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Tony Mulder | |
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| Member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Rumney | |
| In office 7 May 2011 –6 May 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Lin Thorp |
| Succeeded by | Sarah Lovell |
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| Born | Teunis Mulder 9 May 1955 Rotterdam,Netherlands [1] |
| Political party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations | Liberal |
| Occupation | Police officer |
Teunis"Tony" Mulder APM (born 9 May 1955) is an Australian politician and perennial candidate. 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] the lower house seat of Franklin at the 2024 state election, [10] and the legislative council seat of Pembroke in the 2025 periodic election.
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