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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Stephen Hatton
- Stephen Paul Hatton (born 28 January 1948) is an Australian politician, who was Chief Minister of the Northern Territory of Australia from 1986 to 1988.
- From 1983 until his retirement in 2001, he was MLA for the seat of Nightcliff.
- He first became a minister in December 1984 in the Ian Tuxworth government.He played an important role in the referendum for statehood for the Northern Territory in 1998.
- He had served for many years on a bipartisan committee of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, which had recommended a constitution and an elected Constitutional Assembly to give it further consideration.
- The then Chief Minister, Shane Stone put forward a different constitution to a non-elected Constitutional Assembly.
- Steve Hatton was prominent in opposing this kind of statehood.
- The referendum failed, and he was reported as saying "One of the campaign slogans at the time was: 'we want statehood, not Stonehood'".
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