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Jack Snelling
John James "Jack" Snelling (born 8 November 1972) is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Playford from the 1997 election until his retirement in 2018. Snelling left the Labor Party in 2021 to found the Family First Party. Background Prior to his election into politics, Snelling was an electoral officer, and a staffer in the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA). Snelling was a supporter of the work of Christopher Pearson. Parliament Entering parliament in 1997 at the age of 24, he was the youngest member of the House of Assembly at the time. He was Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly for the Rann Labor government from 2006 to 2010. He also served as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees. He is aligned with Labor's right faction. A consequence of the major 2016 electoral redistribution was that two thirds of the voters in Snelling's electorate of Playford will be mov ...
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Treasurer Of South Australia
The Treasurer of South Australia is the Cabinet minister in the Government of South Australia who is responsible for the financial management of that state's budget sector. The Urban Renewal Authority, trading as Renewal SA, lies within the Treasurer's portfolio. The current Treasurer is The Hon. Stephen Mullighan , a member of the Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch). Responsibilities The Treasurer is responsible for the financial management of the state of South Australia. Renewal SA Since 28 July 2020 and the Urban Renewal Authority, trading as Renewal SA, has been within the Treasurer's portfolio. Renewal SA is responsible for undertaking, supporting and promoting urban development and urban renewal that aligns to the government's strategic plan, in particular the ''30-Year Plan for Greater Adelaide'' (2017). List of South Australian treasurers The following is a list of treasurers of South Australia, from 1839 to present. As self-government and the Parli ...
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Shop, Distributive And Allied Employees Association
The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association (SDA) is the largest private sector trade union in Australia, representing retail, fast-food and warehousing workers, and has branches in every state and territory. Its membership is predominantly in casual and insecure employment within the retail and fast food sectors. The union also represents a significant membership of workers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The main categories of workers covered by the SDA are retail, fast food and warehousing workers but the SDA also covers reserve and backdock employees, pharmacies, footwear repairing, modelling, and hairdressing/beauty. The SDA has overlapping with other trade unions and their areas of coverage, such as the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union in the case of retail meat employees and the United Workers Union's coverage of warehousing employees and bakers employees. The SDA has branches across Australia. There is the Victorian Branch ...
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Leader Of Government Business In The House Of Assembly (South Australia)
The Leader of Government Business in the South Australian House of Assembly, commonly known as Leader of the House, is responsible for the management of government business in the lower house of the Parliament of South Australia. The office is held by a member of the Cabinet of South Australia. The Leader of Government Business, also known as Manager of Government Business, is responsible for managing and scheduling government business including: * the order in which government issues are to be dealt with * tactical matters in reaction to impediments to such management * negotiation with their opposition counterpart (the Manager of Opposition Business) about the order in which bills are to be debated, and * time allotted for debate. List of government business leaders See also * Leader of Government Business in the Legislative Council (South Australia) * Leader of Government Business (other) * Cabinet of South Australia The Cabinet of South Australia is the chief po ...
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ABC News (Australia)
ABC News, or ABC News and Current Affairs, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcasting within Australia and the rest of the world, the service covers both local and world affairs. The division of the organisation, which is called ABC News, Analysis and Investigations. is responsible for all news-gathering and coverage across the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's various television, radio, and online platforms. Some of the services included under the auspices of the division are the ABC News TV channel (formerly ABC News 24); the long-running radio news programs, '' AM'', '' The World Today'', and '' PM''; ABC NewsRadio, a 24-hour continuous news radio channel; and radio news bulletins and programs on ABC Local Radio, ABC Radio National, ABC Classic FM, and Triple J. ABC News Online has an extensive online presence which includes many written news reports and videos available via ABC Online, an ABC News mobile app (ABC Liste ...
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Electoral District Of Florey
Florey is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after scientist Howard Florey, who was responsible for the development of penicillin. It is a suburban electorate in Adelaide's north-east, taking in the suburbs of Ingle Farm, South Australia, Ingle Farm, Modbury North, South Australia, Modbury North, Para Vista, South Australia, Para Vista, Pooraka, South Australia, Pooraka, Valley View, South Australia, Valley View, and Walkley Heights, South Australia, Walkley Heights, as well as parts of Modbury, South Australia, Modbury and Northfield, South Australia, Northfield. Florey was created at the electoral redistribution of 1969 as a notionally safe Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Labor electorate, and was first contested at the 1970 South Australian state election, 1970 election. Mostly it was safely held by the Labor party until the 1989 South Australian state election, 1 ...
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Cabinet Of South Australia
The Cabinet of South Australia is the chief policy-making organ of the Government of South Australia. In South Australia, the cabinet is interchangeably known as the ministry as there is no "outer ministry" – therefore all ministers are in cabinet. The current fifteen-member cabinet, the Malinauskas ministry, is headed by Premier Peter Malinauskas of the South Australian Labor Party. Composition of ministry As of 24 March 2022. All but one cabinet ministers are members of the South Australian Labor Party, with the remaining cabinet minister an Independent member. See also * Malinauskas ministry * Government of South Australia The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government, SA Government or more formally, His Majesty’s Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of South Australia. It is modelled o ... * List of South Australian Ministries References External links * {{Government of South Austral ...
