Edward Arthur Dunphy QC (18 June 1907—29 January 1989) was a justice within the Australian federal court system.
He married Ethel Marshall Nunn on 19 December 1935, and they were the parents of two sons and three daughters.
In 1949, he was appointed to the Industrial Court and sat on the 1950 Basic Wage case, which made the decision to award a £1 a week pay rise which broke the barrier of £10 a week.
[4][5] and proceeded to sit on a succession of other courts within the federal and territorial jurisdictions until 1983.
He gained some notoriety towards the end of his judicial career for not bending to political will for him to retire when past seventy years of age,[6] following the passing of the 1977 referendum on judicial retirement age.