| Brian Langton | |
| Office: | Minister for Transport |
| Premier: | Bob Carr |
| Predecessor: | Bruce Baird |
| Successor: | Carl Scully |
| Term Start: | 4 April 1995 |
| Term End: | 1 Dececmber 1997 |
| Office2: | Minister for Tourism |
| Premier2: | Bob Carr |
| Predecessor2: | Virginia Chadwick |
| Successor2: | Bob Debus |
| Term Start2: | 4 April 1995 |
| Term End2: | 1 December 1997 |
| Office3: | Minister for Fair Trading |
| Premier3: | Bob Carr |
| Term Start3: | 1 December 1997 |
| Term End3: | 30 April 1998 |
| Predecessor3: | Faye Lo Po' |
| Successor3: | Jeff Shaw |
| Office4: | Minister for Emergency Services |
| Premier4: | Bob Carr |
| Term Start4: | 1 December 1997 |
| Term End4: | 30 April 1998 |
| Predecessor4: | Bob Debus |
| Successor4: | Bob Debus |
| Assembly5: | New South Wales Legislative |
| Constituency Am5: | Kogarah |
| Term Start5: | 22 October 1983 |
| Term End5: | 5 March 1999 |
| Predecessor5: | Bill Crabtree |
| Successor5: | Cherie Burton |
| Office6: | Mayor of Kogarah |
| Term Start6: | 1979 |
| Term End6: | 1980 |
| Office7: | Alderman of Kogarah |
| Term Start7: | 1971 |
| Term End7: | 1983 |
| Birth Date: | 1948 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Maroubra, New South Wales |
| Party: | Labor |
Brian Joseph Langton (24 January 1948 – 17 October 2023) was an Australian Labor Party politician, who served both as mayor of Kogarah in the St George area of Sydney and as the member for Kogarah in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. In 1998 Langton was found by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) to have been involved in corruption, having deceptively lodged travel allowances.[1] [2]
Brian Joseph Langton was born in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra on 24 January 1948. Prior to Parliament, he went to school at Marist Brothers, Kogarah and was an investment banker and manager of a travel company. He showed an early interest in politics, being elected to Kogarah Council in 1971 at the age of just 23. He served on the council for twelve years and was elected mayor in 1979 and 1980.
In 1983, Langton was elected to the New South Wales Parliament as a Labor Party member for Kogarah and served continuously in that role for sixteen years. When Labor formed a government in 1995, Brian Langton was appointed a minister, looking after the portfolios of Transport and Tourism from April 1995 to December 1997 and then Fair Trading and Emergency Services in December 1997.[3]
In April 1998, Langton relinquished his ministerial duties due to his involvement in a political scandal, after the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) found him guilty of corruptly rorting charter plane expenses. The ICAC deemed that Langton had sought advantage for himself by deliberate deception of the Parliamentary Accounts Department.[1] [2] Langton stepped down at the 1999 state election, and left politics with a $90,000 indexed entitlement.[4]
In May 2008, the New South Wales Transport Minister, John Watkins, appointed Langton to the position of Chairman of Sydney Ferries.[1]
Langton was married with three daughters.[3]
Brian Langton died on 17 October 2023.[5] He was 75.[6] [7]