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South Australian Legislative Assembly
The House of Assembly (also known as the lower house) is one of two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide. Overview The House of Assembly was created in 1857, when South Australia attained self-government. The development of an elected legislature — although only men could vote — marked a significant change from the prior system, where legislative power was in the hands of the Governor and the Legislative Council, which was appointed by the Governor. In 1895, the House of Assembly granted women the right to vote and stand for election to the legislature. South Australia was the second place in the world to do so after New Zealand in 1893, and the first to allow women to stand for election. (The first woman candidates for the South Australia Assembly ran in 1918 general election, in Adelaide and Sturt.) From 1857 to 1933, the House of Assembly was elected from multi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The South Australian House Of Assembly, 2022–2026
This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 2022 to 2026, as elected at the 2022 state election and subsequent by-elections. : On 31 May 2022, Bragg Liberal MP Vickie Chapman resigned. Liberal candidate Jack Batty won the resulting by-election on 2 July. : On 6 July 2023, MacKillop Liberal MP Nick McBride resigned from the Liberal Party and sits as an independent. : On 6 February 2024, Dunstan Liberal MP Steven Marshall resigned. The resulting by-election was held on 23 March 2024, and was won by Labor's Cressida O'Hanlon. : On 15 October 2024, Black Liberal MP David Speirs resigned. The resulting by-election was held on 16 November 2024, with Labor's Alex Dighton projected to win the seat. See also * Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2022–2026 Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Brock
Geoffrey Graeme Brock (born 1950) is an Australian politician. He is an Independent member in the South Australian House of Assembly, representing the seat of Stuart since the 2022 South Australian state election. Prior to this, he represented the seat of Frome from the 2009 Frome by-election until a redistribution leading up to the 2022 state election. Brock has previously served as the Minister for Local Government, Minister for Regional Roads and Minister for Veterans Affairs in the Malinauskas Labor cabinet from 2022 to 2024. Brock was previously the Minister for Regional Development and Minister for Local Government in the Weatherill Labor cabinet from 2014 until Labor's defeat at the 2018 election. Background Brock had worked in Port Pirie's lead smelter, which was eventually acquired by Nyrstar, since arriving in the town in 1976. He was first elected to the Port Pirie Regional Council (at that time a City Council) in 1989, and served on numerous community com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament House, Adelaide
Parliament House, on the corner of North Terrace and King William Road in the Adelaide city centre, is the seat of the Parliament of South Australia. It was built to replace the adjacent and overcrowded Parliament House, now referred to as "Old Parliament House". Due to financial constraints, the current Parliament House was constructed in stages over 65 years from 1874 to 1939. Guided public tours of the building are held on weekdays at 10am and 2pm, except when the Parliament is sitting. "Old" Parliament House The Parliament of South Australia began in 1857, when the colony of South Australia was granted self-government. Old Parliament House on North Terrace is situated to the west of the new Parliament House, and is associated with numerous and progressive legislative reforms in which South Australia led the way (such as the introduction of full adult male suffrage in 1856, and women's suffrage in 1894). The building, designed over many stages, incorporates the work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission
The South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission is an independent, non partisan commission responsible for the compulsory re-drawing of South Australian House of Assembly electoral districts after each South Australian election. The Commission was established in 1975 under an amendment to the South Australian Constitution to carry out periodic redistributions of the electoral boundaries of the State’s lower house, the House of Assembly in the Parliament of South Australia. Originally, these redistributions were to take place after five or more years had elapsed between two general elections held on the same boundaries. After a change to 4 year terms occurred in 1985, this was seen as insufficient and in 1991, following a referendum, this was changed so that redistributions take place following each general election. When making a redistribution, the Commission is required to ensure that the number of electors in each electoral district does not vary from the ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2026 South Australian State Election
The 2026 South Australian state election will be held on 21 March 2026 to elect members to the 56th Parliament of South Australia. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly, House of Assembly (the lower house, whose members were elected at the 2022 South Australian state election, 2022 election), and half the seats in the South Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council (the upper house, last filled at the 2018 South Australian state election, 2018 election) are up for re-election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Labor Malinauskas ministry, government, led by Premier of South Australia, Premier Peter Malinauskas, will attempt to win a second four-year term against the Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division), Liberal Opposition (Australia), opposition, led by party leader Vincent Tarzia. South Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting for single-member electorates in the lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 South Australian State Election
