memba na Jam'iyyar Liberal kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Sanata na New South Wales daga 1966 zuwa 1978. Ya rike mukamin minista a matsayin Ministan Jirgin Sama (1969-1972), Kimiyya da Harkokin Abokan Ciniki (1975), da Masana'antu da Kasuwanci (1975-1977). Daga baya ya yi aiki a matsayin Consul-General a New York (1978-1982) da Jakada a Amurka (1982-1985).

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Cotton a Broken Hill, New South Wales a shekarar 1915. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin St Peter, Adelaide kuma ya horar da shi a matsayin matukin jirgi na Royal Australian Air Force a 1942 da 1943, amma bai shiga cikin aiki a yakin duniya na biyu ba yayin da aka tura shi zuwa Sashen Sayarwa. Maimakon haka Cotton ya kafa masana'antar katako a Oberon, New South Wales a matsayin fifiko a lokacin yaƙi.

Bayan yakin Cotton ya zama dan kasuwa da makiyaya a Oberon. A cikin 1949 da 1950 ya kasance Shugaban Majalisar Oberon Shire.

 Siyasa 
Cotton ya kasance memba na Jam'iyyar Liberal ta Ostiraliya tun daga kafuwarta, kuma a cikin Zaben tarayya na 1949 ya yi takara ba tare da nasara ba don kujerar Macquarie a kan memba na Jam-iyyar Labor ta Australiya, Firayim Minista Ben Chifley. Ya sake rasa Chifley, yanzu Shugaban Jam'iyyar adawa, a shekarar 1951.[1]

Daga 1957 zuwa 1960 ya kasance Shugaban Jam'iyyar Liberal ta Jihar New South Wales. 

 Majalisar Dattawa 
An nada Cotton a Majalisar Dattijai don cika gurbin da ya haifar da murabus din Sir William Spooner a watan Agustan 1965. Kundin Tsarin Mulki na Australiya ya nuna cewa dole ne a gudanar da 1967_Australian_Senate_election" id="mwPw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1967 Australian Senate election">Zaben Majalisar Dattijai na musamman a lokaci guda da zaben majalisar dattijai na 1966, amma an sake zabar Cotton. An sake zabarsa a 1967, 1974 da 1975. Ya kasance Ministan Jirgin Sama daga 1969 zuwa 1972, wanda ke da alhakin Ma'aikatar Jirgin Sama. A lokacin da Cotton ya kasance Minista, Ma'aikatar ta gabatar da dokokin tsaro don ware wadanda ba fasinjoji ba daga tashoshin tashi na filin jirgin sama na kasa da kasa. Cotton ya kasance Ministan Masana'antu da Kasuwanci daga 1975 zuwa 1977.

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 2006
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1915