George Paciullo was the Labor member for Liverpool in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1989, and served as a minister from 1984 to 1988.
12 Facts About George Paciullo
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George Paciullo attended public schools at Liverpool and Homebush, and was employed as a survey draftsmen with the New South Wales Soil Conservation Service upon his graduation in 1951.
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George Paciullo underwent national service in 1952 and subsequently served in the Citizen Military Forces for three years.
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George Paciullo continued as both a draftsman and a councillor until 1971.
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In 1971, the member for the local state seat of Liverpool, Jack Mannix, retired, and George Paciullo was preselected as the replacement Labor candidate.
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George Paciullo was elected easily, and was never troubled in his own electorate.
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When Labor, under Neville Wran, won government in 1976, George Paciullo was appointed Minister for Roads, moving to Industry and Small Business from February to April 1984 and then to Consumer Affairs and Aboriginal Affairs.
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In 1986, when Wran resigned and Barrie Unsworth succeeded him in the Premiership, George Paciullo became Police and Emergency Services Minister.
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George Paciullo was a candidate for the leadership position, but lost out to Bob Carr.
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Shortly afterwards George Paciullo resigned from parliament; the by-election held to replace him was acrimonious, as the former member for Penrith, Peter Anderson, was chosen as candidate after a protracted preselection dispute between the Left's Paul Lynch and the Right's Mark Latham.
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George Paciullo was appointed to the board of the NRMA in 2000.
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George Paciullo died at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney on 9 October 2012, aged 78, of complications related to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.