Philip Denny Day was born in Brisbane, Australia and graduated in law from the University of Queensland in 1953. He has studied town and country planning at Sydney University under Denis Winston, as well as been an active member of NSW Department of Local Government, and the Department of Decentralization and Development, where he eventually became Director. Editor and main author of the NSW department's landmark "Report on Selective Decentralization," "The Regional Organization Report," and the NSW supplement to the Commonwealth/State Officials Committee R"eport on Decentralization," he joine...