John Pyke

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John Pyke
Born28 August 1940
Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Nationality Australian
Education Newington College
University of Sydney
University of New South Wales
OccupationRetired Law lecturer
Parent(s)Mavis and Lawrence Pyke
Relatives Lillian Pyke (grandmother)

John Richard Pyke (born 28 August 1940) is an Australian physicist and a former university law lecturer. [1] In retirement he still writes about Constitutional Law. [2] He was a Queensland Senate candidate at the 2001 and 2010 Australian Federal Election. [3]

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Family

Pyke was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the first son of three children born to educator Lawrence Pyke and his wife Mavis (née Clarke). [4] He is the grandson of the teacher, journalist and author, Lillian Maxwell Pyke (1881–1927). [5]

Education

From 1952 until 1957, Pyke was educated at Newington College, [6] where his father was Headmaster. [7] He is a BSc from the University of Sydney, [8] an LLB from the University of New South Wales and an LLM from the University of Sydney. [1]

Career

Pyke was a physicist for 15 years before studying law. He then taught law at the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University before moving to the Queensland University of Technology in 1983. He has taught Litigation, Land Law, Family Law, Contracts, Trade Practices, Introduction to Law, History and Philosophy of Law, Law in Context, Jurisprudence, Legal Research and Writing, Legal Institutions and Method, and a number of Constitutional Law subjects. Pyke's main interests lie in the fields of legal reasoning and constitutional law. Pyke has been a consultant to the now-defunct Electoral and Administrative Review Commission and to the independent member for Nicklin, Peter Wellington, on constitutional matters, and has made several submissions to Parliamentary Committees and to the Queensland Constitutional Review Commission. He is the QUT Law School’s coordinator of the Queensland Parliamentary Internship Program, under which students earn credit for doing research for a member or a committee of the Queensland Parliament. [9]

Political candidate

In 2001 Pyke ran for election to the Senate on a Queensland ticket for Republican Party of Australia. At the 2010 Federal election Pyke campaigned for governments to impose stricter limits on the numbers of poker machines allowed per State and for limits on the feed rate and to keep up the pressure on all governments to adopt the Productivity Commission's recommendations, and progressively do more to reduce governments' dependence on gambling taxes. [3]

Publications

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References

  1. 1 2 "John Pyke - Faculty of Law". Queensland University of Technology . Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  2. ↑ Government Powers under a Federal Constitution: Constitutional Law in Australia Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 "John Richard Pyke, Queensland Senate candidate, 2010 Federal Election". My Sunshine Coast. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "Pyke Family Tree". Polyplex. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  5. ↑ "Pyke, Lillian Maxwell (1881–1927)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp161
  7. ↑ "Short History of Newington College". Newington College. Archived from the original on 1 September 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  8. ↑ "Alumni Sidneienses". University of Sydney . Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  9. ↑ "John Pyke - Biography". Queensland University of Technology . Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "John Pyke - Publications". Queensland University of Technology . Retrieved 11 February 2012.
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