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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Australian politician}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| honorific-prefix = <br />
| name = Gerry Bates<br />
| honorific-suffix = <br />
| constituency_AM = [[Division of Franklin (state)|Franklin]]<br />
| assembly = Tasmanian House of<br />
| term_start = 8 February 1986<br />
| term_end = 4 May 1995<br />
| birthname = Gerard Maxwell Bates<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|9|13|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Lancashire]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]]<br />
| death_date = <br />
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| profession = Environmental lawyer, legal academic<br />
| party = [[Tasmanian Greens]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[University of Birmingham]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Gerard Maxwell Bates''' (born 13 September 1950) is an Australian environmental lawyer and academic, and former politician.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Bates was born in [[Lancashire]], [[England]] in 1950. He studied at the [[University of Birmingham]] where he qualified for a [[Bachelor of Laws]] (LLB)(Hons) and a [[PhD]].<br />
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Bates went on to become a tutor at the University of Birmingham and a senior lecturer at Birmingham Polytechnic.<br />
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He later emigrated to Australia, and was a lecturer in environmental law at the [[University of Tasmania]] until [[Bob Brown]] convinced him to run for parliament as a Green Independent in [[1986 Tasmanian state election]].<ref>Hill, Stuart (2001): ''Ecological pioneers: a social history of Australian ecological thought and action'', Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-00956-1}}.</ref><br />
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==Political career==<br />
In 1986, he was elected to the [[Tasmanian House of Assembly]] for [[Division of Franklin (state)|Franklin]] as an [[independent (politician)|Independent Green]]. At the [[1989 Tasmanian state election|1989 election]], three other Greens were elected in addition to Brown and Bates ([[Lance Armstrong (politician)|Lance Armstrong]], [[Di Hollister]] and [[Christine Milne]]). The Greens held the balance of power, and agreed to give support to the Labor Party to form a [[minority government]] when they signed the [[Labor–Green Accord]]. In 1992, the five Independent Greens in the House formed the [[Tasmanian Greens]].<br />
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Bates resigned from the House of Assembly on 4 May 1995 to contest [[Electoral division of Queenborough|Queenborough]] in the [[Tasmanian Legislative Council|Legislative Council]], but was unsuccessful.<ref name="taspl">{{cite Tas Parliament |title=Bates, Gerard Maxwell |id=batesg653 |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Academic career==<br />
Bates is an adjunct professor at the [[Sydney Law School]], the law faculty of the [[University of Sydney]].<ref name="sls">[http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/staff/adjunct.shtml Conferred Titles], Sydney Law School, 7 July 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2011.</ref> He is also an adjunct professor at the Australian Centre for Environmental Law (ACEL), part of the [[Australian National University]].<ref>[http://law.anu.edu.au/acel/staff.asp The Australian Centre for Environmental Law] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927060459/http://law.anu.edu.au/acel/staff.asp |date=27 September 2011 }}, Australian National University.</ref><br />
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Bates has been a member of the Board of the Environment Protection Authority of NSW since 1996, a member of the State of the Environment Advisory Council since 2004, and a Director of Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises, a regional waste recovery centre and landfill on Sydney's Northern Beaches, since 2006.<br />
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Bates is author of ''Environmental Law in Australia'', ''Corporate Liability for Pollution" and "Pollution Law in Australia''. He is also Editor of the ''Environment and Planning Law Journal''.<br />
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Bates received a special award from the National Environmental Law Association in 1994 for Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Law.{{cn|date=January 2024}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://gerrybates.com.au/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309004515/http://gerrybates.com.au/ |date=9 March 2012 }}<br />
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