Christine Ann Gallus is an Australian former politician. She served as a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2004,representing two different seats in South Australia—the Division of Hawker from 1990 to 1993 and the Division of Hindmarsh from 1993 to 2004. She was born in Adelaide and was educated at the Firbank Girls' Grammar School in Melbourne,Flinders University and the Australian National University. She was a researcher with the South Australian Health Commission,an advertising executive,journalist and small business director before entering politics.
Andrew John Southcott is an Australian politician and medical practitioner. He was the Liberal member for the House of Representatives seat of Boothby from the 1996 election until he stood down at the 2016 election.
The Division of Swan is an Australian electoral division located in Western Australia.
The Division of Boothby is an Australian federal electoral division in South Australia. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was redistributed on 2 October 1903 and is named after William Boothby (1829–1903),the Returning Officer for the first federal election.
The Division of Hindmarsh is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia covering the north western and western coastal suburbs of Adelaide. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was split on 2 October 1903,and was first contested at the 1903 election,though now on slightly different boundaries. The Division is named after Sir John Hindmarsh,who was Governor of South Australia from 1836 to 1838. Since the 2019 Australian federal election The Division of Hindmarsh consists of part of the City of Charles Sturt,part of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield,and part of the City of West Torrens.
The Division of Mayo is an Australian electoral division located to the east and south of Adelaide,South Australia. Created in the state redistribution of 3 September 1984,the division is named after Helen Mayo,a social activist and the first woman elected to an Australian University Council. The 9,315 km2 rural seat covers an area from the Barossa Valley in the north to Cape Jervis in the south. Taking in the Adelaide Hills,Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island regions,its largest population centre is Mount Barker. Its other population centres are Aldgate,Bridgewater,Littlehampton,McLaren Vale,Nairne,Stirling,Strathalbyn and Victor Harbor,and its smaller localities include American River,Ashbourne,Balhannah,Brukunga,Carrickalinga,Charleston,Cherry Gardens,Clarendon,Crafers,Cudlee Creek,Currency Creek,Delamere,Echunga,Forreston,Goolwa,Gumeracha,Hahndorf,Houghton,Inglewood,Kersbrook,Kingscote,Langhorne Creek,Lobethal,Macclesfield,McLaren Flat,Meadows,Middleton,Milang,Mount Compass,Mount Pleasant,Mount Torrens,Mylor,Myponga,Normanville,Norton Summit,Oakbank,Penneshaw,Piccadilly,Port Elliot,Second Valley,Springton,Summertown,Uraidla,Willunga,Woodchester,Woodside,Yankalilla,and parts of Birdwood,Old Noarlunga and Upper Sturt.
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,a nineteenth century British Military officer and explorer.
The Division of Hawker was an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia. The division was created in 1969 and abolished in 1993. It was named for Charles Hawker,who was a federal MP 1929–38. It was located in the southern suburbs of Adelaide and took in the suburbs of Ascot Park,Clovelly Park,Edwardstown,Glenelg,Goodwood and Morphettville. Hawker was located between the seats of Hindmarsh and Kingston.
Steven Georganas is an Australian politician and is the Australian Labor Party member for the House of Representatives seat of Adelaide in South Australia since the 2019 Australian federal election. Previously,he had been the member for Hindmarsh from 2004 to 2013 and again from 2016 to 2019.
The Division of Port Adelaide was an Australian electoral division in the state of South Australia. The 181 km2 seat 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.
Ashford is a former electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly which included many of Adelaide's inner south western suburbs. The district formed part of three federal electorates:the Division of Hindmarsh,the Division of Boothby,and the Division of Adelaide. The former electorate included the suburbs of Ashford,Black Forest,Camden Park,Clarence Gardens,Clarence Park,Cumberland Park,Everard Park,Forestville,Glandore,Keswick,Kings Park,Novar Gardens and Plympton as well as parts of Edwardstown,Goodwood,Millswood,Plympton Park,South Plympton and Wayville. The former electorate covered an area of approximately 14.6 square kilometres (5.6 sq mi).
Colton is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is a 26.2 km2 suburban electorate on Adelaide's western beaches,taking in the suburbs of Adelaide Airport,Fulham,Fulham Gardens,Glenelg North,Henley Beach,Henley Beach South,Kidman Park,West Beach and part of Lockleys.
Christopher Maurice Pyne is a retired Australian politician. As a member of the Liberal Party,he held several ministerial positions in the Howard,Abbott,Turnbull and Morrison governments,and served as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Sturt from 1993 until his retirement in 2019.
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.
Jamie Edward Briggs is an Australian former politician,who represented the House of Representatives seat of Mayo for the Liberal Party of Australia from the 2008 Mayo by-election to the 2 July 2016 federal election. Briggs was promoted from a shadow parliamentary secretary role to the outer ministry upon the 2013 election of the Abbott government. He remained in the outer ministry,though with a change in portfolio in the Turnbull government;however,he quit the ministry and moved to the backbench in late 2015 following inappropriate conduct during an official overseas trip. Briggs lost his seat in the 2016 federal election to Nick Xenophon Team candidate Rebekha Sharkie.
Robert John Randall is an Australian politician. Randall was the Liberal MP for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Henley Beach from 1979 to 1982. Randall was also Liberal State President from 2003 to 2005,and a former Liberal Mayor of Henley and Grange Council. He held membership,c. 1998,with the Christian Democrats. Since 2008 he has held membership with Family First.
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.
A by-election for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly was held on 6 December 2014. The by-election was triggered by the death of independent MP Bob Such on 11 October 2014. Originally elected to Fisher for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 1989 election,defeating the one-term Australian Labor Party MP Philip Tyler,Such left the party in 2000.
Centre Alliance (CA),formerly known as the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT),is a centrist Australian political party based in the state of South Australia. It currently has one elected representative,Rebekha Sharkie in the House of Representatives.
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).
