Sir Richard James Fildes (Dick) Boyer, KBE (24 August 1891 – 5 June 1961) was an Australian grazier and broadcasting chief.
[1] From 1945 until his death he served as chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the annual Boyer Lectures on Radio National are named in his honour.
Instead of returning to the ministry, Boyer became a jackeroo and in 1920 acquired a 38,652 acre (15,642 ha) property named Durella, near Morven, Queensland and married his former war nurse Eleanor Muriel Underwood.
The Boyers succeeded as sheep farmers and he became president of the Warrego Graziers' Association in 1934 and, following a visit to Europe in 1935, increased his involvement in the affairs of the wool industry.
He favoured the supposedly superior traditional culture of the mother country, which appealed to upscale audiences that were representative of the nation's elite.