Dean Craig Brown,AO is a politician who served as the Premier of South Australia between 14 December 1993 and 28 November 1996,and also served as 10th Deputy Premier of South Australia between 22 October 2001 and 5 March 2002,representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. He became premier when he led the party to a landslide win at the 1993 state election,and lost the office when he lost a leadership challenge to John Olsen in November 1996.
David Julian Fawcett is an Australian Liberal Party politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2011. Fawcett served in the Morrison Government as Assistant Minister for Defence from 2018 to 2019.
Raymond Steele Hall is a former Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also served in the federal Parliament as a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977 and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996.
The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903,when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Collet Barker,an early explorer of the region at the mouth of the Murray River. The 63,886 km²seat currently stretches from Morgan in the north to Port MacDonnell in the south,taking in the Murray Mallee,the Riverland,the Murraylands and most of the Barossa Valley,and includes the towns of Barmera,Berri,Bordertown,Coonawarra,Keith,Kingston SE,Loxton,Lucindale,Mannum,Millicent,Mount Gambier,Murray Bridge,Naracoorte,Penola,Renmark,Robe,Tailem Bend,Waikerie,and parts of Nuriootpa and Tanunda.
The Division of Sturt is an Australian electoral division in South Australia. It was proclaimed at the South Australian redistribution of 11 May 1949. Sturt was named for Captain Charles Sturt,nineteenth century explorer. Following the loss of Boothby in 2022,it is currently the only seat in Adelaide held by the Liberal Party.
The Division of Bonython was an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia between 1955 and 2004. In its final configuration,it was based on the outer northern suburbs of Elizabeth,Munno Para,Parafield,Paralowie,Salisbury,Virginia,and to the town of One Tree Hill in Adelaide's outskirts. Bonython's first 14 years saw vast boundaries simultaneously cover as far north as Gawler,as far south as Magill Road at Norwood,and as far west as Ottoway. The seat would continue to cross south of Grand Junction Road until the creation of the Division of Makin at the pre-1984 redistribution.
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.
The Division of Wakefield was an Australian electoral division in the state of South Australia. The seat was a hybrid rural-urban electorate that stretched from Salisbury in the outer northern suburbs of Adelaide at the south of the seat right through to the Clare Valley at the north of the seat,135 km from Adelaide. It included the suburbs of Elizabeth,Craigmore,Munno Para,and part of Salisbury,and the towns of Balaklava,Clare,Freeling,Gawler,Kapunda,Mallala,Riverton,Tarlee,Virginia,Williamstown,and part of Port Wakefield.
Ian Bonython Cameron Wilson AM was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and represented the Division of Sturt in federal parliament. He held ministerial office in the Fraser Government from 1981 to 1983.
State elections were held in South Australia on 11 December 1993. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Labor government,led by Premier Lynn Arnold,was defeated by the Liberal Opposition,led by Dean Brown,in a landslide victory. The Liberals won what is still the largest majority government in South Australian history.
State elections were held in South Australia on 7 December 1985. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Premier of South Australia John Bannon increased its majority,and defeated the Liberal Party of Australia led by Leader of the Opposition John Olsen.
State elections were held in South Australia on 6 November 1982. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Premier of South Australia David Tonkin was defeated by the Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition John Bannon.
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.
This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1993 to 1997,as elected at the 1993 state election:
Peter Duncan is an Australian Labor Party politician and one of the relatively few members of parliament to have served not only in both a state and national parliament but also as a minister in both cases.
This article provides details on candidates who stood for the 2004 Australian federal election. The election was held on 9 October 2004.
This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1982 to 1985,as elected at the 1982 state election:
The 2008 Mayo by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Mayo,located in Adelaide,South Australia,on 6 September 2008,following the retirement of Liberal Party MP and former Liberal leader Alexander Downer. The by-election was held on the same day as the Lyne by-election,and the Western Australian state election.
A by-election was held for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Elizabeth on 9 April 1994. This was triggered by the resignation of former state Labor MHA Martyn Evans,who moved to the federal seat of Bonython at the 1994 by-election. The seat,created at the 1969 redistribution and first contested at the 1970 state election,was held by Labor from 1970 until 1984,when Evans won it as an independent Labor candidate. In 1993,he rejoined the Labor Party.
The Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division),commonly known as the South Australian Liberals,is the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. It was formed as the Liberal and Country League (LCL) in 1932 and became the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945. It retained its Liberal and Country League name before changing to its current name in 1974. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia,the other being the Australian Labor Party (SA Branch). The party has been led by Leader of the Opposition David Speirs since the 2022 state election after a one-term government.
