Robert John Pyne (born 23 April 1967) is an Australian politician who currently serves as a member of Cairns Regional Council, representing Division 5.

[4] He had a spinal cord injury in December 1991 through breaking his neck diving into shallow water when he was 23 years old, which resulted in him becoming quadriplegic.

After attaining his degrees he worked as Regional Disability Liaison Officer at James Cook University Cairns before becoming a politician.

[11] Division 3 includes the suburbs of Bayview Heights, Lamb Range, Mount Sheridan, White Rock and Woree.

[12] In March 2014 a Local Government formal complaint was filed against him for breaching Cairns Regional Council's media policy rules.

On 7 March 2016, after being publicly critical of a number of government decisions, Pyne resigned from the Labor Party, saying that he was "no longer prepared to be told how to vote by someone from Brisbane".

The issue of abortion was referred to the Queensland Law Reform Commission to consider a new framework for legislation in relation to the termination of pregnancy.