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Angelo Vasta was a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. He took office on 13 February 1984.On 24 October 1988, Mr Vasta either stood down or was stood down as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland after evidence of his friendship with the suspended Queensland Police Commissioner Terence Lewis was given at the Fitzgerald Inquiry a week earlier. .He was formally removed from office on 8 June 1989 by an Act of the Queensland Parliament, the only occasion since Federation that any parliament in Australia has removed a Supreme Court judge.
His son, Ross Vasta, has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2010, and previously served from 2004 to 2007.
Another son, Salvatore Vasta, was appointed as judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia in December 2014 and commenced on 1 January 2015.