The University of South Australia (UniSA) is a public research university in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network of universities,and is the largest university in South Australia with approximately 32,000 students.
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.
Australian Greens SA is a green political party located in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a member of the federation of the Australian Greens party.
Jay Wilson Weatherill is an Australian politician who was the 45th Premier of South Australia,serving from 21 October 2011 until 19 March 2018. Weatherill represented the House of Assembly seat of Cheltenham as a member of the South Australian Labor Party from the 2002 election to 17 December 2018,when he retired.
Ann Marie Bressington is an Australian politician. She was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council at the 2006 South Australian election as Nick Xenophon's running mate on his Independent No Pokies ticket. Her election was a surprise as it was not expected that two people on the ticket would be elected.
Ian Keith Hunter is an Australian politician,representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party in the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2006 state election. Hunter served in the Cabinet of South Australia from October 2011 to 2018.
No Pokies was an independent South Australian Legislative Council ticket that ran upper house candidates at the 1997,2002 and 2006 state elections. Poker machines or "pokies" are the Australian version of slot machines. It was replaced by the Nick Xenophon Team in 2013.
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.
The Parnell–Bressington filibuster is a record-breaking filibuster that occurred in the South Australian upper house,the Legislative Council,on 8 May 2008,involving SA Greens MLC Mark Parnell and No Pokies MLC Ann Bressington.
The Conservation Council of South Australia,also known as Conservation SA and Conservation Council SA,is an environmental organisation serving as a peak body,representing over 50 member groups,representing over 90,000 individual members,in the state of South Australia.
Tammy Anne Franks is an Australian politician who was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council for the SA Greens at the 2010 state election.
Penelope Lesley Wright is South Australia's Guardian for Children and Young People in Care.
The Whyalla Steelworks is a fully integrated steelworks and the only manufacturer of rail in Australia. Iron ore is mined in the Middleback Range to feed the steelworks,resulting in the distribution of finished steel products of over 90 different grades. It occupies a 1,000 ha site on the shore of False Bay,Spencer Gulf and is the largest employer in Whyalla,South Australia.
This is a list of candidates of the 2014 South Australian state election.
Robert Andrew Simms is an Australian politician,representing the Greens South Australia. He was a Senator for South Australia from 2015 to 2016,an Area Councillor for the City of Adelaide from 2014 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2021. Since May 2021,he has been a member of the South Australian Legislative Council.
This is a list of candidates of the 2018 South Australian state election. The election was held on 17 March 2018.
SA-BEST,formerly known as Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST is a political party in South Australia. It was founded in 2017 by Nick Xenophon as a state-based partner to his Nick Xenophon Team party. In 2018,deputy leader of NXT Stirling Griff said that SA-Best is "a separate entity,a separate association,a separate party" from NXT.
This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council between 2018 and 2022. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each state election,half of these members were elected at the 2014 state election with terms expiring in 2022,while the other half were elected at the 2018 state election with terms expiring in 2026.
The 2022 South Australian state election will elect members to the 55th Parliament of South Australia on 19 March 2022. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house,whose current members were elected at the 2018 election,and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house,last filled at the 2014 election,will become vacant.
The Parliamentary Budget Advisory Service was established in South Australia in December 2017 to provide expertise to assist candidates in costing their campaign policies. It was an initiative of the Weatherill Government which preceded the 2018 South Australian election by three months.
