Douglas McClelland

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Douglas (Doug) McClelland (b. 5 August 1926) was elected to the Australian Senate as a member of the Australian Labor Party on 1 July 1962, representing New South Wales. Manager of Government Business in the Senate from 9 July 1974, Minister for the Media in the Whitlam Government until 6 June 1975, and then Special Minister of State, he also served as President of the Senate from 21 April 1983 until his resignation on 23 January 1987. He went on to serve as Australian High Commissioner in London.

He was awarded the Douglas Wilkie Medal for services to non-football in 1973 by the Anti-Football League. The accolade was presented after McClelland introduced a points system for television programming, which was to have an unfavourable effect of football coverage.

His son Robert McClelland currently holds the seat of Barton in the Australian House of Representatives.