Russell Savage

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Russell Savage
ConstituencyMildura
Personal details
Born (1948-01-27) 27 January 1948 (age 76)
Independent
ProfessionPolice officer

Russell Irwin Savage (born 27 January 1948) is an Australian politician, who was the

Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Mildura
from 1996 until 2006. Prior to entering politics, he was a long-serving police officer in Victoria and England.

Early life and police career

Savage was born in 1948 in Melbourne, and educated at the Red Hill Consolidated School on the Mornington Peninsula. From 1967 to 1969, he was a police officer with the Metropolitan Police in London. He returned to Australia and joined Victoria Police in 1970, attaining the rank of senior sergeant and acting as station commander at Mildura police station.[1] In 1989 he received the National Medal for twenty years of service in the Victorian police force.[2]

Political career

After leaving the police force in 1990, Savage entered local politics as a councillor for the Shire of Mildura council, until 1995 when the Shire was merged with the City of Mildura and Shire of Walpeup into the Rural City of Mildura.[3]

Savage ran as an

Liberal member Craig Bildstien
, even as the Liberal state government was easily reelected. It was only the third time since the seat's creation in 1927 that it had been out of the hands of a conservative party.

At the next

Labor Party led by Steve Bracks.[5]

Savage lost his seat to the

National Party's Peter Crisp in the 2006 Victorian State election, a loss he attributed to the Nationals' high-budget campaign, Labor's failure to reopen the Mildura rail link, and a proposal to build a toxic waste dump in his electorate.[6]

After leaving his seat, Savage kept a low profile, saying "There's nothing more dull than ex-members of parliament. Once you're out, you're out."

Noosa hinterland.[6]

References

  1. Parliament of Victoria (Australia)
    .
  2. ^ SAVAGE, Russell Irwin, It's an Honour, 15 August 1989.
  3. ISBN 0-642-23117-6
    . Retrieved 5 January 2008.
  4. ISBN 1-86287-601-0
    .
  5. ^ Independents join to end Victoria's Kennett era, The 7.30 Report (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 18 October 1999.
  6. ^ a b Green, Jonathan: It's an awful job — I'm glad I don't have to do it, The Age, 27 November 2006.
  7. ^ Fyfe, Melissa; John Mangan: Where are they now?, The Age, 13 September 2009.
Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Member for Mildura
1996–2006 		Succeeded by
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