Dennis Jensen
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Dr Dennis Jensen |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Tangney |
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In office 9 October 2004 – 2 July 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Daryl Williams |
| Succeeded by | Ben Morton |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Dennis Jensen 28 February 1962 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Sue Jensen (divorced) |
| Domestic partner | Trudy Hoad |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
RMIT University Melbourne University Monash University |
| Occupation | Research scientist |
| Website | www |
Dr Dennis Jensen (born 28 February 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a former Australian politician. He was elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 9 October 2004 federal election for the Division of Tangney, Western Australia, for the Liberal Party. He is known for his views questioning anthropogenic causation of global warming
Jensen lost Liberal preselection in Tangney for the 2016 federal election and unsuccessfully ran as an independent in the 2016 election.
He was educated at RMIT University, Melbourne University and Monash University, from where he has a PhD in materials science. He worked at the CSIRO as a scientist and was also an air traffic controller and a defence analyst before entering politics.
He was the Liberal candidate for the Division of Corio, Victoria at the 1998 election.
In 2006, Dr Jensen lost his preselection for Tangney for the 2007 federal election, but won it back with the support of the state executive and prime minister John Howard. He lost preselection again for the 2010 election, but once again the state executive intervened and restored him as Liberal candidate.
Dr Jensen is a sceptic concerning human-induced global warming and, on behalf of the Lavoisier Group, organised the release of a book entitled Nine Facts About Climate Change by former mining CEO Ray Evans. In February 2007 during a Parliamentary sitting, Jensen quoted the then IPCC vice chairman Yuri Izrael, who had stated that "there is no proven link between human activity and global warming".
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