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2014 South Australian State Election
The 2014 South Australian state election elected members to the 53rd Parliament of South Australia on 15 March 2014, to fill all 47 seats in the House of Assembly (lower house) and 11 of 22 seats in the Legislative Council (upper house). The 12-year-incumbent Australian Labor Party (SA) government, led by Premier Jay Weatherill, won its fourth consecutive four-year term in government, a record 16 years of Labor government, defeating the opposition Liberal Party of Australia (SA), led by Opposition Leader Steven Marshall. The election resulted in a hung parliament with 23 seats for Labor and 22 for the Liberals. The balance of power rested with the two crossbench independents, Bob Such and Geoff Brock. Such did not indicate whom he would support in a minority government before he went on medical leave for a brain tumour, diagnosed one week after the election. University of Adelaide Professor and Political Commentator Clem McIntyre said the absence of Such virtually guarante ...
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2010 South Australian State Election
The 2010 South Australian state election elected members to the 52nd Parliament of South Australia on 20 March 2010. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house, whose current members were elected at the 2006 election, and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house, last filled at the 2002 election, became vacant. The incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party government led by Premier Mike Rann was elected to a third four-year term over the opposition centre-right Liberal Party of Australia led by Leader of the Opposition Isobel Redmond. Labor's landslide 7.7 percent swing to a two-party-preferred vote of 56.8 percent at the 2006 election was reversed at this election with a swing of 8.4 percent, finishing with a two-party vote of 48.4 percent, however, Labor retained majority government with 26 of 47 seats, a net loss of two. Labor lost the inner metropolitan seats of Adelaide, Morialta and Norwood to the Liberals while Nationals SA member Karlene Ma ...
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InDaily
''InDaily'', initially the online subscriber daily news service is of weekly newspaper, ''The Independent Weekly'', replaced the printed version entirely in November 2010. It shares its website with ''CityMag'', a weekly digital magazine which also produces a quarterly print magazine, and ''SA Life'', a monthly print magazine. All are owned by Solstice Media. ''The Independent Weekly'', established in September 2004, was a weekly independent newspaper published and circulated in Adelaide, capital of South Australia. The newspaper was released on Saturdays. History The newspaper's owners, Solstice Media, is itself "owned by over 100 South Australian investors and also publishes industry magazines including SA Defence Business, the SA Mines and Energy Journal, Place architecture magazine, and the Catholic family newsletter Southern Cross". The newspaper launched an online subscriber daily news service called InDaily on the anniversary of its first year in operation. In March ...
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Frances Bedford
Frances Ellen Bedford (born 5 November 1953) is an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Electoral district of Florey, Florey from 1997 South Australian state election, 1997 state election until 2022 South Australian state election, 2022, first for the Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Labor Party and from 2017 as an independent. Early life Bedford was born in Sydney and moved to Melbourne and then Adelaide after the death of her mother. She became involved in politics and became an electorate officer for former Labor MP Peter Duncan (Australian politician), Peter Duncan. Parliament Bedford was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Electoral district of Florey, Florey at the 1997 South Australian state election, 1997 state election for the Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Labor Party. Hailing from the Socialist Left (Australia), Labor Left, Bedford has described herself as bei ...
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Electoral District Of Florey
Florey is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after scientist Howard Florey, who was responsible for the development of penicillin. It is a suburban electorate in Adelaide's north-east, taking in the suburbs of Ingle Farm, South Australia, Ingle Farm, Modbury North, South Australia, Modbury North, Para Vista, South Australia, Para Vista, Pooraka, South Australia, Pooraka, Valley View, South Australia, Valley View, and Walkley Heights, South Australia, Walkley Heights, as well as parts of Modbury, South Australia, Modbury and Northfield, South Australia, Northfield. Florey was created at the electoral redistribution of 1969 as a notionally safe Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Labor electorate, and was first contested at the 1970 South Australian state election, 1970 election. Mostly it was safely held by the Labor party until the 1989 South Australian state election, 1 ...
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Electoral District Of Playford
Playford is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the long serving South Australian premier Tom Playford, it is a 22.7 km² suburban electorate in Adelaide's north, taking in the suburbs of Green Fields, Mawson Lakes, Para Hills, Para Hills West, Parafield and Parafield Gardens. Playford was created as a safe Labor seat and was first contested at the 1970 election, where it was won by Labor candidate Terry McRae. At the 1989 election, McRae resigned from politics, with the seat won by Labor candidate John Quirke. Though typically a safe Labor seat, the seat technically became marginal, reduced to just a 2.7 percent two-party margin at the 1993 election landslide. At the 1997 election, Quirke resigned to enter the Australian Senate, with the seat won by Labor candidate Jack Snelling John James "Jack" Snelling (born 8 November 1972) is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for the South Aust ...
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