Patrick Nicol Troy (22 January 1936 – 24 July 2018) was an Australian academic who served as Vale Professor Emeritus at

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. He was born in

Geraldton, Western Australia Geraldton (Wajarri: ''Jambinu'', Wilunyu: ''Jambinbirri'') is a coastal city in the Mid West region of the Australian state of Western Australia, north of the state capital, Perth. At June 2018, Geraldton had an urban population of 37,648. ...

, the eldest son of Patrick Laurence Troy and Mabel Nielson, who had married in the previous year. Troy was raised in

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and trained as a civil engineer. Before joining academia, he was secretary of the Maritime Services Union in Perth and a founder of the Trades and Labour Council of Western Australia. He joined the faculty of

in 1965 and retired in 2011. Over the course of his career, Troy was named an

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and granted fellowship by the

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. He became Deputy Secretary in the Federal Department of Urban and Regional Development in the Whitlam government. He died in Canberra on 24 July 2018. He held public appointments including Deputy Chairman of the Australian Housing Corporation 1984-1992, Member of the Australian Housing Council 1995, Member of the Board of Inquiry into the Administration of Leasehold in the Australian Capital Territory 2003-2006 and Member of the ACT Planning and Land Council. Troy was made a

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(AC) posthumously in the

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for "eminent service to urban and regional planning, to environmental sustainability and social justice policy, and as a mentor and role model".

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