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Phil Cleary (Philip Ronald Cleary) was born on 8 December, 1952 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian rules footballer and politician, born 1952. Discover Phil Cleary's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

Popular As Philip Ronald Cleary
Occupation Footballer and Teacher
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 8 December, 1952
Birthday 8 December
Birthplace Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1952

Philip Ronald Cleary (born 8 December 1952) is an Australian commentator on politics and sport, particularly Australian rules football, and a former independent politician elected at the 1992 Wills by-election.

Cleary first came to notice as a prominent player and coach in Victoria's second-level Australian rules football competition, the Victorian Football Association, for the Coburg Football Club.

1975

He debuted with the club in 1975, playing 205 games—second only to Dave StarBuck in Coburg club history—and kicking 317 goals.

1979

He was a member of the 1979 premiership side and losing 1980 side.

1984

He coached the club between 1984 and 1992 (captain coach between 1984 and 1987, upon which he retired as a player), before leading them to back-to-back premierships in 1988–89.

1986

In the 1986 VFA grand final against Williamstown he was sensationally ordered off, only to be found not guilty at the tribunal.

He coached the VFA representative side on five occasions without losing a game.

He was one of the most well-known players in the VFA in his era, and was instantly recognisable from the thick beard he wore throughout his career.

He has had various coaching and mentoring roles in the Essendon District Football League over the past 10 years.

1987

Cleary was a part of the ABC’s telecast of VFA/VFL football as a match-day commentator from 1987 until the ABC lost the rights in 2014, juggling coaching and commentary duties for the first five seasons.

He conducted interviews and acted as a boundary rider for the match of the day, writes a weekly column for the football magazine Inside Football, and regularly appears in the media on a range of social and political issues.

He has campaigned to stop male violence against women since his sister was murdered by her former partner in 1987.

He is a freelance journalist and public speaker and is the author of three books: Cleary Independent, Just Another Little Murder, and Getting Away with Murder.

1992

At the Wills by-election of 11 April 1992, caused by the resignation of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Phil Cleary was elected as an independent to the Australian House of Representatives from a field of 22 candidates, becoming the only non-Labor member to have ever held the seat.

However, his election was successfully challenged in the High Court and declared void on 25 November, as Cleary was on unpaid leave from the Victorian Education Department, and the Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia forbids people employed by the Crown from standing for election.

A second by-election was not held, as a general election was expected within a few months.

1993

At the 1993 Australian federal election, Cleary again stood as a candidate and was elected for a second time.

Cleary's vote of 22.7% was a decrease of 6.7% from the 29.4% he polled in 1993, on different boundaries.

1996

Cleary lost the seat to Labor at the 1996 federal election.

Wills had undergone a redistribution, by adding territory to the division, which weakened Cleary's notional position against Labor.

1999

While advocating an Australian Republic, he broke with the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) over disagreement about how the President of Australia should be chosen, forming a group called "Real Republic", which advocated direct election of the President as opposed to the model advocated by Malcolm Turnbull of the ARM, under which the President would be chosen by a joint sitting of the Parliament, and which was the model proposed in the 1999 referendum.

2010

Cleary nominated to contest the seat of Brunswick at the 2010 Victorian State Election as an Independent.

In a much-published defamation case in 2010, it was alleged that, in his 2005 book Getting Away with Murder, Cleary had accused barrister Dyson Hore-Lacy of helping a man who killed his own wife to manufacture a provocation defence.

Hore-Lacy won the case and was awarded $630,000 in damages.