Tony Mulder

Tony Mulder
APM
Member of the Legislative Council for Rumney
In office
7 May 2011 – 6 May 2017
Preceded byLin Thorp
Succeeded bySarah Lovell
Personal details
Born
Teunis Mulder

(1955-05-09) 9 May 1955 (age 69)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Political partyIndependent Liberal
Other political
affiliations		Liberal
OccupationPolice officer

Teunis "Tony" Mulder APM (born 9 May 1955 in Rotterdam, Netherlands)[1] is an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, representing the electoral division of Rumney from 2011 to 2017.[2] Mulder is currently serving as a councillor on the Clarence City Council since 2018, having previously served as an alderman from 2005 to 2011.[3]

He was born in Rotterdam in 1955, and his family emigrated to Australia in 1957. He studied political science at the University of Tasmania.[1]

Mulder is a former police officer, and was a Commander in the Tasmania Police. He was director of the State Security Unit, the Tasmanian Police counter-terrorism taskforce.[4]

Although running as an independent candidate, Mulder openly retains links to the Liberal Party,[5] for whom he ran as a candidate for Franklin in the 2010 state election.[6] Before the 2010 election, the Labor Party lodged a complaint that Mulder may have breached the Electoral Act when he appeared in a television advertisement wearing a police uniform, giving the impression that he was still a serving police officer. He was cleared of breaching the Electoral Act by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission.[7]

Mulder was defeated by Labor candidate Sarah Lovell at the 2017 election for Rumney.[8] He unsuccessfully contested the new seat of Prosser at the 2018 periodic election,[9] and the lower house seat of Franklin at the 2024 state election.[10]

  1. ^ a b Inaugural speech: Hon. Tony Mulder MLC Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Parliament of Tasmania, 21 June 2011.
  2. ^ Media Release — 2011 Legislative Council Elections – Update Monday 9 May, Tasmanian Electoral Commission, 9 May 2011.
  3. ^ "Councillors". ccc.tas.gov.au.
  4. ^ Annual Report 2008–09 Archived 22 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Tasmania Police.
  5. ^ Neales, Sue: Dramatic tension mounting, The Mercury, 6 May 2011.
  6. ^ 2010 Tasmanian Election – Franklin, ABC News, 2010.
  7. ^ Mulder cleared by Electoral Commission, 936 ABC Hobart, 11 March 2010.
  8. ^ "Labor wins seat of Rumney in Tasmania's Upper House elections". ABC News. 7 May 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  9. ^ "Prosser poll candidates a 'blast from the past'". ABC News. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  10. ^ "Mulder confirms independent run in Franklin". The Mercury. Retrieved 4 April 2024.