Albert John Schultz was an Australian politician.
15 Facts About Alby Schultz
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Alby Schultz was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from October 1998 to August 2013, representing the Division of Hume in New South Wales.
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Alby Schultz was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was a meat processing worker before entering politics.
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Alby Schultz was a field officer for the Liberal Party and a member of the Cootamundra Shire Council.
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Alby Schultz was the member for Burrinjuck in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1998, before being elected to represent Hume at the 1998 federal election.
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Alby Schultz was returned at the 2001,2004,2007 and 2010 elections.
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Alby Schultz gained national media attention in the lead up to the privatisation of Telstra claiming that he would not support the legislation but would not "cross the floor".
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Alby Schultz was initially a supporter of Prime Minister John Howard but as a result of being overlooked for promotion by Howard, Alby Schultz in 2005 changed his allegiance to Howard's heir apparent Peter Costello.
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However a year later in 2006, Alby Schultz accused Costello of disloyalty to Howard following the revelation of a deal of when Howard would hand over the Prime Ministership to Costello.
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Alby Schultz was one of the several Liberal Party politicians along with Peter Dutton, Don Randall, Wilson Tuckey, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Dennis Jensen and Sophie Mirabella, who boycotted Parliament on the day that the formal apology to the Stolen Generations was made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
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Alby Schultz apologised in June 2009 for a physical confrontation with one of his Liberal parliamentary colleagues in a party room meeting in Parliament House.
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Alby Schultz had been angered by a remark made by Chris Pearce, the member for Aston in Victoria, during a debate about whether the Liberal Party should run candidates against National Party MPs.
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Alby Schultz later apologised to Pearce and the entire party room for the incident.
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Alby Schultz was a staunch monarchist and long fought against the movement to make Australia a republic.
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Not long before his retirement, in July 2013, Alby Schultz was diagnosed with inoperable liver and oesophageal cancer.