7/11122,126) PM OLSEN, John Wayne (1945— )Senator for South Australia, 1990-92 (Liberal Party of Australia) I The Biographical Dictionary inkieeret Jen Nib 8 tgmaRTE-1-Thf:telED 1,24''assi-NCORI 137 I — £c et4 ICE perfil iAaNn- . 4\el • i OLS na or or out ustral a, 1990-92 Liberal pa of Australia) 4' https://biography.senaba.gov.atuolserJohn-wayne/ SC'.. -C-E-- o r Cz; m c.-fr Ciccieitwimasi Trig‘tetilNiCi I 9 St ..,,pohn Wayne Olsen, Liberal Pa Premier of South Au 9: • 001 served two years in the Senate from 7 May 1990, when he filled a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Tony Messner. ti.jczcc. Hr.; ceses-.1- - • A colourful backgrounder in the Australian on 29 November 1996, the day after he became Premier of South Australia, argued that there was a defining moment in Olsen's life when he was eighteen and with his father when the latter suffered a massive heart attack and died while driving the family speedboat. Other defining moments revolved around his fortunes as a state politician: his two years in the Senate rated barely a mention. State politics was dearly the main game for John Olsen. - c_c>NAK.re.C.Tet, iO Aluter-bC4.1 Qe-b-A PlAr-t.Stt n cc, P 16Q. or • Born In Kadina in rural South Australia on 7 June 1945, Olsen was the son of Stanley John Olsen, owner of an agricultural•fftchine and motor vehicle business, and his wife Joyce Rosalind, nee Heath. He was educated at MKadina Memorial High Schoo*tudied accountancy at the South Australian School of Business Studies, spent a period from 1962 as a bank clerk with the SA Savings Bank, and by 1968 was managing director of the family business, J. R. Olsen & Sons Pty Ltd. His determination to be part of the political process and influence policy direction was inspired by what he saw as the need to addrem_the neglect of small business interests untler Don Dunstan, and 'the excesses of the Dunstan and Whitlam eratfOlsen became politically engaged fife! as