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Trevor Housley
Australian public servant (1910–1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Trevor Alfred Housley CBE (31 October 1910 – 10 October 1968) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department from 1965 until his death in October 1968.
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Life and career
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Trevor Housley was born on 31 October 1910 in Gympie, Queensland.[1]
Housley served for four years as chief airways engineer in the Department of Civil Aviation,[2] until 1951 when he joined the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC) as assistant general manager.[2] In 1956, he was appointed to OTC general manager.[1] In the general manager role, Housley led a delegation to the Commonwealth Telecommunications Conference in 1958 which recommended a worldwide telephone cable system be developed.[1] He returned to London in 1960 to convene a management committee responsible for plans to lay the British Commonwealth trans-Pacific cable between Australia and New Zealand.[3]
Housley was appointed Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, heading the Postmaster-General's Department, in 1965.[2][4]
In 1967, he penned Communications in Modern Society, in which he argued that if public administrators could shift from paper communication to phone-calls, it would streamline the service and enable "quickly responsive sensitivity to public need".[5]
At Kew, Melbourne on 10 October 1968, while still in office as Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department, Housley died of an intracranial haemorrhage.[1]
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Awards and honours
1961, Housley was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[1]
In 2012, a street in the Canberra suburb of Casey was named Housley Street in Trevor Housley's honour.[6]
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