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 (Victorian Branch)|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 (Victoria)|Mitcham]. He was promoted to the front bench as Minister for [Small Business (Victoria)|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.