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Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Simon Crean, former Labor and ACTU leader, dies aged 74

Simon Crean, a former Labor opposition leader, has died suddenly while in Germany, aged 74.

Crean, who served in parliament from 1990 to 2013, was a minister in the Hawke, Keating, Rudd and Gillard governments.

He was opposition leader between 2001 and 2003, when he was replaced by Mark Latham.

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