David Dicker

{{Short description|Australian politician (1882–1967)}}

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David Edward Dicker (21 April 1882 – 7 February 1967) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Clarence. In 1909 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Franklin. In 1917 he was charged with treason over anti-British statements, which led to his removal from the Public Works Committee.

In January 1922, the Labor Party refused his nomination for preselection for his seat at the 1922 election over a dispute relating to past organising work with the Australian Workers' Union.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189799787 |title=NOT A CANDIDATE |newspaper=The World |volume=VIII |issue=41 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=17 February 1922 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} He nominated to recontest his seat as an independent, and was expelled from the party for disloyalty in May before going on to lose his seat.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article153337802 |title=LABOR CANDIDATES. |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |volume=XLII |issue=124 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=26 May 1922 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189814811 |title=NEWSPAPER OPINION. |newspaper=The World |volume=VIII |issue=143 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=17 June 1922 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}

He was refused readmission to the Labor Party as late as 1935, but was eventually readmitted.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91709809 |title=LABOR PARTY IN CONFERENCE AT HOBART |newspaper=The Advocate (Australia) |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=7 March 1935 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |page=7 (DAILY) |via=National Library of Australia}} Dicker died in Gordon in 1967.{{cite Tas Parliament |title=Dicker, David Edward |id=dickerd311 |access-date=24 July 2022}}