Christopher John Guelph Puplick ( ; born 13 May 1948) is a British-Australian politician, public servant and public intellectual.

Career

From 1975–78, Puplick was the federal president of the Young Liberals. He was appointed to a

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in the

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in July 1978, representing the Liberal Party of Australia, but was defeated at the 1980 election, completing his term in June 1981. He was returned to the Senate at the 1984 election. In the 1990 election, the Call to Australia party made the unusual choice of preferencing the Labor Party above the Liberal Party specifically to prevent Puplick's re-election; Puplick was not re-elected and his term finished in June 1990.

After Parliament

After leaving Parliament, Puplick was appointed President of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board and NSW Privacy Commissioner. He was appointed a

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(AM) in 2001, for contributions to Australian politics and public policy, particularly in relation to human rights and social justice.

Controversy

Puplick resigned his Anti-Discrimination Board and Privacy Commission positions in 2003 following allegations of administrative favouritism involving a personal friend, and a deteriorating relationship with the New South Wales Government.

Memberships, Directorships

* Member,

Australia Council The Australia Council for the Arts, commonly known as the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announced in 1967 as the Austra ...

Theatre Board * Member,

National Institute of Dramatic Art The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is an Australian educational institution for the performing arts is based in Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 1958, many of Australia's leading actors and directors trained at NIDA, including Cat ...

(NIDA) Board of Directors * Chair,

National Film and Sound Archive The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national co ...

Board, 2008–2011 * Chair, Australian National Council on AIDS, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases * NSW Privacy Commissioner, 1999–2003

Publications

*Chris Puplick and R.J. Southey, 1980, ''Liberal Thinking'', Macmillan, Melbourne. *Chris Puplick, 1984, 'Science and Technology', in George Brandis, Tom Harley and Don Markwell (eds), ''Liberals Face the Future: Essays on Australian Liberalism'', Oxford University Press, Melbourne. *John Black, Michael Macklin and Chris Puplick, 1992, �
How Parliament Works in Practice
��, in ''Parliamentary Perspectives 1991'', Papers on Parliament, No. 14, Department of the Senate, February 1992. *Chris Puplick, October 1, 2012, ''Platform Papers 33: Changing Times at NIDA'', Currency Press, .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Puplick, Chris 1948 births Living people Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian Senate Members of the Australian Senate for New South Wales People educated at Manly Selective Campus 20th-century Australian politicians Members of the Order of Australia English emigrants to Australia University of Sydney alumni