David Oliver Tonkin AO 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.
The state election for the 51st Parliament of South Australia was held in the Australian state of South Australia on 18 March 2006 to elect all members of the South Australian House of Assembly and 11 members of the South Australian Legislative Council. The election was conducted by the independent State Electoral Office.
Flinders is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after explorer Matthew Flinders,who was responsible for charting most of the state's coastline. It is a 58,901 km²coastal rural electorate encompassing the Eyre Peninsula and the coast along the Nullarbor Plain,based in and around the city of Port Lincoln and contains the District Councils of Ceduna,Cleve,Elliston,Lower Eyre Peninsula,Streaky Bay and Wudinna;as well as the localities of Fowlers Bay,Nullarbor and Yalata in the Pastoral Unincorporated Area. The seat was expanded in 2002 to include a western strip of land all the way to the Western Australia border.
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 the 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.
Chaffey,created in 1936,is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the Riverland region of South Australia including the towns of Renmark,Berri,Barmera,Loxton and Waikerie. The seat is named after brothers George and William Chaffey who established the irrigation area along the Murray River from 1886.
Stuart is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. At 323,131 km²,it is a vast country district extending from the Spencer Gulf as far as the Northern Territory border in the north and the Queensland and New South Wales borders in the east. The district includes pastoral lease and unincorporated Crown Lands,Lake Eyre and part of the Simpson Desert in the far north. Its main population centres since the 2020 boundaries redistribution are the industrial towns of Port Pirie and Port Augusta.
Lionel Laughton Hill was the thirtieth Premier of South Australia,representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party.
State elections were held in South Australia on 17 September 1977. 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 fourth term in government,defeating the Liberal Party of Australia led by Leader of the Opposition David Tonkin.
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 Australian Labor Party and the Liberal and Country League 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.
State elections were held in South Australia on 19 March 1938. All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League government led by Premier of South Australia Richard L. Butler defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Andrew Lacey.
Percival Hillam Quirke was an Australian politician.
Colleen Fay Hutchison is an Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1989 to 1993,representing the electorate of Stuart.
Eyre was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1938 to 1997.
The Liberal Party of Australia,commonly known as the South Australian 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. The party has been led by Leader of the Opposition David Speirs since the 2022 state election after a one-term government.
The Liberal Party of Australia,branded as Liberal Western Australia,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.
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