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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Bill Lickiss
- William Daniel Lickiss (31 July 1924 – 22 February 1993) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to William George Lickiss and Lillian Rita, née Green.
- He attended Clempton Park Public School and Canterbury Boys' High School before the family moved to Brisbane.
- He studied at the University of Queensland and became a draftsman with the Queensland Survey Office and then the Department of Territories in Darwin.
- During World War II he served in the Royal Australian Air Force as a navigator and intelligence officer.
- Returning to Queensland, he farmed sugarcane and pineapples and joined the Liberal Party.
- In 1963 he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Mount Coot-tha.
- On 3 October 1975 he was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his efforts to rescue a soldier during the flooding in Brisbane the previous year.
- In 1975 he was appointed to the front bench as Minister for Survey, Valuation, Urban and Regional Affairs, with a further promotion to Attorney-General and Minister for Justice in 1976.
- He lost his front bench position in 1980 but became Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in 1983, serving until 1986.
- In that year he also moved from his seat of Mount Coot-tha to Moggill.
- He retired in 1989.
- Lickiss died in Brisbane in 1993.
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