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Results Of The 2018 South Australian State Election (Legislative Council)
This is a list of results for the Legislative Council at the 2018 South Australian state election. The 11 of 22 seats up for election were 4 Liberal, 4 Labor, 1 Green, 1 Conservative and 1 Dignity Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically. It is of significance in morality, ethics, law and politics as an extension of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inalienable .... The final outcome was 4 Liberal, 4 Labor, 2 Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST, SA Best and 1 Green. Carrying over from the 2014 election were 4 Liberal, 4 Labor, 1 Green, 1 Advance SA, and 1 Conservative; although the Conservative, Dennis Hood, defected to the Liberals nine days after the 2018 state election. So from 2018 to 2020, the 22 seat upper house composition was 9 Liberal on the government benches, 8 Labor on the opposition benches, and 5 to minor parties on the Crossbencher, crossbench, consisting of 2 SA Best, 2 Greens, and 1 Advance S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian Legislative Council
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. The upper house has 22 members elected for eight-year terms by proportional representation, with 11 members facing re-election every four years. It is elected in a similar manner to its federal counterpart, the Australian Senate. Casual vacancies—where a member resigns or dies—are filled by a joint sitting of both houses, who then elect a replacement. History Advisory council At the founding of the Province of South Australia under the ''South Australia Act 1834'', governance of the new colony was divided between the Governor of South Australia and a Resident Commissioner, who reported to a new body known as the ''South Australian Colonization Commission''. Under this arrangement, there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST
SA-Best (stylised SA-BEST), formerly known as Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST, is a political party in South Australia. It was founded in 2017 by Nick Xenophon as a state-based partner to his Nick Xenophon Team party (renamed to Centre Alliance in early 2018). After an unsuccessful 2022 South Australian state election, the party has two representatives in the South Australian Legislative Council, Connie Bonaros and Frank Pangallo, whose current terms expire in 2026. History Formation The party was registered on 4 July 2017. John Darley was the sole Nick Xenophon Team member in the South Australian Parliament until he left the party to become an independent on 17 August 2017. On 6 October 2017, Xenophon announced that he would be leaving the Federal Senate to contest the state seat of Hartley at the 2018 state election. Xenophon resigned from the Senate on 31 October 2017. At its 2018 annual general meeting, the South Australian party officially changed its name from Nick Xenophon ... [...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] |
Connie Bonaros
Constadina Bonaros is an Australian politician. She has been an SA Best member of the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2018 state election. Career Bonaros has undergraduate degrees in Laws and Arts (Modern Greek and Social Politics) from the University of Adelaide. She had worked as a lawyer from 2003 until 2006 before becoming an advisor to Nick Xenophon for over 12 years. In 2007, Bonaros served as Xenophon's campaign manager. From 2007 she served in John Darley's office, running second on the ticket to Darley at that years election. She left Darley's office to join Senator Stirling Griff's office as his chief of staff when he was elected at the 2016 federal election. Bonaros was campaign manager for SA Best during the 2018 election campaign, at which the party won two seats in the upper house (Bonaros and Frank Pangallo Frank Pangallo (born October 1954) is an Australian journalist and politician. He has been an SA Best member of the South Australian Leg ... [...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 member Ge ... [...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] |
Justin Hanson
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. Early life and education Justin Hanson grew up and went to school in the western suburbs of Adelaide, later studying at Christian Brothers College. He obtained Law and Arts degrees from the University of Adelaide. Career Hanson was elected as a councillor in the City of Tea Tree Gully in Balmoral Ward. He was a Director on the Board of Statewide Superannuation and served as the Legal Officer of the Australian Workers Union. He was also a board member and chair at the not-for-profit Neil Sachse Foundation Neil is a masculine name of Gaelic and Irish origin. The name is an anglicisation of the Irish ''Niall'' which is of disputed derivation. The Irish name may be derived from words meaning "cloud", "passionate", "victory", "honour" or "champion".. .... Poltiical career Gerry Kandelaars r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Bourke
Emily Sarah Bourke is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2018 state election. Bourke previously worked as a staffer for Premier Jay Weatherill. She was elevated to the top position on Labor's Legislative Council ticket by the Right faction after Leesa Vlahos withdrew. After Labor won government at the 2022 state election, Bourke was appointed by new Premier Peter Malinauskas to Cabinet as Assistant Minister to the Premier. In August 2022, she was appointed the assistant minister for autism. Early and personal life Bourke was born and grew up on a farm near Maitland on Yorke Peninsula. She studied in Adelaide then moved back to Yorke Peninsula to work for the Yorke Peninsula Country Times ''Yorke Peninsula Country Times'' is a weekly South Australian newspaper, which was first published on 4 September 1968. It was formed by the merging of ''Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times'' and ''South Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jing Lee
Jing Shyuan Lee (born 12 June 1967) is a Malaysian-Australian politician elected to the South Australian Legislative Council for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2010 state election. She was formerly the president of the Asia Pacific Business Council for Women. Early life After completing primary school in 1979, Lee emigrated from Malaysia to South Australia. During her first years in Australia, she joined an English language program and entered into the public school system. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of South Australia where she studied business management. Political career Lee ran as the fourth candidate on the Liberal ticket in the South Australian Legislative Council at the 2010 state election. She was elected to the Legislative Council on the back of a 39.4 percent Liberal primary vote. Since entering Parliament, Lee has taken the role of deputy whip of the opposition in the Legislative Coun ... [...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] |
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] |
David Ridgway (politician)
David Wickham Ridgway (born 14 November 1960) 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. Background Ridgway was elected state president of the South Australian Rural Youth Movement in 1982–83. In 1984 he won a six-month youth study tour to the UK. This experience heightened his interest in politics, especially in primary industries and regional development. Ridgway began working on the family farm and at 19 he took on management of the family's horticultural business. After purchasing the business in 1997 with his wife Meredith, they expanded the operation to become the largest producer of gladioli corms in Australia and New Zealand. Parliament Ridgway was elected from fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
