Charles Ernest Culley CMG (16 April 1877 – 10 June 1949) was an Australian politician.

He later worked as a miner at Broken Hill, Beaconsfield and Tullah and married Mary Jane Pope, in 1906.

When Joseph Lyons resigned from the Scullin Ministry in March 1931, Culley became Assistant Minister for Transport and War Service Homes, but in June he resigned in protest at cabinet's support for the fiscally-conservative Premiers' Plan to deal with the Great Depression.

In 1946, he did not seek re-election to the ministry due to his poor health and he retired from parliament in August 1948.

[11] He died at the Hobart suburb of New Town in 1949; a state funeral was held at St David's' Cathedral and he was cremated at the Cornelian Bay Crematorium.