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.
Trevor Housley | |
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Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department | |
In office 9 December 1965 – 10 October 1968 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Trevor Alfred Housley 31 October 1910 Gympie, Queensland |
Died | 10 October 1968 Kew, Melbourne, Victoria | (aged 57)
Resting place | Boroondara Cemetery |
Nationality | Australian |
Spouse | Susan Maureen Reilly (m. 1935) |
Occupation | Public servant |
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]
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]