Steve Pratt

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Steve Pratt spent most of the last decade working for the foreign aid organisation CARE Australia. Steve has worked in dangerous front-line locations like Rwanda, Cambodia, Zaire, Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, as well as in Yemen, Jordon and Kenya, managing up to 32 international aid workers and 2000 local staff.

In 1993 and 1994 Steve Pratt worked as a senior manager in northern Iraq alongside the UN dealing with an enormous humanitarian problem. He and his colleagues were often under fire from Ba’athist Fedayeen as well as religious extremists.

In 1999 whilst evacuating Yugoslavia, he was unlawfully arrested by Yugoslav authorities and accused of spying for NATO. After spending 5 months as a propaganda prisoner of war he was released from prison on grounds of clemency (September ‘99).

Prior to his involvement in CARE, Steve had a 23-year career as a Military Officer in the Infantry of The Australian Army, seeing service throughout the Asia/Pacific region.

Steve is the author of ‘Duty of Care’, an account of CARE Australia’s emergency overseas work 1993 – 1999 and his ordeal under detention, in the former Yugoslavia, during the NATO conflict.

On 20 October 2001 Steve Pratt was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly as a Liberal MLA for the electorate of Brindabella. He was re-elected in the 2004 election. As of September 2007, He is the Shadow minister for Urban Services, Transport, and Emergency Services and Multicultural affairs. Steve also holds the position of Deputy Speaker in the Assembly.

Steve is married to Samira and has two children, Haydon and Yasmina.

He campaigns against graffiti and vandalism. In April 2007 he 'cleaned up' a legal mural, which he referred to as "obnoxious" in a publicity stunt.[1]