John Harrowfield

John Dyson Harrowfield is a former Australian politician.
Harrowfield was born in Melbourne to Roy Wilmott Harrowfield and Irene Mary Whitworth. He attended state schools and then Melbourne University, where he received a Bachelor of Commerce. He worked as an accountant and as an economics tutor at Melbourne University and the Swinburne and Chisholm Institutes of Technology. A member of the Labor Party, he was president of the Blackburn North branch from 1974 to 1979.
In 1982 Harrowfield was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Mitcham. He was promoted to the front bench as Minister for Small Business on 16 April 1991 a position he held until 21 January 1992 when he became Minister for Finance. Harrowfield lost his seat in the election on 2 October 1992. From 1992 he was a public policy researcher and consultant.