Tony Mulder

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]

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.[3] He has served as an alderman on the Clarence City Council since 2005.[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 contested the new seat of Prosser at the 2018 periodic election.[9]