Harry Moore (Australian politician)
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Harry Frank Moore (29 March 1924 – 14 August 2009) was an Australian Labor Party politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Tuggerah from 1981 to 1988, and for Wyong from 1988 to 1991.
Moore was a veteran of World War II, in which he served in the Australian Army in the Pacific.[1] In 1989 he was responsible for new laws in the New South Wales Parliament which legalised the traditional soldier's game of Two-up on ANZAC Day each year.[2]
Moore was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia[3] in 1993, the Pacific Star and the Federation Medal for his military and political service in 2001.[4] He died in August 2009 from pneumonia.
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