Office1: | Member of ACT Legislative Assembly |
Term Start1: | 8 May 1989 |
Term End1: | 18 February 1995 |
Predecessor1: | new constituency |
Successor1: | multi-member constituencies |
Alongside1: | Berry, Collaery, Connolly, Duby, Follett, Grassby, Humphries, Jensen, Kaine, Kinloch, Maher, Moore, Nolan, Prowse, Stefaniak, Wood, Whalan |
Birth Name: | Dennis Ross Stevenson |
Birth Date: | 12 November 1946 |
Birth Place: | , New South Wales |
Nationality: | Australian |
Party: | Abolish Self-Government Coalition |
Profession: | Policeman, soldier, manager, politician |
Allegiance: | Australia |
Branch: | Citizen's Military Forces |
Serviceyears: | 1966 1973 |
Unit: | 1st/19th Battalion Royal NSW Regiment |
Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
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). Stevenson was re-elected at the 1992 general election and resigned from the ACT Legislative Assembly in 1995.
Stevenson was born in, 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 referendums, 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 Forum between 1992 and 2008.[5]