John Anthony William Gardner is an Australian politician representing the seat of Morialta in the

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for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2010 election. Gardner served as the Minister for Education in the Marshall Ministry between March 2018 and March 2022.

Political career

The new seat of Morialta to replace Coles was won by Liberal incumbent

Joan Hall Joan Lynette Hall ( née Bullock) (born 22 December 1946) is a former member of the South Australian House of Assembly, serving in the electoral district of Coles from 1993 to 2002 and the renamed electoral district of Morialta from 2002 to ...

on a

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vote of 54.1 percent at the 2002 election. Labor's Lindsay Simmons defeated Hall at the 2006 election with 57.9 percent of the two-party vote, an 11.2-point post-redistribution swing. Gardner defeated Simmons at the 2010 election, receiving 54.1 percent of the two-party vote, an 11.1-point post-redistribution swing. He increased his two-party vote to 60 percent at the 2014 election. Gardner had previously been a senior staffer for Christopher Pyne, Liberal MP for the federal seat of Sturt. Gardner lives in his childhood suburb of

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within the electorate of Morialta. In January 2016 Gardner was appointed Shadow Minister for Education, Multicultural affairs and Arts. After Deputy Liberal Leader

Dan van Holst Pellekaan Daniel Cornelius van Holst Pellekaan is a former Australian politician, representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Stuart for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2010 state election until he l ...

lost his seat at the

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 House of Assembly (the lower house, whose members were elected at the 2018 election), and half t ...

, Gardener was elected Deputy Leader in his place, and hence Deputy Leader of the Opposition.

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