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Nicholas Xenophon is an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 2008 to 2017. He was the leader of two political parties: Nick Xenophon Team federally, and Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST in South Australia. In October 2017, Xenophon resigned from the Australian Senate to contest a seat in the House of Assembly at the 2018 South Australian state election. From 1997 to 2007, he was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council, serving as an independent on a No Pokies policy platform. When the Nick Xenophon Team changed its name to Centre Alliance, Xenophon himself ceased to be directly involved with the party.Xenophon initially focused on his central anti-gambling policy, but also embraced other issues in federal parliament such as civil liberties, defence, education, foreign policy, health, infrastructure, manufacturing, national security, and regional affairs.

Xenophon failed in his central mission to have poker machines curbed or eliminated in a lasting way, but was instrumental in the Rudd Government's repeal of WorkChoices legislation and the passage of the economic stimulus package, as well as the Abbott Government's repeal of the Clean Energy Act 2011. Additionally, Xenophon was pivotal in the obstruction of the Abbott Government's 2014 austerity budget, the plan to build next generation submarines overseas, and the Pyne higher education reforms. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. January 1959
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Famous Nick Xenophon Quotes

“I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.”

Nick Xenophon

Legal eagles discuss justice system, 13 May 2005, Stateline (ABC), 2009-11-17 http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/sa/content/2005/s1369386.htm,

“In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.”

Nick Xenophon

From 2009 November 17 speech on Scientology in Australia Senate, cited in [Natasha, Bita, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/science-or-fiction/story-e6frg6z6-1225799903311, Science or fiction?, The Australian, November 20, 2009, 2009-11-20]

“I don't know if I am a very good politician … I'm not a good hater.”

Nick Xenophon

[Jamie, Walker, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/from-young-lib-to-senate-linchpin/story-e6frg6p6-1111116755879, From brash Young Liberal to Senate linchpin for Nick Xenophon, The Australian, June 28, 2008, 2009-11-18]

“Do you want Australian tax exemptions to be supporting an organisation that coerces its followers into having abortions? Do you want to be supporting an organisation that defrauds, that blackmails, that falsely imprisons? Because on the balance of evidence provided by victims of Scientology you probably are.”

Nick Xenophon

From 2009 November 17 speech on Scientology in Australia Senate, cited in ABC News, 18 November 2009, Scientology a 'criminal organisation', 2009-11-18 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/18/2745765.htm,

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