Related Research Articles
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.
John Gilbert Alexander is an Australian former politician and former professional tennis player.
Fisher was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It was created in 1970 and named after Sir James Fisher,a colonial politician and the first mayor of Adelaide. It was abolished in a 2016 redistribution and its last MP,Nat Cook was elected to represent its replacement,Hurtle Vale,at the 2018 state election. It covers a 94.2 km2 suburban and semi rural area on the southern fringes of Adelaide,taking in the suburbs of Aberfoyle Park,Chandlers Hill,Cherry Gardens,Coromandel East,Happy Valley,Reynella East and parts of Clarendon,O'Halloran Hill and Woodcroft.
Davenport is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after nineteenth-century pioneer and politician Sir Samuel Davenport. Davenport is a 57.7 km²electorate covering part of outer suburban Adelaide and the southern foothills of the Adelaide Hills. It takes in the suburbs of Aberfoyle Park,Bedford Park,Bellevue Heights,Chandlers Hill,Cherry Gardens,and Flagstaff Hill;and part of Happy Valley.
Iain Frederick Evans is a former Australian politician. He was leader of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2006 to 2007.
Robert Bruce Such was a South Australian politician. He was the member for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1989 until his death in 2014. He defeated Labor MP Philip Tyler at the 1989 election and was a member of the Liberals until 2000 when he became an independent. Such was Minister for Employment,Training and Further Education,and Minister for Youth Affairs,in the Brown Liberal government from 1993 to 1996. He served as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly for the Rann Labor government from 2005 to 2006. Such was joint Father of the House with Michael Atkinson from 2012.
Martin Leslie James Hamilton-Smith is a former Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Waite from the 1997 election until his retirement in 2018. First elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party,Hamilton-Smith was the state parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party and the Leader of the Opposition in South Australia from 2007 to 2009,and a Minister in the Kerin Liberal government from 2001 to 2002.
State elections were held in South Australia on 25 November 1989. 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 defeated the Liberal Party of Australia led by Leader of the Opposition John Olsen. Labor won 22 out of 47 seats,and secured a majority of 24 with the support of two Independent Labor members.
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.
Arthur Dix Marshall was an Australian politician and sportsman from Western Australia.
Sir Keith Cameron Wilson was an Australian lawyer and politician. He was a Senator for South Australia from 1938 to 1944,representing the United Australia Party,and later returned to parliament as a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1954 and 1955 to 1966. Despite his long service he never held ministerial office.
This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1986 to 1989,as elected at the 1985 state election:
Reginald Gillard was an Australian politician. Born in Lithgow,New South Wales,he was a managing partner before his military service (1941–46). Long prominent in local politics,he served as mayor of Lithgow City Council from 1969 to 1972,and again from 1973 to 1976.
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.
Stephen John Baker was an Australian politician and 7th Deputy Premier of South Australia from 1993 to 1996. Baker represented the Liberal Party in the electoral district of Waite,formerly Mitcham in the House of Assembly.
John Edward Reeves is a former Australian politician,lawyer and judge. He was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1983 to 1984,a prominent barrister in Darwin afterwards,the author of the controversial 1999 Reeves Report on Aboriginal land rights in Australia. He served as a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia from November 2007 to January 2022.
A by-election was held in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland seat of Redlands on 2 November 1985. It was triggered by the death of sitting National Party member John Goleby.
Beryl Alice Evans was an Australian politician.
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.
References
- ↑ Moran, Brendan (June 1986). "Australian Political Chronicle: July–December 1985". Australian Journal of Politics and History. 32 (2): 291, 293. ISSN 0004-9522.
- ↑ "Old irritations play out in vote for Evans". The Adelaide Review . Adelaide, Australia. 2004. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
- ↑ Robbins, Jane (June 1986). "Australian Political Chronicle: July–December 1986". Australian Journal of Politics and History. 33 (2): 116. ISSN 0004-9522.
- ↑ "Stanley (Stan) George Evans OAM". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia . Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ↑ Richardson, Tom (13 November 2018). "Stan's last stand? Controversial Lib veteran falls short in council bid". InDaily . Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- ↑ "Hon Iain Frederick Evans". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia . Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ↑ https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/978944
- ↑ https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1126295
- ↑ https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2003339
 | This article about a Liberal Party of Australia politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |