The Legislative Council,or upper house,is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house,the House of Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital,Adelaide.
This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council between 2002 and 2006. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each state election,half of these members were elected at the 1997 state election with terms expiring in 2006,while the other half were elected at the 2002 state election with terms expiring in 2010.
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.
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served in the 51st Parliament were affected by the 1991 referendum. The Council consisted of 42 members,6 elected in 1988,15 elected in 1991 and 21 elected in 1995. As members serve eight-year terms,half of the Council did not face re-election in 1995,and the members elected in 1995 did not face re-election until 2003. The President was Max Willis until 29 June 1998 and then Virginia Chadwick.</ref>
Michelle Hopkins Roberts is an Australian politician currently serving as Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. She has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Assembly since 1994. She served as a minister in the governments of Geoff Gallop and Alan Carpenter between 2001 and 2008. In November 2015,Roberts became the longest-serving female parliamentarian in Western Australia's history,breaking the record set by Liz Constable. She was a high school teacher,civil servant and local government councillor before entering politics.
Louise Clare Pratt is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2016,and previously from 2008 to 2014. She is a member of the Labor Party,and served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 2001 to 2007. She was the youngest woman ever elected to the Legislative Council at the time of her election,the second open lesbian to be elected to an Australian parliament,and was the first to have a transgender man as a partner.
Stephen Graham Wade is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the South Australian Legislative Council since May 2006,representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. Wade has served as the Minister for Health and Wellbeing in the Marshall Ministry between 22 March 2018 and 24 March 2022.
David Wickham Ridgway is a South Australian politician who served as a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 2002 to 2021,representing the Liberal Party of Australia (SA). Ridgway served as the Minister for Trade and Investment in the Marshall Ministry from 22 March 2018 to 26 July 2020,and as Minister for Tourism from March 2018 to January 2020.
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.
Robert Ivan Lucas is a former Australian politician and a former member of the South Australian Legislative Council between the 1982 election and the 2022 election,representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. Lucas served as the Treasurer of South Australia between 2018 and 2022 in the Marshall government,and previously served in the role between 1997 and 2002 in the Olsen and Kerin governments. Lucas was the Father of the Parliament until his retirement at the 2022 election.
Catherine Esther Doust is an Australian politician who has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia since 2001,representing South Metropolitan Region. She was President of the Legislative Council from 2017 to 2021,the first woman to hold the position.
Donna Evelyn Mary Faragher is an Australian politician who has been a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia since 2005,representing East Metropolitan Region. She became a minister in the government of Colin Barnett in 2008,becoming the youngest woman to hold ministerial office in Western Australia.
Marie Ann Ficarra is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2007 to 2015. She was previously a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Georges River,but was defeated during the landslide election of 1999. She was the Shadow Minister for the Environment for the New South Wales Opposition.
Jennifer Ann Gardiner is an Australian politician and former Nationals member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1991 to 2015.
Donald Thomas Harwin is an Australian politician. He was the New South Wales Special Minister of State and the Minister for the Public Service and Employee Relations,Aboriginal Affairs,and the Arts in the second Berejiklian ministry since April 2019;and the Vice-President of the Executive Council,and the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council since January 2017 in the Berejiklian government. He briefly resigned from his roles with effect from 15 April 2020,however was reinstated on 3 July 2020.
Wendy Ann Lovell is an Australian politician. Born in Sydney,New South Wales,she was a newsagent before becoming involved in politics. She held numerous posts with the Liberal Party,and was eventually elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Liberal member for North Eastern Province in 2002. Following the re-organisation of the Legislative Council,in 2006 she was a successful candidate for Northern Victoria Region,winning re-election in 2010,2014 and 2018.
Michael Mischin is an Australian barrister and politician who was a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 2009 to 2021,representing North Metropolitan Region. He was attorney-general in the government of Colin Barnett from 2012 to 2017.
Diana Vivienne Laidlaw,commonly referred to as Di Laidlaw,is a former Australian Liberal politician. She was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council (1982–2003) and held several ministerial posts.
John Joseph McVeigh is a former Australian politician. He was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2016 federal election,representing the Division of Groom. He was a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and sat in the Liberal party room. During the Turnbull Government he served in cabinet as Minister for Regional Development,Territories and Local Government from 2017 to 2018. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2012 to 2016 and was Minister for Agriculture,Fisheries and Forestry under Premier Campbell Newman.
Justin Hanson is an Australian politician who was appointed to the South Australian Legislative Council for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party on 28 February 2017.
