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Steve
Doszpot - Candidate for Brindabella
Why
I decided to stand for the ACT Legislative Assembly
Thank you for taking the time to visit my website and
for the opportunity to introduce myself as a candidate in the coming
election, standing in the seat of Brindabella on behalf of the Liberal
Party. I would like to take a few moments to tell you about myself
and explain my motivations for putting my name forward at this election.
Democracy is very precious to me. At the age of eight my family escaped
from then Communist-dominated Hungary, trudging over snow in the
dead of night in search of a better life. We found it in Australia,
first in Sydney and since 1974 in Canberra, where I worked in the
early phases of the information technology revolution. I filled
senior management roles, first with Sanyo Office Machines, then
Wang Computers and Digital Equipment Corporation until 1989 when
I founded my own company, CSM - Canberra Strategic Marketing.
While remaining a shareholder of CSM, I no longer play an active role,
having established another marketing consultancy, CSM (International),
whose clients have included the Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade, the Australia Today Indonesia ’94 project and the Sydney
Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.
The
latter project lasted two-and-a-half-years and involved organising
the Olympic football tournament in Canberra, a major undertaking
where I was eventually responsible for more than 30 full and part-time
employees and 650 volunteers. With the Olympics over, CSM (International)
formed a joint venture with Duesburys Chartered Accountants, one
of Canberra’s largest privately-owned accountancy firms, and earlier
this year won an important tender to evaluate Australia’s trade
relationship with Korea and make recommendations to the Federal
Government on how it may be enhanced.
Throughout this period I have sought to maintain my desire to serve
the community through membership of organisations such as the CanTrade
advisory board to the ACT Government, the board of the Canberra
Institute of Technology, and Project 2000, which sought to maximise
the opportunities of Canberra’s Olympic involvement. I am also the
President of Soccer Canberra.
In
addition, I have been appointed an Honorary Ambassador charged with
‘talking up’ Canberra wherever I travel. I was a torch bearer in
the Canberra leg of the Olympic Torch Relay and for more than 20
years had an active involvement with the electronic media reporting
mainly on soccer but also rugby league, basketball and ice hockey
with Radio 2CC; ABC Radio 2CN; and SSSFM.
It is quite obvious to me, that my many and varied activities would
never have been possible anywhere other than in the free and open
society that in Australia we take for granted.
Having
benefited so much from this system, I have decided to seek the permission
of the electorate to put my skills and experience to their service
as a member of the ACT Legislative Assembly.
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