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Members Of The South Australian Legislative Council, 2022–2026
This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council, members of the South Australian Legislative Council between 2022 and 2026. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each state election, half of these members were elected at the 2018 South Australian state election, 2018 state election with terms expiring in 2026, while the other half were elected at the 2022 South Australian state election, 2022 state election with terms expiring in 2030. See also * Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 2022–2026 {{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2022-2026 Members of South Australian parliaments by term 21st-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The South Australian Legislative Council
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Dennis Hood
Dennis Garry Edward Hood (born 12 January 1970) is an Australian politician who began his political career as a member of the South Australian Legislative Council in 2006 on the Family First Party's ticket. In 2017, Family First merged into the Australian Conservatives and Hood joined the Liberal Party after the 2018 state election. Early life and career Dennis Hood was born in Woodside, South Australia, Australia and raised in Salisbury. In Hood's youth, his father held three jobs and his mother, who is blind, worked as a meat packer. Hood holds a Bachelor of Economics with honours in politics and philosophy and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from the University of Adelaide. Career Prior to working in politics, Hood worked in pharmaceuticals as a financial executive for Johnson & Johnson. He became the Federal Director for the Family First Party in 2005 and ran for the South Australian Legislative Council the following year as their primary candidate. He was elected to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Wortley
Russell Paul Wortley 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. Early life Wortley worked as a plumber and gas fitter before being elected as a union official in 1984. He is a former head of the Gas sub-branch of the Transport Workers Union in South Australia. He was a councillor for the Fitzroy Ward of the Prospect City Council from 1987 to 1993. 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. Parliament First elected at the 2006 election, Wortley was re-elected at the 2014 election for a second eight-year term. Policy interests include education, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Wade
Stephen Graham Wade (born 28 March 1960) 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. Background and early career Wade was born in Victoria, he moved to Adelaide with his family in 1974. He attended Pembroke School, before studying a Bachelor of Law and Economics at the University of Adelaide. Wade worked as a Parliamentary Advisor at a state and federeal level, including to former Minister for Health Dr Michael Armitage. He then worked in Corporate Governance and served on a number of boards, including as Chair of the Julia Farr Services Inc, and was a fellow of the Australian Institute of Corporate Affairs Political career Wade nominated for the Liberal Party's Legislative Council ticket for the 2006 state el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Stephens
Terence John Stephens (born 11 June 1959) is an Australian politician, and a member of the South Australian Legislative Council since being elected in 2002, representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. He is the President of the South Australian Legislative Council since May 2022. He previously served in this role from February to September 2020, but resigned after becoming embroiled in an allowances scandal. Background Prior to his entry in to politics, Stephens was a company director for 20 years, and was involved in community activities, being a life member of South Whyalla Football Club, life member of the Whyalla Football League, patron of Norwood District Basketball Club, a City of Whyalla Councillor, a member of the Whyalla Chamber of Commerce, and chair of the Westlands Traders Association. Parliamentary service Because the Liberals lost the 2002 state election to the Labor Party, and Labor retained government at subsequent elections, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Simms (politician)
Robert Andrew Simms (born 26 March 1984) is an Australian politician, representing the Greens South Australia. He was a Senator for South Australia from 2015 to 2016, an Area Councillor for the City of Adelaide from 2014 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2021. Since May 2021, he has been a member of the South Australian Legislative Council. Early life Simms was born on 26 March 1984 in Yorkshire, England, the son of an English father and Australian mother originally from Broken Hill, New South Wales. The family moved to Australia in 1987 and settled in Adelaide, South Australia. Simms attended primary school in Flagstaff Hill before going on to Aberfoyle Park High School, where he was a member of the debating club and served on the student council. He holds a Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (Honours), a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in politics and sociology) and a Graduate Certificate in Journalism. he was partway through a PhD in political philosophy at Flinders University where he ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Scriven
Clare Michele Scriven is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2018 state election. Scriven was raised in Mount Gambier, before living and working in Adelaide for the Australian Electoral Commission from 2007. She later returned to Mount Gambier. She was previously the State Manager of the Australian Forest Products Association, and had post-graduate degrees in management and business. She and her husband Gerard has six children. On 10 April 2018, Scriven was elevated to the Malinauskas Labor shadow cabinet as: Deputy Leader in the Legislative Council, Shadow Minister for Industry & Skills, and Shadow Minister for Forestry. Following the 2022 election, Scriven has served as the Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development and Minister for Forest Industries in the Malinauskas ministry since March 2022. She is one of the two regional ministers in the cabinet, the other being Independent mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Pnevmatikos
Irene Pnevmatikos is an Australian politician. She was a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 2018 to 2023. Pnevmatikos was a lawyer A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solic ... before her election, and is associated with the Left faction. She resigned due to ill health in 2023. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Members of the South Australian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia Women members of the South Australian Legislative Council 21st-century Australian politicians 21st-century Australian women politicians {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Pangallo
Frank Pangallo (born October 1954) is an Australian journalist and politician. He has been an SA Best member of the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2018 state election. Pangallo worked for the ''News'' in Adelaide, becoming editor in 1989, and from 1995 was a television reporter on ''Today Tonight''. In 2017 he became a media advisor to Nick Xenophon Nick Xenophon ( Nicholas Xenophou; born 29 January 1959) is an Australian politician and lawyer who was a Senator for South Australia from 2008 to 2017. He was the leader of two political parties: Nick Xenophon Team federally, and Nick Xenophon .... He was second on the SA Best ticket at the 2018 state election. References 1954 births Living people Members of the South Australian Legislative Council Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST members of the Parliament of South Australia 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tung Ngo
Tung The Ngo ( vi, Tùng Ngô, ; born 1972) is an Australian politician in the South Australian Legislative Council for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party since the 2014 election. Ngo is linked with the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA). As a child, Ngo spent a year and a half in a refugee camp in the Philippines Palawan Refugee Camp before arriving in Australia as a ten year old with his older sister in 1982. He attended Adelaide High School then University of South Australia where he attained a degree in Computer and Information Science. Tung became the first Vietnamese person elected to Local Government in South Australia, he was elected to the, then City of Enfield Council in 1995. During his election campaign, Tung was targeted by white supremacists and personally criticized at their protests. Despite intimidation and threats, having witnessed divisive intolerance, as a local Councillor Tung wanted to break down barriers bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggie Martin
Reggie Brian Martin (born 27 November 1978) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2022 state election. Martin was born in Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the ... and was educated at Taperoo High School and the University of Adelaide. He became an official in the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association and rose to become assistant secretary of the state Labor Party in 2011 and state secretary from 2012. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Members of the South Australian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyam Maher
Kyam Joseph Maher is an Australian politician who has been Attorney-General of South Australia and the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council since March 2022. He was appointed to a casual vacancy in the South Australian Legislative Council for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party on 17 October 2012. He previously served in the Cabinet of South Australia between 2015 and 2018 and was the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council between 2016 and 2018. Background Maher is of Aboriginal descent. He grew up in Mount Gambier and attended Grant High School there. He does not consider that he experienced the disadvantage and racism that is common for many Aboriginal people in Australia. He left Mount Gambier to study law and economics at the University of Adelaide. Maher was a lawyer and political staffer before becoming South Australian state secretary of the Australian Labor Party. In 2006, Maher was an inaugural committee member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |