Ralph Willis (born 14 April 1938), Australian politician, was Treasurer for the final years of the Keating Labor Government. Willis was born in Melbourne to Stan and Doris Willis and educated at Footscray Central School, University High School and Melbourne University, gaining a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He subsequently worked as a research officer and industrial advocate for the Australian Council of Trade Unions. He and his wife Carol Willis (nee Dawson) have three children, Sandra, Fiona and Evan. In 1972, the year that the Whitlam Labor government was elected, Willis was elected as a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives for the extremely safe Labor seat of Gellibrand in Melbourne's western suburbs. He was elected to the Opposition front bench after Labor's defeat in 1975, and was Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations, Economic Affairs and Treasury from 1976 to 1983. In January 1983, however, he was dropped from the Tre

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