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Creator:
Penington, Professor David Geoffrey
Date of birth: 4 February 1930
Place of birth: Melbourne
Date of death: 6 January 2023
Biography: A medical graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford, D.G. Penington was Professor of Medicine at this University 1970-1987, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1978-1985, and Vice-Chancellor from 1988 until 1995. Among his extra-mural activities were the Chairmanship of the Committee of Inquiry into the Rights of Private Practice in Public Hospitals, 1984, and of the AIDS Task Force 1984-1987. He played a leading part in the controversy surrounding the Victorian Certification of Education and in the defence of the autonomy of universities. In 1999 he was appointed chair of the Victorian State Government Drugs Taskforce. He was made Companion of the Order of Australia in 1988 and Victorian of the Year 2014.
Activities/Occupation: Vice-chancellors
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