Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1930–1933

This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1930 to 1933, as elected at the 1930 state election

South Australian state election, 1930

State elections were held in Australia on 5 April 1930. All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Federation government led by Premier of South Australia Richard L. Butler was defeated by the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Leader of...

Name	Party in 1930	Party in 1933	Electorate South Australian House of Assembly electoral districts Since 1970, the South Australian House of Assembly has consisted of 47 single-member electoral districts consisting of approximately the same number of enrolled voters...	Term of office
	Liberal Liberal Federation The Liberal Federation was a liberal conservative South Australian political party from 1922 to 1932. It stemmed from the Liberal Union's Henry Barwell. Richard Layton Butler was also premier during the party's time. It was a predecessor to the Liberal and Country League....	LCL Liberal and Country League The Liberal and Country League was a major political party in South Australia throughout its forty year existence. Thirty-four years were spent in government, in part due to the electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, introduced after coming to power.Created on 9 June 1932 as the...	Sturt	1921–1938
	Labor	PLP	North Adelaide	1921–1933
	Labor	PLP	West Torrens Electoral district of West Torrens West Torrens is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the City of West Torrens because of its location on the River Torrens, it is a 26.7 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's western suburbs...	1918–1938
	Liberal	LCL	Wooroora	1915–1918, 1921–1938
Hon	Labor	PLP	Newcastle	1915–1917, 1918–1933
	Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	LCL	Wooroora	1927–1934
	N/A (Lang Labor)	Labor	Adelaide Electoral district of Adelaide Adelaide is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly which includes Adelaide's central business district and suburbs in the inner north and inner north east...	1931–1933
	Labor	PLP	Murray	1924–1933
	Labor	PLP	Barossa	1924–1933
	Single Tax League Single Tax League The Single Tax League was an Australian political party that flourished throughout the 1920s and 30s.Based upon the ideas of Henry George, who argued that all taxes should be abolished, save for a single tax on unimproved land values, the Single Tax League was founded shortly after World War I, and...	Single Tax League	Flinders	1930–1941
	Labor	PLP	Burra Burra	1930–1933
	Labor	Lang Labor Lang Labor Lang Labor was the name commonly used to describe three successive break-away sections of the Australian Labor Party, all led by the New South Wales Labor leader Jack Lang premier of NSW .-Initial opposition to Lang's leadership:...	Sturt	1930–1938, 1944–1947
	Labor	Labor	Sturt	1930–1933
Hon	Labor	PLP	Adelaide Electoral district of Adelaide Adelaide is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly which includes Adelaide's central business district and suburbs in the inner north and inner north east...	1900–1905, 1906–1933
	Country	LCL	Wooroora	1930–1938
	Labor	N/A	Adelaide	1917–1931
	Labor	PLP	Barossa	1930–1933
	Labor	Labor	Port Pirie	1918–1936
	Labor	PLP	Burra Burra	1930–1933
	Labor	Labor	Adelaide	1926–1933
	Liberal	LCL	Yorke Peninsula	1926–1933
	Labor	PLP	Newcastle	1918–1933
	Liberal	LCL	Alexandra Electoral district of Alexandra Alexandra was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1902 to 1992. The district included the Fleurieu Peninsula, to the south of Adelaide.Alexandra was renamed Finniss at the 1993 state election....	1906–1915, 1923–1938
	Labor	PLP	Port Pirie	1915–1917, 1918–1933
	Labor	PLP	Barossa	1924–1927, 1930–1933
	Liberal	LCL	Alexandra	1912–1915, 1920–1938, 1941–1948
	Labor	PLP	Murray	1930–1933
	Labor	Labor	Port Adelaide Electoral district of Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after Port Adelaide because of its geographical location, it is a 113.4 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's Lefevre Peninsula and stretches east to cove some of Adelaide's northern...	1927–1933
	Labor	Labor	East Torrens	1930–1933
	Liberal	LCL	Alexandra	1913–1933
	Liberal	LCL	Stanley	1926–1948
	Labor	PLP	East Torrens	1930–1933
	Labor	PLP	Burra Burra	1924–1927, 1930–1933, 1941–1944
	Labor	PLP	West Torrens	1918–1950
	Liberal	LCL	Albert	1921–1959
	Liberal	LCL	Albert	1921–1933
	LCL	Liberal	Flinders	1910–1933
	Liberal	LCL	Stanley	1915–1956
	Labor	Labor	East Torrens	1930–1933, 1938–1941, 1944–1947
	Liberal	LCL	Yorke Peninsula	1930–1938, 1947–1965
	Labor	PLP	Wallaroo	1918–1938
	Liberal	LCL	Victoria	1918–1924, 1932–1938, 1941–1945
	Liberal	N/A	Victoria	1915–1932
	Labor	PLP	Wallaroo	1918–1949
	Labor	PLP	Victoria	1924–1933
	Labor	PLP	Murray	1924–1927, 1930–1933
	Labor	Labor	Port Adelaide	1930–1946
	Labor	Labor	North Adelaide	1930–1933

