Russell Savage
| Russell Savage | |
|---|---|
| Constituency | Mildura |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
27 January 1948 Melbourne |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Independent |
| Profession | Police officer |
Russell Irwin Savage (born 27 January 1948) is an Australian politician, who was the independent member for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Mildura from 1996 until 2006. Prior to entering politics, he was a long-serving police officer in Victoria and England.
Savage was born in 1948 in Melbourne, and educated at the Red Hill Consolidated School on the Mornington Peninsula. From 1967 to 1969, he was a police officer with the Metropolitan Police in London. He returned to Australia and joined Victoria Police in 1970, attaining the rank of senior sergeant and acting as station commander at Mildura police station. In 1989 he received the National Medal for twenty years of service in the Victorian police force.
After leaving the police force in 1990, Savage entered local politics as a councillor for the Shire of Mildura council, until 1995 when the Shire was merged with the City of Mildura and Shire of Walpeup into the Rural City of Mildura.
Savage ran as an independent candidate for the seat of Mildura in the 1996 Victorian state election. Savage based his campaign on the neglect of rural Victoria by incumbent Premier Jeff Kennett's government, in particular its closure of the Vinelander rail service between Melbourne and Mildura. His campaign was successful, and Savage was elected after a large swing from the incumbent Liberal member Craig Bildstien.
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