The Government of South Australia,also referred to as the South Australian Government or the SA Government,is the executive branch of the state of South Australia. It is modelled on the Westminster system,meaning that the highest ranking members of the executive are drawn from an elected state parliament. Specifically the party or coalition which holds a majority of the House of Assembly.
Boyle Travers Finniss was the first premier of South Australia,serving from 24 October 1856 to 20 August 1857.
Since 1970,the South Australian House of Assembly —the lower house of the Parliament of South Australia —has consisted of 47 single-member electoral districts consisting of approximately the same number of enrolled voters. The district boundaries are regulated by the State Electoral Office,according to the requirements of the South Australian Constitution and are subject to mandatory redistributions by the South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission in order to respond to changing demographics.
Little Para was a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly in the north of the Adelaide metropolitan area,covering the suburbs of Elizabeth,Elizabeth Grove,Elizabeth North,Elizabeth East,Elizabeth Park,Elizabeth South,Elizabeth Vale,Gould Creek,Hillbank,Salisbury Heights and Salisbury Park,and parts of Craigmore,Golden Grove and Greenwith.
Finniss is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after B. T. Finniss,the first Premier of South Australia. It covers a 1,004 km2 (388 sq mi) regional area which includes the localities of Back Valley,Currency Creek,Encounter Bay,Finniss,Goolwa,Goolwa Beach,Goolwa North,Goolwa South,Hayborough,Hindmarsh Island,Hindmarsh Tiers,Hindmarsh Valley,Lower Inman Valley,McCracken,Middleton,Mosquito Hill,Mount Compass,Mount Observation,Mundoo Island,Nangkita,Port Elliot,Tooperang,and Victor Harbor;as well as parts of Inman Valley and Waitpinga.
Michael Redding Pengilly is an Australian politician who is the mayor of Kangaroo Island. He formerly represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Finniss from the 2006 election to 2018,representing the Liberal Party.
The South Australian National Party is a political party in South Australia,and an affiliated state party of the National Party of Australia. Like the National Party of Western Australia,it is an independent party,and not part of the Liberal/National Coalition. First contesting the 1965 state election,the party has held two South Australian House of Assembly seats at alternating periods:Peter Blacker (1973–1993) in Flinders;and Karlene Maywald (1997–2010) in Chaffey.
Middleton is a town in South Australia on the eastern end of the south coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula. It lies between the towns of Port Elliot and Goolwa.
Finniss Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Mount Lofty Ranges about 43 kilometres south of the state capital of Adelaide and about 7 kilometres west of Ashbourne. It is located within the gazetted locality of Mount Magnificent.
Stephen John Rayden Patterson is an Australian politician,and a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Australian Football League (AFL),and Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
Encounter Bay was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian colony of South Australia from 1857 to 1902.
The 2018 South Australian state election to elect members to the 54th Parliament of South Australia was held on 17 March 2018. All 47 seats in the House of Assembly or lower house,whose members were elected at the 2014 election,and 11 of 22 seats in the Legislative Council or upper house,last filled at the 2010 election,were contested. The record-16-year-incumbent Australian Labor Party (SA) government led by Premier Jay Weatherill was seeking a fifth four-year term,but was defeated by the opposition Liberal Party of Australia (SA),led by Opposition Leader Steven Marshall. Nick Xenophon's new SA Best party unsuccessfully sought to obtain the balance of power.
This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1843 to 1851. Beginning with the Royal Instructions gazetted 15 June 1843,there were four official and four non-official members of the legislative council consisting of:the governor,colonial secretary,advocate-general,and registrar-General with four non-official members being nominated by the Crown. The council was the only chamber of government until the House of Assembly was created in 1857.
Finniss is a settlement in South Australia. It is on the Victor Harbor railway line,a short distance north-east of where it crosses the Finniss River.
Mount Jagged is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 55 kilometres south of the state capital of Adelaide and about 16 kilometres north-west and 15 kilometres north respectively of the municipal seats of Goolwa and Victor Harbor.
This is a list of candidates of the 2018 South Australian state election. The election was held on 17 March 2018.
SA-Best,formerly known as Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST,is a political party in South Australia. It was founded in 2017 by Nick Xenophon as a state-based partner to his Nick Xenophon Team party. After an unsuccessful 2022 South Australian state election,the party has one representative in the South Australian Legislative Council,Connie Bonaros,whose term expires in 2026.
The Marshall ministry was the 73rd ministry (cabinet) of the Government of South Australia,led by Steven Marshall of the South Australian Liberal Party. It was formed after the 2018 state election and ended after the 2022 state election. It was preceded by the Weatherill ministry and was succeeded by the Malinauskas ministry.
Taine Owen Basham is a Welsh professional rugby union player who plays as a flanker for United Rugby Championship club Dragons and the Wales national team.
Chiton is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the south coast of Fleurieu Peninsula about 67 kilometres (42 mi) south of the state capital of Adelaide and about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) west of the municipal seat of Goolwa.
