Stewart Leggett

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A minority group in our society declares that we should be able to read and see whatever we like. I suggest that not one of us is free to do as we like. As a family community—a fact from which there is no escape—we are responsible to one another. The old saying ‘to treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves’ should be our goal in life and the basis of our legislation in Parliament. For this reason I would offer my congratulations and support to the Attorney-General for his stand in banning the film Salo.

— Stewart Leggett (15 February 1994) [20]

Leggett was not reelected in the 1997 election, [3] losing the seat of Hanson to Steph Key.

After leaving parliament Leggett then served as a senior political advisor to the Premier and Deputy Premier of South Australia, while the Liberal party was in power until 2002. [8]

On 21 January 2004 Crikey referenced Leggett as an unlikely powerbroker and preference negotiator behind the success of the then recently formed Family First Party. [21] In the 29 September 2004 episode of the ABC's The Religion Report program, Family First Party cofounder Andrew Evans credited Leggett with being an early adviser to the party. [22]

Life after politics

Leggett worked with SAPOL for many years delivering drivers’ safety programs in schools. [23]

From 1999 Leggett was the headmaster of the Aldinga campus of Southern Vales Christian College until his retirement from teaching in 2005. [5] [6]

In 1999 Leggett took up the position of Assistant Pastor of the Teen Challenge Church. In 2014 Stewart Leggett was a pastor at the Victor Harbor Church of Christ. Leggett currently sermons at Trinity South Coast, the Victor Harbor branch of Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide. [16] [24] [25] [8]

As well as leading a number of churches in Adelaide, Leggett was employed as a pastor at Temple Christian College and also as chaplain of the Norwood Football Club. [6] [26] In 2006 Leggett performed the funeral ceremony of the director of Teen Challenge in South Australia, Pastor Morrie Thompson. [27]

In 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012 Leggett was appointed as a member of South Australia's Legal Practitioners Conduct Board, positions he was nominated for by the Attorney General and Premier of South Australia. [28] [29] [30] [31] In 2013 Leggett was also appointed as a Justice of the Peace, the position nominated by Premier Jay Weatherill. [32]

Leggett ran for mayor of Victor Harbor in the 2010 council elections and was the second most popular candidate by first preference votes, but lost to Graham Philip by 108 votes. [33]

Leggett remained active in many community sporting organisations following his retirement. [6] As of 2012, Leggett was on the board of the Rotary Club of Encounter Bay, working with children as the club's Director of New Generations. [34] As of 2015, he presented a radio show on 90.1 HappyFM in Victor Harbor, which included conducting interviews with local figures in the Victor Harbor community. [35]

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Stewart Ronald Leggett
Member of the South Australian Parliament
for Hanson
In office
11 December 1993 –11 October 1997
Parliament of South Australia
Preceded by Member for Hanson
1993–1997		Succeeded by
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