Trevor Housley

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]