Gilbert Casey

Gilbert Stephen Casey (1856 – 2 October 1946) was a trade unionist, agitator of the early Australian labour movement and a utopian socialist.

With Maria and their two sons, Casey raised cattle at La Novia, "dabbled in sidelines[clarification needed]" at Asunción, and wrote occasional letters and articles for the Australian Labor press.

In February 1886, Casey was associated with the Queensland Maritime Council through the Brisbane Wharf Labourers' Union which he helped form the previous year.

In the newspaper the Judge, he was accused of incest and, in subsequent libel action, he was awarded contemptuous damages which did not cover costs.

He was elected president of the Sociedad Co-operativa Colonizadora Nueva Australia in 1896, though the colony's income improved rapidly after he was replaced by James Craig Kennedy in 1900.