Tony Dean has extensive experience in community leadership and has been heavily involved in Western Australia's South West region.
He is president of the Shire of Nannup, was a Labor Party Member for Bunbury, and spent 7 years as a councillor at the City of Bunbury. He is also president of the South West Local Government Association, president of the Warren Blackwood Alliance of Councils, and a state councillor for the Western Australian Local Government Association.