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Stephen Mutch, L.L.B., M.A., Grad. Dip. Arts (University of New South Wales) is a
solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia. He is a former member of the
New South Wales Legislative Council (State Senate) and of the Australian House of
Representatives, having served in parliament from 12988 to 1998. Before that he was in
practice as a solicitor and then parliamentary policy adviser. He has just completed writing
his doctoral candidature dissertation entitled, ―Cults, Religion and Public Policy,‖ which deals
with the fiscal privileging of ―religious‖ entities. The idea for the thesis arose from Mr.
Mutch‘s pursuit in parliament of representations concerning groups commonly characterized
as cults, sects, and/or new religious movements and his concern about the inadequate
knowledge of and political response to such concerns. His first refereed publication is ―Public
Policy Revolt: Saving the 2001 Australian Census‖ in Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 30, No.
2, Nov. 2002. Mr. Mutch lives in Sydney with his wife and two children.
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