Edmund Rouse

Edmund Alexander Rouse (1926 – 28 July 2002) was an Australian businessman and political figure. He spent three decades as the chairman of Tasmanian media company ENT, before being embroiled in a political scandal in 1989.

Early life Edmund Alexander Rouse was born in 1926.

Career Rouse was managing director of media company ENT Ltd from 1969, and was later made chairman. He established television station TNT-9 in 1962. He spent 18 months in prison.

Honours In the 1988 New Year Honours, he was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE). The honour was later rescinded.

Personal life Rouse married Dorothy Rolph, daughter of Gordon and granddaughter of newspaper proprietor William Robert Rolph (1864–1948), who was associated with the Launceston Examiner in 1897.

Tasmanian journalist Stephen Tanner wrote in a 1995 article that the scandal had "undermined the tremendous contribution which Rouse had made to the Australian media industry over many years, through his involvement with the Newspaper Advertising Bureau, the Australian Press Council, the Regional Dailies Association, and the Media Council of Australia. It also undermined the major contribution Rouse had made to Tasmania over the same period".

Barbara Valentine of the University of Tasmania wrote that he was always a great champion of Tasmania.