Dennis Stevenson

Dennis Stevenson
Member of ACT Legislative Assembly
In office 8 May 1989 – 18 February 1995 Serving with Berry, Collaery, Connolly, Duby, Follett, Grassby, Humphries, Jensen, Kaine, Kinloch, Maher, Moore, Nolan, Prowse, Stefaniak, Wood, Whalan
Preceded by	new constituency
Succeeded by	multi-member constituencies
Personal details
Born	Dennis Ross Stevenson 12 November 1946 Newcastle, New South Wales
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Abolish Self-Government Coalition
Profession	Policeman, soldier, manager, politician
Military service
Allegiance	Australia
Service/branch	Citizen's Military Forces
Years of service	1966 – 1973
Unit	1st/19th Battalion Royal NSW Regiment
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Dennis Ross Stevenson (born 12 November 1946) was an Australian politician. He was elected in the inaugural 1989 general election to serve in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, on a platform of abolishing self-government in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Ironically, Stevenson was re-elected at the 1992 general election and resigned from the ACT Legislative Assembly in 1995.

Biography

Stevenson was born in Newcastle, New South Wales and worked as a photogrammatist, company director, an operator of health centres and trainer in sales, marketing, public speaking and motivation. He has also worked as a life coach, business consultant, counselor and laborer. Immediately prior to his parliamentary career he served in the NSW Police Force from 1965 to 1973,^[1] primarily training personnel in intelligence matters. Stevenson served in the reserve forces of the Australian Army between 1966 and 1973.^[1]

Following his election to the ACT Legislative Assembly, Stevenson worked on many issues including abolishing the newly established self-government in the Australian Capital Territory, campaigning against the Hare-Clark voting system, for the introduction of citizens' initiated referenda, banning computer porn and the fledgling pornography industry in the ACT^[3] and other human-rights issues. After resigning from the assembly in 1995 he traveled extensively before returning to Canberra.

Since his political career Stevenson moved to Queensland and campaigned on civil-liberties issues including against the water fluoridation^[4] and highlighting the decline of Australian democracy. Stevenson was the compere at the Inverell Forum between 1992 and 2008.^[5]

References

1. "Members of the First Assembly" (PDF). Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory. September 1990. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
2. "Members of the Second Assembly" (PDF). Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory. April 1993. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
3. Hills, Ben (9 August 1990). "Forget homework, computer kids discover electro-porn". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
4. Stevenson, Dennis (3 July 2008). "Fluoride: 12 Reasons to reject fluoridation!". Love for Life. Arthur & Fiona Cristian. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
5. "Inverell Forum". 2008. Retrieved 23 January 2010.

External links

• Paranoid Con-Men
• Adams, Phillip (2010). Backstage Politics (paperback). Penguin Group Australia.