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About Alfred Dennis
- Alfred Hugh Dennis (born 31 July 1924) is a former Australian politician.
- He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1959 to 1962, representing the electorate of Blacktown.
- He was elected in 1959 as a Liberal for the typically safe Labor seat, but resigned to sit as an independent in 1962. Dennis was born in Bondi, and was educated at Blacktown Public School.
- He served with the Second Australian Imperial Force in the South Pacific during World War II, and trained at Yanco Experimental Farm after repatriation.
- He operated a dairy farm near Richmond, while also working as a farming contractor.
- He was chairman of the Windsor District Milk Zone Dairymen's Council, and a member of the New South Wales executive of the Primary Producers' Union.
- He was an alderman of the Windsor Council from 1956 until his election to parliament in 1959. Dennis was nominated as the Liberal candidate for the Labor-held seat of Blacktown at the 1959 state election.
- Blacktown had been a safe Labor seat, but an electoral redistribution had made it marginal, and the sitting member, John Freeman had chosen to retire.
- Dennis went on to win the seat against Labor candidate Jim Southee despite Labor's statewide victory. A further redistribution before the 1962 election erased Dennis' majority and made Blacktown notionally a marginal Labor seat.
- Nonetheless, Dennis concluded this made Blacktown unwinnable and attempted to win Liberal preselection for the safe Liberal seat of The Hills, losing to Max Ruddock.
- Dennis subsequently resigned from the Liberal Party and contested The Hills as an independent, losing to Ruddock, while the defeated candidate from 1962, Southee, went on to win Blacktown on a large swing.
- He subsequently rejoined the Liberal Party, contesting a 1965 by-election for the rural seat of Oxley, but was defeated by Country Party candidate Bruce Cowan. Dennis moved to Hervey Bay in Queensland in 1970, where he operated a business manufacturing masonry products.
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