George Paciullo
George Paciullo Minister for Police and Emergency Services (New South Wales) | |
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In office 6 February 1986 – 25 March 1988 | |
Premier | Barrie Unsworth |
Preceded by | Peter Anderson |
Succeeded by | Ted Pickering |
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Liverpool | |
In office 13 February 1971 – 19 February 1989 | |
Preceded by | Jack Mannix |
Succeeded by | Peter Anderson |
Personal details | |
Born | Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) | 20 February 1934
Spouse | Janette Ruth Paciullo |
Children | Murray Paciullo |
Occupation | Draftsman |
George Paciullo,
Paciullo was born in
In 1971, the member for the local state seat of Liverpool, Jack Mannix, retired, and Paciullo was preselected as the replacement Labor candidate. He was elected easily, and was never troubled in his own electorate. In 1973 he became Shadow Minister for Sport, Recreation and Tourism.
When Labor, under
After Labor suffered a landslide defeat by the
Shortly afterwards Paciullo resigned from parliament; the by-election held to replace him was acrimonious, as the former member for Penrith, Peter Anderson, was chosen as candidate after a protracted preselection dispute between the Left's Paul Lynch and the Right's Mark Latham.[3]
After 1988 Paciullo returned to local politics, serving again on Liverpool City Council as mayor from 1994 to 2003. On 14 June 1999 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.[4] He was appointed to the board of the NRMA in 2000. On 26 May 2002 he was made a life member of the Labor Party.[2]
Paciullo died at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney on 9 October 2012, aged 78,[5] of complications related to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[6]
References
- ^ "Embodiment of style and substance". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ a b "The Hon. George Paciullo (1934 - 2012)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for Liverpool". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ "The Honourable George PACIULLO - Medal of the Order of Australia". Australian Honours Search Facility. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ Klein, Nathan (9 October 2012). "Man who introduced Random Breath Testing in the early 1980s, George Paciullo, has died". news.com.au. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
- ^ "Liverpool leader | Liverpool Leader | Daily Telegraph".