The 2022 South Australian state election was held on 19 March 2022 to elect members to the 55th Parliament of South Australia. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly, House of Assembly (the lower house, whose members were elected at the 2018 South Australian state election, 2018 election), and half the seats in the South Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council (the upper house, last filled at the 2014 South Australian state election, 2014 election) were up for re-election. The one-term incumbent Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division), Liberal Marshall ministry, government, led by Premier of South Australia, Premier Steven Marshall, was defeated in a landslide victory, landslide by the Opposition (Australia), opposition Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Labor Party, led by Leader of the Opposition (South Australia), Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas. Marshall conceded to Malinauskas about three hours after the polls cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1857 South Australian Colonial Election
Colonial elections were held in South Australia on 9 March 1857. All 36 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly, and all 18 seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. At the time of the election, Boyle Travers Finniss led a government which had been formed to administer the election, and to establish the first responsible government. Pre-party Premiers No parties or solid groupings would be formed until after the 1890 election, which resulted in frequent changes of the Premier of South Australia. If for any reason the incumbent Premier lost sufficient support through a successful motion of no confidence at any time on the floor of the house, he would tender his resignation to the Governor of South Australia, which would result in another member deemed to have the support of the House of Assembly being sworn in by the Governor as the next Premier. Informal groupings began and increased government stability occurred from the 1887 election. The United L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instant-runoff Voting
Instant-runoff voting (IRV; ranked-choice voting (RCV), preferential voting, alternative vote) is a single-winner ranked voting election system where Sequential loser method, one or more eliminations are used to simulate Runoff (election), runoff elections. When no candidate has a majority of the votes in the first round of counting, each following round eliminates the candidate with the fewest First-preference votes, first-preferences (among the remaining candidates) and transfers their votes if possible. This continues until one candidate accumulates a majority of the votes still in play. Instant-runoff voting falls under the plurality-based voting-rule family, in that under certain conditions the candidate with the least votes is eliminated, making use of secondary rankings as contingency votes. Thus it is related to the Runoff election, two-round runoff system and the exhaustive ballot. IRV could also be seen as a single-winner equivalent of Single transferable vote, sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of MacKillop
MacKillop is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was named in 1991 after Sister Mary MacKillop who served the local area, and later became the first Australian to be canonised as a Roman Catholic saint. MacKillop is a 25,313 km² rural electorate in the south-east of the state, stretching south and west from the mouth of the Murray River to the Victorian State border, but excluding the far-southern point of the state, (which includes Mount Gambier, South Australia, Mount Gambier). It contains the Kingston District Council, Naracoorte Lucindale Council, District Council of Robe, Tatiara District Council, Wattle Range Council, as well as parts of The Coorong District Council. The main population centres are Bordertown, South Australia, Bordertown, Keith, South Australia, Keith, Kingston SE, South Australia, Kingston SE, Meningie, South Australia, Meningie, Millicent, South Australia, Millicen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick McBride
Philip Nicholas McBride is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2018 state election, representing MacKillop. McBride was a member of the Liberal Party until 5 July 2023, when he announced that he was quitting the party to sit as an independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ... in the House of Assembly. He cited “dark forces” and "divisive factionalism" within the South Australia Liberal Party as the reason for his decision, generally considered to be a reference to the SA Liberal’s increasingly right-wing positions, and the dramatic increase of conservative Pentecostal party members. McBride is also a grazier and his family has owned Conmurra Station since the 1930s. He was president of the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Narungga
Narungga is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution of 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 South Australian state election, 2018 state election. It is named for the Narungga people, who are the traditional owners of the lands in most of the electorate. It is one of two state districts named after South Australia's indigenous people (the other being the electoral district of Kaurna). Description Narungga is essentially a reconfigured version of the former seat of electoral district of Goyder, Goyder, which itself was created in 1969 as a replacement for electoral district of Yorke Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula. At its creation, it drew 21,993 electors from Goyder and 2,325 from Electoral district of Frome, Frome. Of the remaining electors from Goyder, 999 were lost to Frome, 422 to Electoral district of Schubert, Schubert, and 1,619 to Electoral distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraser Ellis
Fraser John Ellis (born 17 August 1992) is an Australian politician. He was elected as a Liberal member of the South Australian House of Assembly at the 2018 state election, representing Narungga. On 18 February 2021, Ellis suspended his membership of the Liberal Party after being charged by the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC) with offences relating to travel allowances. Ellis, who qualified as a lawyer, worked as a journalist before his election. Accommodation allowance In June 2020, Ellis repaid $42,130 in allowances claimed for staying in Adelaide at the residence of a colleague. In February 2021, Ellis informed the House of Assembly that he had been charged with offences arising from an investigation by the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC) into his use of the Country Members' Accommodation Allowance, which permits regional MPs living more than 75 kilometres from Adelaide to claim up to $234 a night when they are in the city on offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
