Commodore William Leonard Taylor, AM (born 14 September 1938) is a former Australian naval officer and politician.
He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts from the Campaspe College of Adult Education and Master of Literature from the University of New England.
In 2015, following Macfarlane's attempted defection to the Nationals, he published an opinion piece in The Toowoomba Chronicle, stating he had "regretted my endorsement ever since".
[9] From 1999 to 2003 Taylor served as administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories, based on Christmas Island.
His tenure was relatively eventful, including the Tampa affair of 2001, a possible typhoid outbreak,[10] and the creation of the Christmas Island Detention Centre.