The last giant: Doug Anthony dead at 90
The last giant: Doug Anthony dead at 90
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DOUG ANTHONY: 1929 - 2020
The last giant of the Country and National parties, Doug Anthony, has died, severing one of the country s last remaining links to the Menzies government.
Mr Anthony, the nation s longest-served deputy prime minister who was a key player in the constitutional crisis of 1975 who also took important steps to modernise the then Country Party, died on Sunday aged 90.
Doug Anthony at his Sunnydale property in northern NSW soon after his retirement.
Credit:Peter Morris
His family confirmed in a statement that Mr Anthony died peacefully in the Heritage Lodge aged care home in Murwillumbah on the NSW North Coast which he represented as the member for Richmond between 1957 and 1984.