Andrew Arnold Tink BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 LLB

Bachelor of Laws

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 MP (born 13 July 1953) is a former Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician, having served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

New South Wales Legislative Assembly

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 from 1988 to 2007.

Tink was educated at Sydney Grammar School

Sydney Grammar School

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 and was an exchange student at Los Altos High School

Los Altos High School (Los Altos, California)

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, in Los Altos

Los Altos, California

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, California

California

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. There he was the Vice President of the Student Body, but later became class president when former class president, Brian Freeman, resigned mid-term. He was also voted class politician. He received a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 and Bachelor of Laws

Bachelor of Laws

The Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate, or bachelor, degree in law originating in England and offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree...

 from the Australian National University

Australian National University

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. He was previously a barrister

Barrister

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. He is married with two sons.

Tink represented Eastwood

Electoral district of Eastwood

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 from 1988 to 1999 and Epping

Electoral district of Epping

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 from 1999 to 2007, for the Liberal Party of Australia

Liberal Party of Australia

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. He resigned as shadow Attorney General

Attorney General

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 on 20 March 2006, citing health and personal reasons, and did not contest the 2007 State election. He was succeeded by Liberal candidate Greg Smith SC who reclaimed the seat in the 2007 state election.

In 2009, Tink completed the first biography of William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872), Australian explorer, barrister, newspaper publisher, politician and landowner, published by Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin

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. In November 2010 for this work Tink won The Nib' CAL Waverley

Waverley Municipal Council

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Library Award for Literature.