Education
Aquinas College, Perth.
Aquinas College, Perth.
Amongst other roles, he was the shire president of the Shire of Cue, in Western Australia"s Mid West region, for a period in the early 2000s. Wyatt also stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Kalgoorlie at the 1996 federal election. Wyatt was born in 1940 to a white Australian father and an Aboriginal Australian mother.
He was removed from his mother soon after he was born, and spent his early childhood at the Moore River Native Settlement.
He attended school at Sister Kate"s, Castledate, Clontarf and Aquinas College, Perth. After serving in the Royal Australian Air Force (Royal Australian Air Force) he moved to Papua New Guinea in 1963, where he worked as a teacher, principal and public servant until coming back to Australia in 1976.
Wyatt"s son, Ben Wyatt, who was later elected to Western Australia"s Legislative Assembly, was born during his time in Proportional navigation guidance. Between 1976 and 1979 he was Chief Executive Officer of the Western Australian Aboriginal Legal Service, later serving as Acting General Manager of the Aboriginal Development Commission. He was Commissioner of the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority and Chief Executive Officer of its successor the Department of Aboriginal Affairs (now Department of Indigenous Affairs).
In the early 2000s Wyatt was President of the Shire of Cue.
In 2008 Wyatt came of retirement to work as a Court Officer for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Laverton. Wyatt was at one stage Governor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. Wyatt died on 25 September 2014.
During the 1980s Wyatt attempted to gain preselection for a Senate seat.
At the 1996 Federal Election he stood as a Liberal Party of Australia candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Kalgoorlie.