Bert Lacey

Robert Herbert "Bert" Lacey (12 January 1900 – 2 November 1984) was an Australian politician. Born in Maryborough, Victoria, he was educated at state schools and then at Wendouree Agricultural College in Ballarat. He became a construction worker, bush worker and miner, and served in the military in 1918. Having moved to Tasmania, he was an organiser of the state's Australian Workers' Union 1938-1946 and Secretary of the Tasmanian Labor Party 1947-1965. He briefly served as Labor member for Denison in the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1959. In 1964, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Tasmania. He held the seat until his defeat in 1970, effectively by independent Michael Townley. Lacey died in 1984.