Trevor Housley

Trevor Alfred Housley (31 October 191010 October 1968) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department from 1965 until his death in October 1968.

Life and career Trevor Housley was born on 31 October 1910 in Gympie, Queensland.

Housley served for four years as chief airways engineer in the Department of Civil Aviation,

Housley was appointed Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, heading the Postmaster-General's Department, in 1965.

In 1967, he penned Communications in Modern Society, in which he argued that if public administrators could shift from paper communication to phone-calls, it would streamline the service and enable "quickly responsive sensitivity to public need".

At Kew, Melbourne on 10 October 1968, while still in office as Director-General of the Postmaster-General's Department, Housley died of an intracranial haemorrhage.