Career
Rossi"s election was unexpected as the seat is normally safe Labor, with Lee becoming the Liberal government"s most marginal seat on a 1.1 percent margin. He held controversial views such as sterilising unmarried mothers after the third child, and introducing a modern version of poor houses for welfare recipients. At one stage Rossi was ejected from parliament for consuming a meat pie in the chamber.
Rossi ran as an independent in Lee at the 2010 election, receiving a vote of 2.2 percent (455 votes).
