Robert Ian Oatley AO, BEM (11 June 1928 – 10 January 2016) was an Australian businessman, winemaker, yachtsman and philanthropist.
He bought Hamilton Island, Queensland in 2003 for $200 million, he also owned retirement homes and a villa in Sardinia, Italy.
[2] and a great grandson of James Oatley,[citation needed] Lord Mayor of Sydney and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales.
[citation needed] Oatley's father was employed in the wool industry, which meant spending much of his working life was spent travelling in rural New South Wales.
[citation needed] In his early 40s Bob bought this Papuan Division of the Colyer company from his employer and changed its name to Angco.
Oatley then expanded his company both in Papua and by establishing trade with northern hemisphere countries, an enterprise which earned him a British Empire Medal about fifteen years later, in 1985.