Julia Eileen Gillard is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. She held office as leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),having previously served as the 13th deputy prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010,under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. She is the first and only woman to hold either office in Australian history.
Penelope Ying-Yen Wong is an Australian politician who is serving as the current minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Government in the Senate in the Albanese government since 2022. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),she has been a senator for South Australia since 2002. Wong previously served as minister for Climate Change and minister for Finance and Deregulation during the governments of Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 until 2013.
The City of Playford is a local government area of South Australia in Adelaide's northern suburbs. It was named in recognition of Sir Thomas Playford,who played a part in the development of the area,and was South Australia's premier from 1938–1965. The city covers an area of 345 km2 (133 sq mi),and is home to over 90,000 residents. Playford was the fastest growing local government area in South Australia in the 2010s.
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.
Jane Diane Lomax-Smith,AM is an Australian politician and histopathologist who has been the Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide since 14 November 2022. She was previously in local government for nine years,as a councillor for three terms and Lord Mayor of Adelaide for two terms. She was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Adelaide representing the Labor Party from 2002 to 2010,and throughout this time was a Minister of Education and Tourism and a range of other portfolios. In 2010–2011,she was the Interim Director of the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus). Since 2011,she has been the chair of the Board of the South Australian Museum.
Vickie Ann Chapman is a former Australian politician,representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bragg for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia between the 2002 election and May 2022. Chapman served as the Deputy Premier of South Australia and Attorney-General between 19 March 2018 and 22 November 2021 in the Marshall government. She was the first woman to hold either post.
Stephanie Wendy Key is a former Australian politician who was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly for the Australian Labor Party from the 1997 election until her retirement in 2018,representing the electorates of Hanson (1997–2002) and Ashford (2002–2018).
ChloëCatienne Fox is an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bright from 2006 to 2014 for the Labor Party.
Isobel Mary Redmond is a former Australian politician who was the member for the electoral district of Heysen in the House of Assembly from 2002 to 2018. She was the parliamentary leader of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Australia between 2009 and 2013,and was the first female leader of a South Australian state major party. Under Redmond,the Liberals won 18 of 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly at the 2010 election,a gain of three from the 2006 election. She resigned as leader of the Liberal Party on 31 January 2013.
Gail Elizabeth Gago is a retired Australian politician,and a member of the Labor Party in the South Australian Legislative Council from the 2002 election until her retirement in 2018.
Mark Christopher Butler is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since 2007. He was a minister in the Gillard and Rudd governments and also served as national president of the ALP from 2015 to 2018.
The 2010 South Australian state election elected members to the 52nd Parliament of South Australia on 20 March 2010. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house,whose current members were elected at the 2006 election,and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house,last filled at the 2002 election,became vacant.
Steven Spence Marshall is an Australian politician who served as the 46th premier of South Australia between 2018 and 2022. He has been a member of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the South Australian House of Assembly since 2010,representing the electorate of Dunstan.
Lee Kenny Odenwalder is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2010 election,representing Little Para until 2018 and Elizabeth thereafter. Odenwalder has been linked with the Shop,Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA).
Penelope Lesley Wright is an Australian activist and former politician who is South Australia's Guardian for Children and Young People in Care.
The Rann government was the state executive government of South Australia led by Premier of South Australia Mike Rann of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2002 to 2011.
Lucy Penelope Hood is an Australian politician,journalist and former political adviser. She has been a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2022 state election,representing Adelaide. With a swing of 7.1 per cent,she defeated the incumbent Liberal Party member,Rachel Sanderson,who had held the seat since 2010. Prior to the election,the ABC election analyst Antony Green stated that results in Adelaide have tracked closely with the seat being won by the party that won the state-wide two-party-preferred vote (2PP) at every election since 1985.
Barbara Ann Pocock AM is an Australian politician who was elected at the 2022 Australian federal election to become a Senator representing South Australia from July 2022. She was officially declared elected by the Australian Electoral Commission on 15 June 2022. Previously,she ran as the Greens candidate for the Division of Adelaide in the 2019 Australian federal election. She is a professor and economist.
Louise Jane Miller-Frost is an Australian politician elected to represent the division of Boothby in the 2022 Australian federal election. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party.
Kerrynne Liddle is an Australian politician and the first Indigenous federal member of parliament from South Australia. She is an Arrernte woman and member of the Liberal Party. She was elected to the Senate on the party's ticket in South Australia at the 2022 federal election,to a term beginning on 1 July 2022. She was a journalist and corporate manager before entering politics.
