Steven John Doszpot was an Australian politician and member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 2008 to 2017.
10 Facts About Steve Doszpot
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In December 2012, Doszpot was elected as the Assistant Speaker.
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Steve Doszpot was born as Istvan Doszpot in Budapest, Hungary and in 1957, aged nine, migrated to Australia with his refugee parents after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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Steve Doszpot completed his secondary education at the Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham.
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Steve Doszpot moved to Canberra in 1974 and was involved in the computer industry as a senior executive with Wang Computers, Digital Equipment Corporation and Canon Australia, with a brief stint at the CSIRO ICT Centre as the Business Development Manager in Canberra, before his election to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2008.
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Steve Doszpot was the Head of SOCOG in Canberra from 1998 to 2000, and managed the Olympic Football Tournament staged in Canberra as part of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
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Steve Doszpot was President of the ACT Olympic Council and Soccer Canberra and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Steve Doszpot was the Shadow Minister for Education and Training and the Shadow Minister for Sport and Recreation from 2008; the Shadow Minister for Ageing and the Shadow Minister for ICT from 2012.
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Steve Doszpot had previously held shadow portfolios for Multicultural Affairs and for Disability between 2008 and 2012.
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On 24 October 2017, Steve Doszpot announced that he would be resigning from the Legislative Assembly on 5 December, after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.