Jack Ginifer
John Joseph "Jack" Ginifer was an Australian politician.
Ginifer was born in Warracknabeal, Victoria to Joseph Ginifer, a Singer sewing machine salesman from England, and Agnes Harper. He was educated at schools in Benalla, then undertook teacher training at Melbourne Teachers' College and a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He worked as a schoolteacher for more than twenty years from 1945 to 1966, including at Jamieson St Primary School in Warrnambool.
Ginifer was active in local government politics, serving as a councillor in the Williamstown City Council and the Shire of Altona. He was also on the state executive of the Australian [Labor Party (Victorian Branch)|Labor Party] from 1959 to 1966. In 1966, Ginifer was elected at a by-election to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as a Labor member for the seat of Grant. Electoral redistributions saw his seat renamed Deer Park in 1967 and Keilor in 1976.
On 8 April 1982, Ginifer was made a minister in John Cain's first cabinet as Minister for Consumer Affairs and Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, but he resigned from those posts, and from the parliament, a month later on 10 May, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. He died two months later on 9 July, aged 54.
Ginifer railway station in St Albans, J. J. Ginifer Reserve in Altona North, Jack Ginifer Reserve in Gladstone Park, and Ginifer Court, a cul-de-sac in St Albans, were named after him.