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Norman Karl Sanders (b.
15 October 1932) is an
Australian former politician, representing the
Australian Democrats in the
Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1980 to 1982 and the
Australian Senate from 1985 to 1990.
Born in
Cleveland,
Ohio, Sanders served in the
United States Air Force from 1950 to 1952. He completed a
Bachelor of Science at the
University of Alaska, a
Master of Arts at the
University of California, Los Angeles, and a
PhD at the
University of Tasmania. Sanders worked as an aerospace engineer, pilot and academic in the
United States before moving to
Tasmania in the 1960s. There he became involved in the nascent environmental movement, becoming Director of
The Wilderness Society and writing two books on environmental issues.
A decision by the Tasmanian government to dam the
Franklin River led Sanders to become the leader of the opposition movement to the proposed dam and, representing the Australian Democrats, was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the
Member for Denison at a
1980 by-election, becoming Australia's first member of parliament to be elected on an environmental platform. In parliament, Sanders was a key player in the campaign to save the Franklin River and successfully moved a
motion of no confidence in the
Holgate Labor government in March 1982, forcing an early election.
On 23 December 1982, Sanders resigned from the Tasmanian Parliament, claiming that the government was becoming totalitarian in nature over the Franklin Dam issue, and in particular, the way Franklin Dam protestors were being treated. He turned his attention to federal politics and was elected as a Democrats Senator at the
1984 election on a "No Dams" platform. He was a member of an Australian parliamentary delegation to the
Soviet Union and
Poland in 1986. He was re-elected at the
1987 election but, feeling jaded by the amount of travel involved between Tasmania and
Canberra, he resigned from the Senate on 1 March 1990 in order to contest a Senate position in the
Australian Capital Territory at the
1990 federal election. He was unsuccessful.
Following his defeat, Sanders lectured in
Human Ecology at the
Australian National University. He unsuccessfully contested the
House of Representatives seat of
Eden-Monaro (
NSW) for the Democrats at the
1993 federal election.
Sanders currently owns a sea kayak building company on the south coast of New South Wales.
Sanders is only one of three Americans (along with
King O'Malley and
Bob Charles) to be elected to the Australian parliament.
He has been married and divorced twice.
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