John aqualina biography

John Joseph Aquilina AM, an Australian former politician, is a former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Blacktown between 19and the electorate of Riverstone between 19for the.
John Joseph Aquilina AM (born 12 March 1950, in Malta), an Australian former politician, is a former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Born in Attard in 1977, Aquilina was first nudged towards Maltese poetry on the strength of the radio outreach of the late Oliver Friggieri, whose broadcasting.

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John Aquilina

Australian politician

John Joseph AquilinaAM (born 12 March 1950, in Malta), an Australian former politician, is a former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Blacktown between 1981 and 1991 and the electorate of Riverstone between 1991 and 2011 for the Labor Party.

Between 1986 and 1988 and again between 1995 and 2003, he served in a range of ministerial portfolios including Minister for Natural Resources and Minister for Youth and Community Services in the Wran and Unsworth Labor governments and Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Fair Trading, and Minister for Land and Water Conservation in the Carr Labor government.

From 2003 to 2007, he was Speaker of the NSW Legislative Assembly, and was Leader of the House from 2007 until his retirement in 2011.

Aquilina re-acquired citizenship of Malta^[1] and has served as Malta's Ambassador for various countries post his retirement from Australian politics.

Early years and background

In 1956, aged 6 years, Aquilina migrated from Malta

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Joseph John Aquilina

Maltese footballer and manager

Joseph John Aquilina (born 16 February 1957 in Malta) is a retired footballer and current manager. During his career, he played as a midfielder for Sliema Wanderers.

International career

Aquilina made his debut for Malta in a June 1979 European Championship qualification match against Wales, coming on as a 78th-minute substitute for Ġużi Xuereb, and earned a total of 14 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a November 1986 European Championship qualifier against Sweden.^[1]

Managerial career

Aquilina has coached Marsaxlokk and Valletta.^[2]^[3] On 20 October 2010 Aquilina was appointed coach of Żurrieq.

Recently JJ was appointed as assistant coach at Floriana in order to assist senior team coach Nicolas Hernan Chiesa with his managerial duties.

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Born in Attard in 1977, Aquilina was first nudged towards Maltese poetry on the strength of the radio outreach of the late Oliver Friggieri, whose broadcasting on local literary matters had a profound effect on the young Aquilina. In fact he claims, in no uncertain terms, that it did nothing short of saving him. In hindsight, he views the poetry of Friggieri’s generation to have left the deepest imprint on his literary appreciation and, eventually, writing process, most pointedly through his regular take-up of the hendecasyllable. Aquilina also owes a literary debt to the bilingual author and playwright Francis Ebejer, along with the works of Frans Sammut and Alfred Sant.

His first scribblings at 14 years of age were the necessary products of a juvenile voice still finding its legs, and his initial explorations into the field yielded a response that is perhaps typical of all relative late-comers: the fear – or, in Aquilina’s own words, sheer panic – of knowing one has not read nearly enough.

Thankfully, Aquilina’s anxiety was not overpowering enough to lead him