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Andrew Tink Andrew Tink i(A125896 works by) (a.k.a. A. A. Tink)
Born: Established: 1953 ;
Gender: Male
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1 1 y separately published work icon Honeysuckle Creek : The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step Andrew Tink , Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2018 17116334 2018 single work biography

'Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Neil Armstrong took his first step.

'Part biography and part personal history, this book makes a significant contribution to Australia’s role in space exploration and reveals a story little known until now.

'As Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr, the director of flight operations for Apollo 11, acknowledged: ‘The name Honeysuckle Creek and the excellence which is implied by that name will always be remembered and recorded in the annals of manned space flight’.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 5 y separately published work icon Lord Sydney: The Life and Times of Tommy Townshend Andrew Tink , Melbourne - North : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2011 Z1840196 2011 single work biography 'When the British Cabinet accepted his recommendation that convicts be sent to Botany Bay, Lord Sydney—Thomas Townshend—instructed the Treasury 'forthwith' to provide for the First Fleet.

A John Bull figure, full of bumptious ambition and self-confidence, 'Tommy' Townshend spent most of his working life in parliamentary opposition. He sympathised with the American colonists while holding true to British interests, and was made a peer in 1783 for his key role in settling the peace between Americans and Britons. Among other things, he saw to it that Canada's boundary with the United States was drawn through the Great Lakes, not further north, as the Americans had demanded.

Townshend chose the name Sydney for his barony in memory of his distant uncle Algernon Sidney, who had been beheaded in 1683 for writing 'the people of England...may change or take away kings'. As a cabinet minister, though, he was measured and capable, displaying 'the rare faculty of perceiving intuitively, the latent powers in the men with whom he came in contact'. His choices of Henry Strachey to negotiate the peace with America and Arthur Phillip to lead Australia's first European settlement were inspired.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Policy Hurts Writers on the Margins Andrew Tink , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 8 October 2009; (p. 12)
1 10 y separately published work icon William Charles Wentworth : Australia's Greatest Native Son Andrew Tink , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1610493 2009 single work biography
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