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Name	Alec Robertson
Born	21 October, 1889 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died	19 September, 1965 (aged 75) Nambour, Queensland, Australia
Cause of Death	heart disease
Related Entries	[View as tree] Robertson, Alec (son) Robertson, Mavis June (daughter-in-law)
Occupation or Descriptor *	journalist (1908-1932) Queensland, Australia anti-conscriptionist (1916-1917) Queensland, Australia newspaper editor (1920-1932) Queensland, Australia radio station manager (1934-1949) Queensland, Australia
Key Organisations *	Australian Journalists' Association (Qld) (member, ?-?) Australian Journalists' Association (Qld) (president, 1921-1922)
Political Activism *	anti-conscriptionist (1916-1917)
Workplaces *	Daily Mail (Brisbane) newspaper (journalist, ?-?) Standard (Brisbane) newspaper (editor) Courier-Mail (Brisbane) newspaper (journalist, 1908-?) Daily Standard (Brisbane) newspaper (sub-editor, 1912) 4BK radio station (Brisbane) (manager, 1934-1949)

* Dates are approximate

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