Anthony "Tony" Liddle (born 1940) is a truck driver and tour guide who has made a significant contribution to the development of Central Australia.
[1] Because of this, Tony and his siblings boarded at the convent and, from 1951 - 1956, St. Mary's Hostel, an institution for half-caste children, and they attended Hartley Street School during the day.
[2] After finishing school, in 1956, Liddle spent a year working in a stock camp at Alcoota Station before getting his truck driver's licence in his father's Morris Commercial.
[3] Starting in 1958 Liddle worked for his father in the families small wood cutting and carrying business, alongside his brothers Bob and Mick.
Liddle speaks about this regularly and is quoted as saying: "All the Aboriginal people in the cattle industry worked like hell until equal pay came through and they were pushed off the stations.