What is Austin Asche?
'''Keith John Austin Asche''', [[Order of Australia|AC]], [[Queen's Counsel|QC]]<ref>[http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/awards/docs/order_of_wearing.pdf ''Order of Wearing''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140211203319/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/awards/docs/order_of_wearing.pdf |date=2014-02-11 }}, Page 5, Note 3.</ref> (28 November 1925 &ndash; 16 December 2024) was an Australian politician. He was born in [[Melbourne]]. He served as [[Administrator of the Northern Territory]] from 1993 through 1997. He was the third [[Chief Justice of the Northern Territory|Chief Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the Northern Territory]] serving from 1986 through 1987. Asche was appointed a Knight of the Order of St. John in 1993 and made a [[Order of Australia|Companion of the Order of Australia]] in 1994. He was made Honorary Freeman of the City of [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=New Freeman of the City of Darwin|url=http://www.darwin.nt.gov.au/sites/default/files/media/FreemanAustinAscheMA.pdf|website=Darwin City Council|publisher=Darwin City Council|access-date=9 November 2016|archive-date=20 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220071028/http://www.darwin.nt.gov.au/sites/default/files/media/FreemanAustinAscheMA.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Asche died on 14 December 2024, at the age of 99.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tribune |first=The National |date=2024-12-16 |title=Statement From Government House 16 December |url=https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/statement-from-government-house-16-december/ |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=The National Tribune |language=en-AU}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Asche, Austin}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2024 deaths]] [[Category:Administrators of the Northern Territory]] [[Category:Australian judges]] [[Category:Politicians from Melbourne]] {{bio-stub}}