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- George Paciullo, OAM (born 20 February 1934) is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Liverpool in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1989, and served as a minister from 1984 to 1988. Paciullo was born in Sydney to market gardener Sisto Paciullo and his wife Immocalata, who had come to Australia from Calabria during the Great Depression. He attended public schools at Liverpool and Homebush, and was employed as a survey draftsmen with the New South Wales Soil Conservation Service upon his graduation in 1951. He underwent national service in 1952 and subsequently served in the Citizen Military Forces for three years. In 1958, he joined the Australian Labor Party, and the following year was elected to Liverpool City Council. On 3 November 1964, he married Janette, with whom he had a son. He continued as both a draftsman and a councillor until 1971. In 1971, the member for the local state seat of Liverpool, Jack Mannix, retired, and Paciullo was preselected as the replacement Labor candidate. He was elected easily, and was never troubled in his own electorate. In 1973 he became Shadow Minister for Sport, Recreation and Tourism, holding this position again 1976–83. When Labor won government in 1983 he was appointed Minister for Roads, moving to Industry and Small Business from February to April 1984 and then to Consumer Affairs and Aboriginal Affairs. In 1986 he was shifted to Police and Emergency Services. After Labor lost government to the Coalition in 1988, Paciullo was considered as a candidate for party leader but retired when Bob Carr was elected; the by-election held to replace him was acrimonious as the former member for Penrith, Peter Anderson, was imposed on the electorate after a protracted preselection dispute between the Left's Paul Lynch and the Right's Mark Latham. Following his retirement, Paciullo returned to local politics, serving again on Liverpool City Council as Mayor from 1994 to 2003. On 14 June 1999 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia, and on 21 November 2003 was awarded the Centenary Medal. He was appointed to the Board of the NRMA in 2000. On 26 May 2002 he was made a life member of the Labor Party.
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