Stephen Hatton

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Stephen Hatton (b. 28 January 1948) is an Australian politician, who was Chief Minister of the Northern Territory of Australia from 1986 to 1988. From 1983 until his retirement in 2001, he was MLA for the seat of Nightcliff.

He played an important role in the referendum for statehood for the Northern Territory in 1998. He had served for many years on a bipartisan committee of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, which had recommended a constitution and an elected Constitutional Assembly to give it further consideration. The then Chief Minister, Shane Stone put forward a different constitution to a non-elected Constitutional Assembly. Steve Hatton was prominent in opposing this kind of statehood. The referendum failed, and he was reported as saying "One of the campaign slogans at the time was: 'we want statehood, not Stonehood'".

Preceded by Ian Tuxworth

Chief Minister of the Northern Territory 1986–1988

Succeeded by Marshall Perron

Chief Ministers of the Northern Territory
Everingham | Tuxworth | Hatton | Perron | Stone | Burke | Martin