Chris Schacht

Christopher Cleland Schacht (born 6 December 1946) is a former Australian politician and member of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was born in Melbourne and educated at the University of Adelaide and Wattle Park Teachers College.

Schacht's political career started as a state party official in 1969 during the Don Dunstan era. In 1987, he entered Federal Parliament as a Labor Party Senator for South Australia. He was Minister for Science and Small Business and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Science in the Keating Labor Government from March 1993 to March 1994 and then Minister for Small Business, Customs and Construction until Labor's defeat at the 1996 election. He left the parliament in June 2002 after 15 years as a Senator and 33 years in Australian politics.^[1][2]

Schacht is also the current President of the Australian Volleyball Federation and was elected to a new two-year term at this post in October 2006. In this month, he was also elected to the Legal Commission of the FIVB (Federation Internationale de Volleyball) for a four-year term.^[3]

Schacht is also a current Director of the Marathon resources, a mining exploration company which was recently given renewed mining exploration rights to the Arkaroola wilderness sanctuary is South Australia

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