Earle Bailey

{{Short description|Australian politician (1941–2023)}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}

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| name = Earle Bailey

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|OAM}}

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| constituency_AM1 = Toowong

| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative

| term_start1 = 22 October 1983

| term_end1 = 1 November 1986

| predecessor1 = Ian Prentice

| successor1 = Denver Beanland

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|10|05|df=y}}

| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|07|08|1941|10|05|df=y}}

| death_place = Queensland, Australia

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| birthname = Earle Wilfred Bailey

| nationality = Australian

| party = National Party

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| spouse = Penelope Edith Reilly (m.1966)

| known_for =

| occupation = Barrister

| relations = Sir Earle Page (grandfather)

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Earle Wilfred Bailey OAM (5 October 1941 – 8 July 2023) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1983 to 1986.

==Early life==

Earle Wilfred Bailey was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 5 October 1941, the son of W.B. Bailey-Tart and his wife Mary Ethel (née Page). His maternal grandfather was Sir Earle Page, 11th Prime Minister of Australia in 1939.{{Cite web |last=Bridge |first=Carl |date=9 March 1993 |title=Earle Page: The politician and the man |url=https://www.page.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/EARLE-PAGE-LECTURE.pdf |access-date=3 August 2023 |website=Page Research Centre |page=3 |archive-date=29 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129195700/https://www.page.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/EARLE-PAGE-LECTURE.pdf |url-status=live }}

Bailey was educated at South Grafton Primary School, The Armidale School, and Brisbane Grammar School.

After finishing his education, Bailey worked as a journalist and film producer.

On 28 May 1966, Bailey married Penelope Edith Reilly. The couple had a son and a daughter.