Members Of The South Australian Legislative Council, 1997–2002
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This is a list of members of the
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 Parli ...
between 1997 and 2002. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each state election, half of these members were elected at the 1993 state election with terms expiring in 2002, while the other half were elected at the 1997 state election with terms expiring in 2006. :
Terry Cameron Terry Gordon Cameron (born 19 October 1946) is a former South Australian politician. Cameron entered the South Australian Legislative Council in 1994 to fill a Labor Party vacancy, and then was re-elected as a Labor candidate in 1997. However h ...
was elected as a Labor MLC, but resigned from the party in August 1998 to support the sale of
ETSA The Electricity Trust of South Australia (ETSA) was the South Australian Government-owned monopoly vertically integrated electricity provider from 1946 until its privatisation in 1999. Precursors Early days (1882–1900) Charles Todd, an e ...
. He served as an independent until 25 March 1999, when he founded the
SA First SA First was a South Australian political party formed in 1999 by dissident Labor Member of Parliament Terry Cameron. The party contested the 2002 state election but failed to elect any candidates to the Parliament of South Australia. Ideology ...
party. :
Trevor Crothers Trevor Crothers (20 May 1938 – 9 July 2002) was a South Australian politician. Crothers entered the South Australian Legislative Council in 1987 to fill a Labor Party vacancy, and then was re-elected as a Labor candidate in 1993. However h ...
was elected as a Labor MLC, but resigned from the party in June 1999 to support the sale of
ETSA The Electricity Trust of South Australia (ETSA) was the South Australian Government-owned monopoly vertically integrated electricity provider from 1946 until its privatisation in 1999. Precursors Early days (1882–1900) Charles Todd, an e ...
. He served out the remainder of his term as an independent. : Labor MLC George Weatherill resigned on 1 September 2000.
Bob Sneath Robert Kenneth "Bob" Sneath (born 24 June 1949) is a former Australian politician, and was a Labor Party member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 2000 to 2012. Sneath originally worked as a shearer and an organiser with the AWU. ...
was appointed to the resulting casual vacancy on 4 October 2000.


References

* "Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1837–2007", Parliament of South Australia, 2007. * "History of South Australian Elections, 1857–2006", Dean Jaensch, 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1997-2002 Members of South Australian parliaments by term 21st-century Australian politicians 20th-century Australian politicians