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Results Of The 2022 South Australian State Election (Legislative Council)
This is a list of results for the Legislative Council at the 2022 South Australian state election. The 11 of 22 seats up for election were 5 Liberal, 4 Labor, 1 Green, 1 Advance SA and 1 Dignity. The outcome was 5 Labor, 4 Liberal, 1 Green and 1 One Nation. Carrying over from the 2018 election were 4 Labor, 4 Liberal, 1 Green, 2 SA-BEST. Election results See also * Candidates of the 2022 South Australian state election * Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2022–2026 References {{reflist 2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ... 2022 elections in Australia 2020s in South Australia ... [...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] |
Michelle Lensink
Jacqueline Michelle Ann Lensink (born 20 February 1970) is an Australian politician representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the South Australian Legislative Council since 26 June 2003. Lensink served as the Minister for Human Services in the Marshall Ministry between March 2018 and March 2022. Background and early career Lensink was educated at Stirling East Primary School and Marryatville High School, before attending the University of South Australia, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy) in 1991. In 2003 she was awarded an MBA from the University of Adelaide. From 1991 to 1994, Lensink worked as a physiotherapist at Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park, before moving into the political arena. From 1994 to 1996 she worked as the policy researcher to the federal member for Sturt, who at the time was also parliamentary secretary to the Shadow Minister for Social Security (with responsibility for Chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Of South Australian Elections
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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] |
Candidates Of The 2022 South Australian State Election
This is a list of candidates of the 2022 South Australian state election. Retiring MPs Liberal * Stephan Knoll MHA (Electoral district of Schubert, Schubert) – announced 1 December 2020 * Peter Treloar MHA (Electoral district of Flinders, Flinders) – announced 1 December 2020 * Rob Lucas MLC – announced 20 March 2018 Labor * Jon Gee MHA (Electoral district of Taylor, Taylor) – announced 27 January 2021 Independent * John Dawkins (South Australian politician), John Dawkins MLC – elected as Liberal, announced 3 February 2020 House of Assembly Sitting Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 2018–2022, members of the South Australian House of Assembly are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk is used. Legislative Council Sitting Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2018–2022, members of the South Australian Legislative Council are shown i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Darley (politician)
John Andrew Darley (born 15 May 1937) is a former member of the South Australian Legislative Council and a former valuer-general. Political career (2007–present) Darley was appointed to the South Australian Legislative Council by a joint sitting of the Parliament of South Australia on 21 November 2007 to replace outgoing Independent No Pokies MLC Nick Xenophon who resigned to contest the Australian Senate at the 2007 federal election. Darley was the third of three candidates on the independent No Pokies upper house ticket at the 2006 state election. Darley was re-elected at the 2014 state election as the first candidate on the independent Nick Xenophon ticket. In 2015, Nick Xenophon Group (NXG) changed its name to Nick Xenophon Team (NXT). 2018 South Australian election Darley left the Nick Xenophon Team and became an independent on 17 August 2017 ahead of the 2018 state election. He said: "There are many things I could say as to why I have resigned. However, it is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Day
Robert John Day (born 5 July 1952) is an Australian former politician and businessman who was a Senator for South Australia from 1 July 2014 to 1 November 2016. He is a former federal chairman of the Family First Party. Before entering politics, he worked in the housing industry, owning several businesses, and at one stage serving as president of the Housing Industry Association. Day was the Liberal Party's candidate for the federal seat of Makin at the 2007 election, but resigned from the party after failing to gain preselection for the 2008 Mayo by-election. He subsequently joined the Family First Party and was their candidate for the by-election, later becoming their lead Senate candidate in South Australia at the 2010 election and 2013 election. On his fourth attempt to enter federal parliament in 2013, Day was elected to the Senate from a 3.8 per cent primary vote for Family First, to a term beginning on 1 July 2014. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Game
Sarah Game is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2022 state election, representing Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Before parliament Before her election in 2022, Game had been a veterinarian in a practice at South Brighton, a coastal suburb of Adelaide, since July 2021, using the name Sarah Wareing. She completed a Bachelor of Veterinary Science in 2006 at the University of Sydney in 2006 and lived in the United Kingdom for the next ten years, working as a biology teacher. She was One Nation's first member of the South Australian parliament. She described herself as a “hard-working single mum of three children”. Game from 2006 to 2016, lived in the UK where she worked in a teaching capacity. Personal life and views Game grew up in a "separated family" in Sydney. At the time of her election in 2022, she had three children aged 7, 6 and 4, and was raising them as a single parent. Game does not support banning ... [...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] |
Laura Curran (Australian Politician)
Laura Henderson (née Curran) is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal member of the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2022 state election. Henderson grew up in Saudi Arabia before moving to Adelaide for study. She was president of the Liberal Women's Council and a staffer to Senator Alex Antic, and is associated with the religious rightwing conservative faction of the Liberal Party. Prior to being elected to the Legislative Council in 2022, Henderson had been the Liberal candidate for the state lower house seat of Reynell in 2018 and the federal seat of Kingston in 2019. She was studying the final year for a Bachelor of Laws at University of South Australia The University of South Australia (UniSA) is a public research university in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network of universities, and is the largest university in South Australi ... during the 2018 election campaign. Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Centofanti
Nicola Jane Centofanti (born 1982) is an Australian politician. Since April 2022, she has been the Leader of the Opposition in the South Australian Legislative Council, Shadow Minister for Regional South Australia, Shadow Minister for Primary Industries, and Shadow Minister for Water Resources & the River Murray. Centofanti was appointed to a casual vacancy in the South Australian Legislative Council representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia on 7 April 2020. Prior to joining the parliament, Centofanti was a rural veterinarian in South Australia's Riverland region, and vice-president of the state division of the Liberal Party. Background Centofanti grew up in Berri in South Australia's Riverland. She attended the local high school in Glossop, before being accepted into Veterinary Science at Murdoch University in Western Australia. After graduating with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science with first class honours in 2004, Centofanti returned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
