Stephen McBurney (born 14 November 1967) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

field umpire in the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

, and the most recent Australian Building and Construction Commissioner between February 2018 and February 2023. In his umpiring career, he umpired 383 career games in the AFL, up to the completion of the 2011 AFL season. McBurney was named the All Australian Umpire for the 2003 and 2007 seasons and umpired the AFL Grand Final in 2002, 2003, 2007 and

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

.Stephen McBurney Profile at afl.com.au
Accessed on 21 September 2008

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Australian Football League umpires 1967 births Living people Australian public servants 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1960s-stub