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About Michael Darby
- Michael John Darby (born 1 November 1945) is an Australian who has run for political office for the Liberal Party and the Christian Democratic Party.
- He is an active business man, having had business ventures in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Darby is the son of long-serving state Liberal MP Douglas Darby and attended Newington College (1957–1962).
- A former army officer and interpreter, he became active in politics in the 1970s.
- His first run for office was as the Liberal candidate for the safe Labor seat of Werriwa in the 1974 federal election, running against then-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
- He later contested the 1988 Oxley by-election as an independent, and also ran as an independent in Dickson in 1993.
- He subsequently returned to the Liberal Party and ran in the fifth position on the Coalition Senate ticket for New South Wales in 2004.
- In 2009–2010 he was campaign director for the Christian Democratic Party.
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