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Thomas Playford was an Australian politician who served two terms as Premier of South Australia. He subsequently entered federal politics,serving as a Senator for South Australia from 1901 to 1906 and as Minister for Defence from 1905 to 1907.
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Elizabeth is an outer northern suburb of the Adelaide metropolitan area,South Australia,24 km north of the Adelaide city centre. It is located in the City of Playford. At the 2016 census,Elizabeth had a population of 1,024.
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Tom Cleave Stott CBE spent 37 years as an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly,from 1933 to 1970. He served as Speaker of the House from 1962 to 1965 for the Tom Playford LCL government and 1968 to 1970 for the Steele Hall LCL government,both times in exchange for his confidence and supply vote to form minority governments.
The following lists events that happened during 1915 in Australia.
Sir Thomas Playford was an Australian politician from the state of South Australia. He served continuously as Premier of South Australia and leader of the Liberal and Country League (LCL) from 5 November 1938 to 10 March 1965. Though controversial,it was the longest term of any elected government leader in Australian history. His tenure as premier was marked by a period of population and economic growth unmatched by any other Australian state. He was known for his parochial style in pushing South Australia's interests,and was known for his ability to secure a disproportionate share of federal funding for the state as well as his shameless haranguing of federal leaders. His string of election wins was enabled by a system of malapportionment and gerrymander later dubbed the 'Playmander'.
Albert Percy Blesing was a farmer and politician from South Australia who served as Minister for Agriculture (1933–1944),for Local Government (1933–1938) and for Afforestation (1938–1944). He was a founding member of the Country Party in South Australia and served in the governments of Richard Layton Butler and Thomas Playford IV.
Peter Playford is an Australian rugby union football coach and a former professional player for the Waratahs and Brumbies on the wing. Playford was head coach of the Sydney Stars team for the 2015 season of the National Rugby Championship. One of his nicknames is P².
State elections were held in South Australia on 3 March 1962. All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League led by Premier of South Australia Thomas Playford IV defeated the Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Frank Walsh.
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Virginia is a town on the rural outskirts of Adelaide,the capital city of South Australia. Port Wakefield Road,the main highway taking traffic to the north of Adelaide,passes through the area and used to pass straight through Virginia. Market gardening is the main activity there.
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Mary Jean Alexandra Fulbrook,is a British academic and historian. Since 1995,she has been Professor of German History at University College London. She is a noted researcher in a wide range of fields,including religion and society in early modern Europe,the German dictatorships of the twentieth century,Europe after the Holocaust,and historiography and social theory.
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Michael Edison Brown is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2018 state election. He represented Playford from 2018 to 2022 after which he transferred to Florey at the 2022 state election.
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- ↑ "Playford – SA Electorate, Candidates, Results". abc.net.au. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
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