Former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Doug Anthony has died at the age of 90. Mr Anthony was leader of the Country Party/National Party for 12 years and deputy prime minister for nine, influencing Coalition policies for much of the 1970s and 1980s. In a statement, Mr Anthony's family said he died peacefully in the Heritage Lodge aged-care home in Murwillumbah, northeast NSW. "Although Doug was privileged to serve the people of Australia in high office, he always considered his family to be his greatest legacy and contribution to the world," the family statement said. "He was very much a man of the Tweed region, and it is fitting that he should depart this life from within the community that he loved so much.