Roy Turner (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Roy Turner (Australian politician)
- Roy Frederick Turner AO (7 September 1922 – 15 June 2004) was an Australian politician.
- He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1984. Turner was born in Surry Hills, and was educated at the University of Sydney where he received a Bachelor of Law.
- He worked as a solicitor, establishing Turner, Freeman and Partners as his firm.
- In 1939 he joined the Labor Party.
- In 1958 he was a member of the Sydney Mental Health Tribunal, and from 1963 was a member of the Council of the Law Society of New South Wales.
- The author of several books, he was also active in Aboriginal affairs, founding the Co-operative for Aboriginals in 1956 and the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service in 1971.
- In 1976 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council serving until 1984.
- He died in 2004 at Strathfield.He visited the Soviet Union in 1978 and wrote a book based on his observations titled Law in the USSR.
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