| Tony Mulder | |
| Office1: | Member of the Legislative Council for Rumney |
| Term Start1: | 7 May 2011 |
| Term End1: | 6 May 2017 |
| Predecessor1: | Lin Thorp |
| Successor1: | Sarah Lovell |
| Birthname: | Teunis Mulder |
| Birth Date: | 1955 5, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Occupation: | Police officer |
| Party: | Independent Liberal |
| Otherparty: | Liberal |
Teunis "Tony" Mulder (born 9 May 1955 in Rotterdam, Netherlands)[1] is an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, representing the electoral division of Rumney from 2011 to 2017.[2] Mulder is currently serving as a councillor on the Clarence City Council since 2018, having previously served as an alderman from 2005 to 2011.[3]
He was born in Rotterdam in 1955, and his family emigrated to Australia in 1957. He studied political science at the University of Tasmania.
Mulder is a former police officer, and was a Commander in the Tasmania Police. He was director of the State Security Unit, the Tasmanian Police counter-terrorism taskforce.[4]
Although running as an independent candidate, Mulder openly retains links to the Liberal Party,[5] for whom he ran as a candidate for Franklin in the 2010 state election.[6] Before the 2010 election, the Labor Party lodged a complaint that Mulder may have breached the Electoral Act when he appeared in a television advertisement wearing a police uniform, giving the impression that he was still a serving police officer. He was cleared of breaching the Electoral Act by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission.[7]
Mulder was defeated by Labor candidate Sarah Lovell at the 2017 election for Rumney.[8] He unsuccessfully contested the new seat of Prosser at the 2018 periodic election,[9] and the lower house seat of Franklin at the 2024 state election.[10]