Terrence Gordon Aulich (born 5 October 1945) is a former Australian Labor Party politician who represented the Division of Wilmot (now the Division of Lyons) in the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1976–82) and the state of Tasmania in the Federal Senate (1984–93). Early life Born in Bathurst, New South Wales, where his father Gordon (known as the Baron) was based in the Army, Aulich grew up in Scottsdale, Tasmania, earned a B.A. from the University of Tasmania and worked as a teacher before entering politics. Career Politics Aulich was elected in the 1976 Tasmanian election and then re-elected in 1979, before being defeated in 1982. While in the Tasmanian parliament he held a number of ministerial positions in the Lowe and Holgate governments, including Administrative Services, Industrial Relations and Manpower Planning, Primary Industry, the Environment, Water Resources, Construction, Education and the Arts. In 1982 Aulich was appointed by the National Executive of the Australian Labor Party to be the State Secretary of the Tasmanian ALP with a brief to rewrite party rules, increase membership and rebuild the finances of the State Branch. In the 1984 federal election, Aulich successfully stood for the Australian Senate, beginning his term as Senator on 1 December 1984. He was re-elected in 1987, but defeated in the 1993 election, his term as Senator expiring on 30 June 1993. His defeat was due to a preselection which demoted him to an unwinnable position on the ALP ticket. Knowing full well that he would not be reelected with his placing on the ALP ticket, Senator Aulich made his valedictory speech in the Senate in late 1992 despite still being a candidate at the 1993 election. During his term in the Senate he chaired a number of key Committees such as Education, Employment and Training, the ALP Caucus Committee on Legal Affairs, the Industrial Relations Committee and the Select Committee on the Australia Card which recommended the creation of the Privacy Act, the Tax File Number system, 100 points bank account verification and other anti-fraud and privacy protection measures. The then Labor Government implemented those recommendations. Aulich also chaired the ALP caucus committee which recommended to Cabinet that gay people should legally be permitted to enter or remain in the Armed Forces. Business In 1993 Aulich set up Aulich and Co, strategic advisors to a large number of corporate and not-for-profit organisations such as IBM, AMCOR, Glaxo-Wellcome, the