David Alexander Cox,Australian politician,was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives October 1998 to October 2004,representing the Division of Kingston,South Australia. He was born in Dunedin,New Zealand,and was educated at Flinders University and the University of Adelaide,where he graduated with a master's degree in business administration. He was a public servant before entering politics.
The Division of Kingston is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia covering the outer southern suburbs of Adelaide. The 171 km²seat stretches from Hallett Cove and O'Halloran Hill in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south,including the suburbs of Aberfoyle Park,Aldinga Beach,Christie Downs,Christies Beach,Flagstaff Hill,Hackham,Hallett Cove,Huntfield Heights,Lonsdale,Maslin Beach,Moana,Morphett Vale,Old Noarlunga,Onkaparinga Hills,Port Noarlunga,Reynella,Seaford,Sellicks Beach,Sheidow Park,Port Willunga,Trott Park,Woodcroft,and parts of Happy Valley and McLaren Flat.
Victoria Square,also known as Tarntanyangga,is the central square of five public squares in the Adelaide city centre,South Australia.
Ivan Peter Lewis was an Australian politician. Lewis was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1979 and 2006 in the electorates of Hammond,Ridley,Murray-Mallee and Mallee. From 1979 he was in the House as a Liberal member,however he was expelled from the Liberals in 2000. He was re-elected as an independent,serving until 2006. His decision to serve as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly for a Labor government resulted in Mike Rann becoming Premier of South Australia from the 2002 election. His death was reported on 28 September 2017 to have been earlier in the week,in Sydney.
The Division of Port Adelaide was an Australian electoral division in the state of South Australia. The 181 km²seat extended from St Kilda in the north to Grange Road and Findon in the south with part of Salisbury to the east. Suburbs included Alberton,Beverley,Birkenhead,Cheltenham,Findon,Kilkenny,Largs Bay,Mansfield Park,North Haven,Ottoway,Parafield Gardens,Paralowie,Pennington,Port Adelaide,Queenstown,Rosewater,Salisbury Downs,Semaphore,Woodville,West Croydon,and part of Seaton. The seat also included Torrens Island and Garden Island. Port Adelaide was abolished in 2019,after a redistribution triggered by a change in representation entitlement which saw South Australia's seats in the House of Representatives reduced to ten.
Flagstaff Hill is a suburb in the City of Onkaparinga local government area. It is named after the hill by that name in the area,where Colonel William Light erected a flagstaff during his survey,which was then used as a trig point. Flagstaff Hill is a leafy suburb established around the Sturt Gorge Recreation Park,maintaining many parks and reserves throughout the suburb.
Fisher was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It was created in 1970 and named after Sir James Fisher,a colonial politician and the first mayor of Adelaide. It was abolished in a 2016 redistribution and its last MP,Nat Cook was elected to represent its replacement,Hurtle Vale,at the 2018 state election. It covers a 94.2 km2 suburban and semi rural area on the southern fringes of Adelaide,taking in the suburbs of Aberfoyle Park,Chandlers Hill,Cherry Gardens,Coromandel East,Happy Valley,Reynella East and parts of Clarendon,O'Halloran Hill and Woodcroft.
Kaurna is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the Kaurna aboriginal tribe which originally inhabited the Adelaide plains,it is a 44.7 km²semi-urban electorate on Adelaide's far-southern beaches,taking in the suburbs of Hackham,Huntfield Heights,Maslin Beach,Moana,Noarlunga Downs,Old Noarlunga,Port Noarlunga South,Seaford,Seaford Heights,Seaford Meadows and Seaford Rise,as well as part of Onkaparinga Hills. It is one of two state districts named after South Australia's indigenous people.
Robert Bruce Such was a South Australian politician. He was the member for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1989 until his death in 2014. He defeated Labor MP Philip Tyler at the 1989 election and was a member of the Liberals until 2000 when he became an independent. Such was Minister for Employment,Training and Further Education,and Minister for Youth Affairs,in the Brown Liberal government from 1993 to 1996. He served as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly for the Rann Labor government from 2005 to 2006. Such was joint Father of the House with Michael Atkinson from 2012.
John James "Jack" Snelling is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Playford from the 1997 election until his retirement in 2018. Snelling left the Labor Party in 2021 to found the Family First Party.
Amanda Louise Rishworth is an Australian politician who has served as the Australian Labor Party member for the House of Representatives seat of Kingston in South Australia since the 2007 election. Rishworth was appointed Minister for Social Services in the Albanese ministry.
Sellicks Beach,formerly spelt Sellick's Beach,is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located within Adelaide metropolitan area about 47 kilometres (29 mi) from the Adelaide city centre. It is an outer southern suburb of Adelaide and is located in the local government area of the City of Onkaparinga at the southern boundary of the metropolitan area. It is known as Witawali or Witawodli by the traditional owners,the Kaurna people,and is of significance as being the site of a freshwater spring said to be created by the tears of Tjilbruke,the creator being.
Nicholas David Champion is an Australian politician. He is a member of the South Australian Labor Party and has served in the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2022 South Australian state election,representing the seat of Taylor. He has served as the Minister for Trade and Investment,Minister for Housing and Urban Development and Minister for Planning in the Malinauskas ministry since March 2022.
Peter Bryden Malinauskas is an Australian politician serving as the 47th and current premier of South Australia since March 2022. He has been the leader of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and a member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for the division of Croydon since April 2018. He was previously the Leader of the Opposition from 2018 until he led his party into government in the 2022 state election.
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.
Troy Stephen Bell is an Australian politician representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Mount Gambier. Representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2014 state election,he became an independent in 2017,after being accused of misappropriating more than $2 million of public money.
Frank Clement Staniford was an Australian politician. He represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Murray from 1924 to 1927 and 1930 to 1933 for the Labor Party. He was Chairman of Committees under Lionel Hill in his second term,and was Minister for Education,Minister for Immigration,Minister for Labour and Employment and Minister for Local Government in the short-lived Richards Ministry of 1933,following the 1932 Labor split.
The South Australian Labor Party,officially known as the Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as South Australian Labor,is the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party,originally formed in 1891 as the United Labor Party of South Australia. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia,the other being the Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division).
Nicolle Jane Flint is an Australian politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 2016 to 2022,representing the Division of Boothby in South Australia. She is a member of the Liberal Party and succeeded the previous member,Andrew Southcott,at the 2016 federal election.
The 2022 South Australian state election was held on 19 March 2022 to elect members to the 55th Parliament of South Australia. All 47 seats in the House of Assembly,and half the seats in the Legislative Council were up for re-election.
