Anthony Allan Staley, AO

Order of Australia

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 (born 15 May 1939, educated at Scotch College, Melbourne

Scotch College, Melbourne

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) is an Australian politician, member of parliament and businessman.

Staley the member for Chisholm

Division of Chisholm

The Division of Chisholm is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1949 and is named for Caroline Chisholm, a social worker and promoter of women's immigration. It is located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne...

 from 1970 to 1980 and was Minister for the Capital Territory

Minister for Home Affairs (Australia)

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 from February 1976 to December 1977 in the Fraser Government

Second Fraser Ministry

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 and then Minister for Post and Telecommunications

Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Australia)

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 until his retirement from Parliament. He later served as Federal President of the Liberal Party of Australia

Liberal Party of Australia

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. In May 1994 when Liberal Leader John Hewson called a leadership spill, Staley as Liberal President caused controversy when he withdrew his support for Hewson. The controversy was due to the expectation that the organisational wing of the party which Staley was in charge of as President did not interfere with the parliamentary party in selecting the leader. In the resulting leadership spill Hewson was ousted by Alexander Downer but it was expected that Staley would not have survived as party president if Hewson had won the spill.

He currently serves on several business and community Boards and Committees including:

• Chairman of the Council of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman Scheme
• Chairman of the Council of the National Museum of Australia
• President of the Governing Board of Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre
• Independent Chair of the .au Domain Administration (auDA)