Robert Gardner (Victorian politician)

Robert Arthur Gardner (20 November 1916 – 2002) was an Australian politician and community organiser.

He was born in Carlton to accountant Robert Stanley Gardner and Dorothy Elizabeth Jones. He attended Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, becoming a journalist. He edited the Caulfield Mercury from 1937 to 1939 and in 1939 was inaugural general secretary of the Opportunity Club. On 2 May 1942 he married Joyce Olver, with whom he had three sons. In 1945 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the independent member for Ivanhoe, but he was defeated in 1947. He was later secretary of the Town and Country Planning Association of Victoria (1951–64, 1968–70) and its president from 1972 to 1975. He held a wide variety of other positions in local community and business groups.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Gardner, Robert Arthur". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
Victorian Legislative Assembly
New seat Member for Ivanhoe
1945–1947 		Succeeded by
Rupert Curnow
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