Mervyn Herbert (Merv) Thackeray (20 October 1925 – 7 June 2014)[1] was an Australian politician.
He was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1957 until 1972, representing Keppel (1957–1960) and Rockhampton North (1960–1972).
He was disendorsed in January 1972 and ran unsuccessfully as an independent at the 1972 state election.
Ahern further claimed that Thackeray had been leaking Labor tactics to Government Whip Vince Jones.
The three MLAs ran for re-election as independents under the banner of the "True Labor Party", but Thackeray and Bennett were both soundly defeated.