1. Johan Wessel Elferink was born on 24 September 1965 and is an Australian politician.
37 Facts About John Elferink
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John Elferink is a former member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly for the Country Liberal Party.
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John Elferink was born in the Netherlands and moved to Australia with his parents and older siblings as a three-year-old in 1968.
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John Elferink's family settled in Darwin, and he subsequently graduated from Casuarina High School.
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In 1983, John Elferink joined the Northern Territory Police as a cadet.
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John Elferink subsequently rose to the rank of Sergeant, and served in both Darwin and Alice Springs.
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In 2008 John Elferink graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New England.
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John Elferink was admitted to the bar in October 2009.
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In 1997, John Elferink won Country Liberal preselection for the rural electorate of MacDonnell after incumbent Labor member Neil Bell announced his retirement.
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On paper, John Elferink faced daunting odds; the ALP held the seat with a majority of 16 points.
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John Elferink picked up enough of Leichleitner's preferences to take the seat on a swing of 18.7 percent.
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John Elferink served in the Shadow Ministry under Opposition Leaders Denis Burke and Terry Mills.
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John Elferink became an increasingly prominent member of the shadow ministry during his first two years in a portfolio.
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However, by early 2003, John Elferink became increasingly frustrated with Burke's leadership who was struggling to maintain his grip on the party at the time.
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In June 2003, John Elferink resigned as Shadow Minister for Local Government and Indigenous Affairs and publicly slammed Burke's leadership, labelling him "arrogant" and calling for him to be replaced by rival Mills.
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John Elferink was rewarded for this support, being made Leader of Opposition Business and Shadow Minister for Community Development, Housing, Local Government, Sport and Recreation, Regional Development and Indigenous Affairs, while maintaining the position of Whip.
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However, facing star candidate and indigenous activist Alison Anderson, John Elferink was heavily defeated, suffering a two-party swing of 20.6 percent.
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John Elferink later served as party director for the CLP.
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John Elferink contested the seat of Port Darwin at 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election, and defeated Labor Party incumbent Kerry Sacilotto.
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John Elferink had courted controversy on a number of occasions with his hands on approach to involving himself in domestic violence occurrences being facetiously labelled "Captain Justice", by local press because of his propensity to personally intervene in domestic violence incidents when they occurred, on one occasion being assaulted himself in defence of domestic violence victim.
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John Elferink introduced "No Body No Parole" laws in the NT, which prevents a convicted murderer from receiving parole when that murderer refused to identify the location of the body to authorities.
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John Elferink introduced controversial 'paperless arrest' laws that saw a substantial fall in the number of assaults occurring in the Darwin CBD.
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Shortly after taking the portfolio John Elferink had brought the Territory Government to a position where the Hospital was commenced under John Elferink's stewardship.
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Mental Health issues were of deep concern to John Elferink who took a number of steps to improve mental health services in the Northern Territory including the jurisdictions first mental health ward for juveniles.
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John Elferink drove the introduction of the Northern Territory's first suicide action plan in an effort to reduce the Territory's tragically high suicide rate.
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On 18 November 2015, John Elferink announced that he would retire at the next election to be held in August 2016.
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John Elferink led the Northern Territory Government's mission in the negotiation processes.
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John Elferink's reforms include introducing the Northern Territory Corrections Industry banner and the Sentenced to a Job program that saw prisoners trained and skilled ready for the work place which they entered while still serving time.
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John Elferink had ordered that Don Dale be shut down in 2014 and detainees were moved into a new facility.
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John Elferink publicly released the Vita review without any legal demand that he do so in the interest of full disclosure.
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In 2013 John Elferink had attempted to introduce international inspectors into the Northern Territory Corrections system by introducing legislation to ratify OPCAT.
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The COMMIT program which John Elferink championed and drove was recognised by the Parole Board of the NT as being a significant contributor to prisoner rehabilitation in the NT.
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John Elferink always maintained his openness because he wanted to show people that a fully productive life was possible in spite of the challenges that people had to cope with from childhood.
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John Elferink maintained the belief that waiting for perpetrator to apologise was to give that perpetrator ongoing power.
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Mr John Elferink apologised for his reaction saying the comment was "unwise" and only expressed it in the figurative sense meaning a rebuke.
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John Elferink is married to Dee John Elferink and has two daughters Eleanor and Gwenevere.
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John Elferink enjoys riding his Royal Enfield motorbike in his leisure time.