David Oliver Tonkin was an Australian politician who served as the 38th Premier of South Australia from 18 September 1979 to 10 November 1982. He was elected to the House of Assembly seat of Bragg at the 1970 election,serving until 1983. He became the leader of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in 1975,replacing Bruce Eastick. Initially leading the party to defeat at the 1977 election against the Don Dunstan Labor government,his party won the 1979 election against the Des Corcoran Labor government. Following the 1980 Norwood by-election the Tonkin government was reduced to a one-seat majority. His government's policy approach combined economic conservatism with social progressivism. The Tonkin Liberal government was defeated after one term at the 1982 election by Labor led by John Bannon.
Raymond Steele Hall is a former Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also served in the federal Parliament as a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977 and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996.
The Liberal Movement (LM) was a South Australian political party which existed from 1973 to 1976,and was a forerunner to the Australian Democrats.
David Bruce Cowan AM was an Australian politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 14 years from 6 November 1965 until his resignation on 29 August 1980 and then for 13 years in the Australian House of Representatives for Lyne for the Country Party of Australia and its successors,the National Country and then National Parties.
Sir Richard Layton Butler KCMG was the 31st Premier of South Australia,serving two disjunct terms in office:from 1927 to 1930,and again from 1933 to 1938.
Frome is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after Edward Charles Frome,the third surveyor-general of South Australia. The electorate stretches north-eastwards from the Gawler River and Gulf St Vincent in the south,and includes many of the agricultural areas of the Clare and Gilbert Valleys. It covers a total of 12,921 km2 (4,989 sq mi) and takes in the towns of Auburn,Clare,Mintaro,Port Broughton,Saddleworth,Snowtown and Riverton. Prior to the 2020 redistribution,its main population centre was Port Pirie,since transferred to Stuart.
Light is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Light is named after Colonel William Light,who was the first Surveyor-General of South Australia. The electorate was created in 1857,abolished at the 1902 election and recreated at the 1938 election. It is based on the semi-rural township of Gawler,and stretches southwards into the outermost northern suburbs of Adelaide.
Lionel Laughton Hill was an Australian politician who served as the thirtieth Premier of South Australia,representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party.
Antonio Piccolo is an Australian politician in the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party as member for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Light since the 2006 election. He is currently serving as the Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly.
Martin Bruce Cameron is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian Senate from May to October 1969. He was later a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1971 to 1990,sitting as a Liberal except during 1973–1976,when he represented the splinter Liberal Movement.
State elections were held in South Australia on 12 July 1975. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Premier of South Australia Don Dunstan won a third term in government,defeating the Liberal Party of Australia led by Leader of the Opposition Bruce Eastick.
State elections were held in South Australia on 10 March 1973. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Premier of South Australia Don Dunstan won a second term in government,defeating the Liberal and Country League led by Leader of the Opposition Bruce Eastick.
State elections were held in South Australia on 30 May 1970. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League led by Premier of South Australia Steele Hall was defeated by the Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Don Dunstan.
The 1968South AustralianState election was held in South Australia on 2 March 1968. All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election;38 of the 39 contests were won by candidates from Australia's two major political parties. The incumbent Labor Party South Australia led by Premier of South Australia Don Dunstan and the Liberal and Country League led by Leader of the Opposition Steele Hall) both won 19 seats. The sole independent candidate to win a race,Tom Stott of the Ridley electorate,joined with the LCL's 19 seats to form a coalition government that held a 20 to 19 majority,thus defeating the Dunstan Labor government.
Sir Thomas Charles Eastick,was a senior Australian Army artillery officer during World War II and a post-war leader of the principal ex-service organisation in South Australia. He commanded the 2/7th Field Regiment during the First and Second Battles of El Alamein in the Western Desert campaign in North Africa in 1942,leading to his appointment as a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Upon return from the Middle East,he commanded the artillery of the 7th Division during the final stage of the Salamaua–Lae campaign and during the Markham,Ramu and Finisterre campaigns in New Guinea between August 1943 and April 1944. He commanded the artillery of the 9th Division in the Borneo campaign in 1945. Eastick was the military governor of the Raj of Sarawak after taking the Japanese surrender at Kuching,and the commander of the Headquarters Group of Central Command in South Australia from 1950 to 1953.
A political family of Australia is a family in which multiple members are involved in Australian politics,particularly electoral politics. Members may be related by blood or marriage;often several generations or multiple siblings may be involved.
Percival Hillam Quirke was an Australian politician.
Eric Roger Goldsworthy AO is a former Australian politician and 3rd Deputy Premier of South Australia from 1979 to 1982. Goldsworthy represented the House of Assembly seat of Kavel for the Liberal and Country League and Liberal Party from 1970 to 1992. Before entering Parliament he was a farmer and teacher. He was also a member of University of Adelaide Council 1970–1973. He became deputy leader of the SA Liberals,and hence Deputy Leader of the Opposition,in 1975 when David Tonkin successfully challenged Bruce Eastick's leadership. As such,he became Deputy Premier when the Liberals won the 1979 state election,also serving as Minister of Mines and Energy,Services and Supply. He remained deputy leader when the Liberals went back into opposition in 1982 under John Olsen,and held the deputy's post until returning to the backbench in 1989.
The South Australian Liberal Party,officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division),and often shortened to SA Liberals,is the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. It was formed as the Liberal and Country League (LCL) in 1932 and became the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945. It retained its Liberal and Country League name before changing to its current name in 1974. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia,the other being the Australian Labor Party (SA Branch). The party has been led by Leader of the Opposition David Speirs since the 2022 state election after a one-term government.
The Western Australian Liberal Party,officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division),is the division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Western Australia. Founded in March 1949 as the Liberal and Country League of Western Australia (LCL),it simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1968.
