Robert Tickner
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The Honourable Robert Tickner AO |
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| Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs | |
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In office 4 April 1990 – 11 March 1996 |
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| Prime Minister |
Bob Hawke Paul Keating |
| Preceded by | Gerry Hand |
| Succeeded by | John Herron |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Hughes |
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In office 18 February 1984 – 2 March 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Les Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Danna Vale |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 December 1951 Sydney, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Occupation | Lecturer, solicitor |
Robert Edward Tickner AO (born 24 December 1951) is a former Australian Labor Party cabinet minister. He was Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Red Cross from February 2005 to July 2015.
Born in Sydney, Tickner was educated at the University of Sydney. Prior to entering parliament, he worked as a university lecturer at the NSW Institute of Technology from 1974 to 1979, then as principal solicitor for the NSW Aboriginal Legal Service from 1979 to 1984.
Tickner was one of the early and influential members of Friends of the Earth Australia in Sydney in 1975, being the lease owner of a three-storey terrace on Crown St, Surry Hills which became the FoE Sydney bookshop and office. He was convenor of the FoE urban campaign which opposed the Sydney City Council's inappropriate high rise development.
From 1977 to 1984 he was elected as a Labor Councillor on the Sydney City Council, He also served as Deputy Mayor and a brief time as Acting Lord Mayor (in 1983).
After failing to gain victory as ALP candidate for the 1981 Wentworth by-election (which was won by the Liberals' candidate Peter Coleman, former Leader of the NSW Opposition), Tickner was successful in entering the federal parliament at the 1984 Hughes by-election. Bob Hawke appointed Tickner, in 1990, the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs; and he retained this post throughout Paul Keating's government.
Tickner's tenure in office was marred by the Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy. Partly due to this affair, and partly due to the increasing unpopularity of the Keating administration as a whole, Tickner was resoundingly defeated in the 1996 election by Liberal challenger Danna Vale, suffering an 11-point swing against him. He was one of four ministers in the Keating government to lose his seat.
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