Anthony Saviour Aquilina (1 June 1950 – 18 September 2003) was an Australian politician. Tony Aquilina was born in

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and was married to Joanne (later divorced); they had two sons. He worked as a primary school teacher. His then wife Joanne was also a teacher at Jamison High School. A long-time resident of

Jamisontown Jamisontown is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 56 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the City of Penrith, and is part of th ...

Aquilina became a mayor of Penrith where he also worked with and campaigned for

Ross Free Ross Vincent Free (born 7 March 1943) is a former Australian politician who served as a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the seat of Macquarie from 1980 until 1984, then Lindsay from 1984 until 1996. He serv ...

(also a former teacher). He was elected to the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...

as the Labor Party member for the seat of

Mulgoa Mulgoa is a village, located in the local government area of the City of Penrith, in the region of western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mulgoa is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district. Mu ...

. He switched to the seat of St Marys in 1991 after Mulgoa was abolished, but his second term was beleaguered by scandal, and then-Opposition Leader Bob Carr forced him to resign at the 1995 election in order to end the associated bad publicity. In 1996, he was found guilty on fraud charges and was sentenced to one year in prison, which on appeal was commuted to community service. He died in Sydney after a long illness. He is not related to

John Aquilina John Joseph Aquilina (born 12 March 1950, in Malta), a former Australian politician, is a former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Blacktown between 1981 and 1991 and the electorate of Riversto ...

, the former Leader of the House in the Legislative Assembly.

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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales 1950 births 2003 deaths 20th-century Australian politicians Mayors of Penrith, New South Wales {{Australia-Labor-NewSouthWales-MP-stub