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Andrew Tink AM
BA, LLB, Hon DLitt
After eight years as a barrister and nineteen years as an MP, eleven of them on the front bench, Andrew took up writing. His first book, William Charles Wentworth, won the NIB Award for Literature in 2010. His other published works include: Lord Sydney; Air Disaster Canberra, and Australia 1901-2001: a narrative history. Andrew is an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University’s Law School, a trustee of Sydney Living Museums and a member of the Australian National University's Human Research Ethics Committee.
What inspired you to take this role?
When I was an MP, the State Library next door was my refuge from politics. Writing became my creative outlet and the Library a key source of material for my biographies of William Charles Wentworth and Lord Sydney. Indeed so vast is the Library’s collection of material relating to Australia, that it can truly be described as the repository of the nation’s DNA. I owe a great deal to the Library’s staff. And as a member and now as president of the Library Council, I hope to give something back.