Lynn Arnold

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Dr Lynn Arnold
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40th Premier of South Australia
In office
4 September 1992 14 December 1993

Entering in Parliament as member for Salisbury on 15 September 1979, [1] Arnold became a Minister after the election of the John Bannon Labor Government in 1982. He served as Minister of Education, Tertiary Education, Agriculture and State Development. He held the seat of Salisbury until it was abolished on 6 December 1985, and then represented Ramsay from 7 December 1985 to 11 December 1993. [1] [2]

Arnold was elected Labor leader and Premier of South Australia in September 1992, following the resignation of John Bannon after the $3.1 billion collapse of the State Bank of South Australia. However, the change of leader did not appease the simmering voter anger against Labor ahead of a statutory general election due for 1993. A warning sign came at the March 1993 federal election, which saw two of Labor's longest-standing federal strongholds fall to the Liberals. Hindmarsh was won by a non-Labor member for the first time since 1919 and only the second time ever, while Grey was won by the conservatives for only the second time in 50 years.[ citation needed ]

Arnold waited as long as he could, finally calling an election for 11 December. That resulted in the 11-year Labor government being swept out of office in a massive swing to the Liberal Party led by Dean Brown. Labor suffered an 8.9%, 14-seat swing, and its share of the two-party-preferred vote was reduced to 39.1%.[ citation needed ] That was mainly because Labor was decimated in its long-time stronghold in Adelaide, losing all but nine seats in the capital. Arnold was elected in the newly created seat of Taylor.[ citation needed ]

Most commentators did not blame Arnold for the landslide defeat and believed Labor would have been heavily defeated regardless of who was leading the party. Almost a year after the election, Arnold resigned as Labor leader, and left politics. He was succeeded as Labor leader by his deputy, Mike Rann, who had earlier succeeded him in Ramsay. Arnold's resignation led to a by-election for Taylor on 5 November 1994, at which Trish White retained the seat for Labor.[ citation needed ]

Life after politics

In August 2003, Arnold received a Ph.D. in sociolinguistics from the University of Adelaide (Graduate School of Education). In his doctoral thesis, he drew a number of conclusions that were based on the study of the language of Asturianu (also known as Bable), spoken in the northern Spanish province known as the Principau d’Asturies. [3] [4]

Arnold was Chief Executive of the humanitarian organisation World Vision Australia from 1997 until 2003. In 2003, he was appointed Regional Vice President of World Vision International for the Asia Pacific Region, [5] based in Bangkok, Thailand. In October 2006, he was appointed Senior Director (Board Development & Peer Review) for World Vision International, heading a team assisting World Vision boards and advisory councils in the development of their governance capacity, and also for administering peer review programs in World Vision partnerships.

On 8 December 2007, the Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, the Most Revd Jeffrey Driver, announced Arnold's appointment as Chief Executive of Anglicare SA, [6] and he served in that role from 18 March 2008 [7] to 30 June 2012. He left to explore ordination to the Anglican priesthood, [8] and was succeeded by the Reverend Peter Sandeman. [9]

Arnold was ordained as a deacon in Adelaide in November 2013. [10] In December 2014, he was ordained a priest by the Archbishop of Adelaide, and is currently serving as Assistant Priest at St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide. [11]

He was chair of the Don Dunstan Foundation from 2010 to June 2020, when Jane Lomax-Smith AM was announced as the new chair. [12] Arnold remains on the Board as Director and Patron. [13]

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References

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  2. SA Votes 2014: Ramsay
  3. "Lynn Arnold to receive doctorate". The University of Adelaide (press release). 5 August 2003. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  4. Lingua Nullius: A Retrospect and Prospect about Australia's First Languages Archived 22 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Transcript), Lowitja O'Donoghue Oration 2016, 31 May 2016
  5. "Lynn Arnold, Vice President Asia Pacific Region". World Vision. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 26 June 2006.
  6. "Anglicare SA appoints new chief executive". Anglicare SA (press release). 8 December 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
  7. "Lynn Arnold pits Anglicare against 'dead-end options'". Anglicare SA (press release). 18 March 2007. Archived from the original on 29 March 2008. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
  8. Dr Lynn Arnold announces resignation as CEO, (16 April 2012), Media Release, Anglicare SA accessed 10 May 2013
  9. New CEO of Anglicare SA announced, (12 August 12), Media Release, Anglicare SA accessed 10 May 2013
  10. "Former SA premier Lynn Arnold ordained as deacon by Anglican Church". ABC News. 1 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  11. "Our Team". St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  12. "Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM appointed as new Chair of the Don Dunstan Foundation". Don Dunstan Foundation. 10 May 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  13. "The Hon. Rev. Dr Lynn Arnold AO". Don Dunstan Foundation. Retrieved 4 June 2020.

 

Political offices
Preceded by Premier of South Australia
1992 1993
Succeeded by
Preceded by Leader of the Opposition
in South Australia

1993 1994
Succeeded by
Parliament of South Australia
Preceded by Member for Salisbury
1979 1985
District abolished
New division Member for Ramsay
1985 1993
Succeeded by
Member for Taylor
1993 1994
Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Leader of the Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch)
1992 1994
Succeeded by