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Robert Tickner Robert Tickner i(A26224 works by)
Born: Established: 1951 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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Former Australian Labor Party cabinet minister, who served from 1984 to 1996. Prior to his election to parliament, he had been a university lecturer at the NSW Institute of Technology (1974-1979) and solicitor for the NSW Aboriginal Legal Service (1979-1984). After leaving parliament, he served as chief executive of the Australian Red Cross (2005-2015).

In 2020, Tickner released a memoir about his search for his birth parents.

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