Milivoj Lajovic

Milivoj Emil "Misha" Lajovic (23 July 1921 – 5 June 2008) was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian Senate for New South Wales from 1975 to 1985, as well as the first migrant from a non-English-speaking background to be elected to the Senate. In parliament, Lajovic served on Senate committees for publications, industry, trade and commerce, education and arts, and estimates, as well as joint committees on public accounts and the Australian Capital Territory.

Lajovic was fiercely anti-socialist and anti-communist, decrying what he viewed as "totalitarianism". He supported migration and was concerned with the working conditions and social isolation experienced by migrants, but was hostile to the idea of multiculturalism, viewing it as divisive. He strongly supported the establishment of SBS by the Fraser government. Lajovic was twice accused by Labor Senators under parliamentary privilege (in 1976 and 1979) of being a Nazi sympathiser, which he fiercely denied. In 1981, he was one of several people named in a dossier tabled in parliament as "war criminals"; when The Daily Telegraph repeated the allegation, he sued them for defamation, resulting in a settlement from the newspaper.