Bill Lickiss

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix = The Hon

|name = Bill Lickiss

|honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|QGM}}

|image =

|caption =

|office = Deputy Leader of the
Queensland Liberal Party

|term_start = 3 November 1983

|term_end = November 1986

|leader = William Knox

|predecessor = Angus Innes

|successor = Angus Innes

|office1 = Attorney-General of Queensland
and Minister for Justice

|term_start1 = 13 August 1976

|term_end1 = 23 December 1980

|premier1 = Joh Bjelke-Petersen

|predecessor1 = William Knox

|successor1 = Sam Doumany

|office2 = Minister for Survey, Valuation, Urban and Regional Affairs

|term_start2 = 10 March 1975

|term_end2 = 13 August 1976

|premier2 = Joh Bjelke-Petersen

|predecessor2 = Position Created

|successor2 = John Greenwood

|constituency_AM3 = Moggill

|assembly3 = Queensland Legislative

|term_start3 = 1 November 1986

|term_end3 = 2 December 1989

|predecessor3 = New seat

|successor3 = David Watson

|constituency_AM4 = Mount Coot-tha

|assembly4 = Queensland Legislative

|term_start4 = 1 June 1963

|term_end4 = 1 November 1986

|predecessor4 = Kenneth Morris

|successor4 = Lyle Schuntner

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|7|31|df=y}}

|birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

|death_date = {{death date and age|1993|2|22|1924|7|31|df=y}}

|death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

|restingplace =

|birthname = William Daniel Lickiss

|nationality = Australian

|party = Liberal Party

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|spouse = Elma Gwen Campbell (m.1948)

|children =

|alma_mater = University of Queensland

|occupation = Valuer, Sugarcane farmer, Pineapple farmer, Survey draftsman

|relations =

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William Daniel Lickiss {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|QGM}} (31 July 1924 – 22 February 1993) was an Australian politician.

Early life

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.

Political career

In 1963 he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for Mount Coot-tha.

On 10 March 1975, he was appointed to the Cabinet as Minister for Survey, Valuation, Urban and Regional Affairs, with a further promotion to Attorney-General and Minister for Justice on 13 August 1976. He lost his Cabinet position in 1980 but became Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in 1983, serving until 1986. In that year, after a redistribution split the seat of Mount Coot-tha, he became the first member for Moggill. He retired from politics in 1989.

Personal life

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.

As at 1977, he was a Fellow of the Commonwealth Institute of Valuers, Australian Institute of Cartographers and the Royal Australian Planning Institute.{{Gazette QLD | title = Proclamation | volume = 256 | page = 1533–1535 | date = 16 December 1977}}. He is listed in the Ministry as "The Honourable William Daniel Lickiss, Q.G.M., F.C.I.V., F.A.I.C., Hon. F.R.A.P.I."

Lickiss died in Brisbane in 1993.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=3269702586|accessdate= 10 February 2015}}

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