Inducted into the Heritage Roll of Honour 2007
Inducted into the Heritage Roll of Honour 2007
Education: Huonville Area School – St Virgil’s College (1950-52)
Family: married to Margaret (1955), seven children and seventeen grandchildren
Career
- Clerk ES&A Bank Huonville 1953
- National Service (promoted to rank of Lieutenant with the RAASC during period of post national service) - 1954-59
- Physical Education Teacher Burnie & Smithton High Schools - 1955-69
- Manager – Circular Head Swimming Pool at Smithton - 1962-75
- Feature writer with Advocate Newspaper - 1965-78
- Sales representative – AMP Society - 1969-81
Tasmanian Parliament
- Member of Legislative Council of Tasmanian Parliament
- Representing the electorates of Russell and Murchison - 1981-2005
- Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council - 1986-89 & 1996-98
- Deputy Leader of Government in the Legislative Council - 1992-96
- Chair of the Joint house Public Accounts Committee - 1999-2005
- Member of Parliamentary Committee enquiring into and reporting on Public land use
- Land Tax reform
- Review of role of Legislative Council
- Forestry Operations
- Aboriginal Lands
Post Parliament
- Feature Writer with Advocate Newspaper - 2006-07
- Consultant to Industry - 2007
Sporting Involvements
- Hobart Football Club 1953-55
- Represented TFL (southern league)
- Burnie Football Club 1956-57
- Best & Fairest Burnie Football Club - 1956 & 1957
- Playing Coach of Smithton Football Club - 1958-67 (club won 8 Circular Head Association premiership)
- Non-playing coach Smithton Football Club - 1968-69 (one premiership in this period)
- Chair – Australian Amateur Diving Association 1976-78
Community Involvement
- Member of Wynyard Rotary Club
- Member of Wynyard Probus Club
- After dinner speaker
From the Hobart Mercury:
Former Legislative Council president Jim Wilkinson paid tribute to Mr Fletcher’s many years of service to the community. “Tony Fletcher was a man of great wisdom and bought to all debates a level of thought and consideration rarely seen in our parliament,” he said.
“He was an ‘old school’ conservative independent who fought for his constituents and never lost sight of the struggles his community faced, while balancing this with the best interests of Tasmania.
“He showed me and many of my contemporaries in the chamber how to act, how to be a good member and most of all how to represent your electorate.”
