Russell Wortley | |
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President of the South Australian Legislative Council | |
In office 6 May 2014 –3 May 2018 | |
Preceded by | John Gazzola |
Succeeded by | Andrew McLachlan |
Minister for Industrial Relations | |
In office 23 June 2011 –21 January 2013 | |
Premier | Mike Rann Jay Weatherill |
Preceded by | Paul Holloway |
Succeeded by | John Rau |
Member of the South Australian Legislative Council | |
Assumed office 18 March 2006 | |
Preceded by | Terry Cameron |
Councillor for the City of Prospect | |
In office 2 May 1987 –1 May 1993 | |
Constituency | Fitzroy |
Personal details | |
Born | 21 April 1957 |
Political party | Australian Labor Party (SA) |
Spouse | Dana Wortley |
Russell Paul Wortley (born 21 April 1957) [1] is an Australian politician who has served in the South Australian Legislative Council for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party since the 2006 election. He has served as President of the South Australian Legislative Council from 2014 to the 2018 election.
Wortley worked as a plumber and gas fitter before being elected as a union official in 1984. [2] He is a former head of the Gas sub-branch of the Transport Workers Union in South Australia. [3] He was a councillor for the Fitzroy Ward of the Prospect City Council from 1987 to 1993. [4] [2] He has served as a member of a number of government and community organisations including the Occupational Health and Safety Commission,the Workers Appeal Tribunal and the Industrial Relations Advisory Committee. He is a Justice of the Peace. [5]
First elected at the 2006 election,Wortley was re-elected at the 2014 election for a second eight-year term. [6]
Policy interests include education,health,industrial relations,aged care,environment and natural resources. [5] Wortley has served in many committees and select committees,and served as Minister for Industrial Relations and State/Local Government Relations from 2011 to 2013. [6]
He served as President of the South Australian Legislative Council from 6 May 2014 until 3 May 2018. [6] [7]
Wortley is married to fellow state Labor politician Dana Wortley. They have one son. [2]
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