¹ Adelaide MHA Bert Edwards

Bert Edwards (politician)

Albert Augustine "Bert" Edwards was an Australian politician. Before entering politics he held various jobs as a stall keeper, marine store dealer and hotel keeper; he was also prominent on Adelaide City Council...

had his seat vacated for absence without leave on 23 June 1931. Lang Plan Campaign Committee candidate Martin Collaton won the resulting by-election on 25 July. He sat in parliament as a member of the new Lang Labor Party.

² The Labor Party split in August 1931 over the Cabinet's support for the Premiers' Plan

Premiers' Plan

The Premiers' Plan was a deflationary economic policy agreed by a meeting of the State Premiers of Australia in June 1931 to combat the Great Depression.-Background:...

. The state conference of the party expelled the 21 MHAs who had supported it in parliament: Lionel Hill

Lionel Hill

Lionel Laughton Hill was the thirtieth Premier of South Australia.Born in Adelaide, South Australia but raised on a farm near Maitland, Hill left school aged 12 to work on the South Australian government railways, where he first became involved in the labour movement...

, William Denny, Robert Richards, John McInnes, Sydney McHugh

Sydney McHugh

Sydney McHugh was an Australian politician. Born in Quorn, South Australia, he was educated at state schools before becoming a farmer and grazier. He served in the military from 1914 to 1918, during World War I. In 1924, he was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the Labor member...

, Eric Shepherd

Eric Shepherd

Eric John Shepherd was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Victoria in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1924 to 1933. From 1930 to 1933 he was Speaker of the House....

, Frank Staniford, Frederick Birrell, Alfred Blackwell, Thomas Butterfield

Thomas Butterfield

Thomas Butterfield was an Australian politician and member of the South Australian Parliament.In 1910/11 Thomas was a councillor for the Tumby Bay ward in the Tumby Bay Council and was made a Justice of the Peace...

, Clement Collins, Jack Critchley, Even George

Even George

Even Ernest George was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Burra Burra in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1930 to 1933....

, William Harvey, Leonard Hopkins, Robert Hunter, Beasley Kearney, Arthur McArthur

Arthur McArthur (politician)

Arthur McArthur was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for East Torrens in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1930 to 1933....

, John Pedler, Albert Thompson

Albert Thompson (Australian politician)

Albert Victor Thompson was a member of the Australian House of Representatives and the South Australian House of Assembly....

, and Walter Warne. They appealed the decision, but by November most had accepted their expulsion and formed a separate party, the Parliamentary Labor Party; the remnants of the caucus continued to sit as official Labor.

³ Adelaide MHA Bob Dale

Bob Dale

Robert James "Bob" Dale born in Irlam, Greater Manchester, was a former professional footballer who played as a wing half. He played for Altrincham in non-league football, and played league football for Bury and Colchester United before retired through ill health.-External links:**...

was also expelled from the Labor Party in August 1931 for supporting the rival Lang Plan of New South Wales Premier Jack Lang

Jack Lang (Australian politician)

John Thomas Lang , usually referred to as J.T. Lang during his career, and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales for two terms...

. He subsequently sat as a member of the nascent Lang Labor Party.

⁴ Victoria MHA Peter Reidy died on 17 January 1932. Liberal candidate Vernon Petherick won the resulting by-election on 5 March.

⁵ The Lang Labor Party split in April 1932, with MHA Martin Collaton and a number of senior officials forming the Lang Australian Labor Party. The party merged into the official Labor Party in October.

⁶ The Liberal Federation

Liberal Federation

The Liberal Federation was a liberal conservative South Australian political party from 1922 to 1932. It stemmed from the Liberal Union's Henry Barwell. Richard Layton Butler was also premier during the party's time. It was a predecessor to the Liberal and Country League....

merged with the SA branch of the Country Party

National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

to form the Liberal and Country League

Liberal and Country League

The Liberal and Country League was a major political party in South Australia throughout its forty year existence. Thirty-four years were spent in government, in part due to the electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, introduced after coming to power.Created on 9 June 1932 as the...

on 9 June 1932.

⁷ Two expelled MHAs, Albert Thompson

Albert Thompson (Australian politician)

Albert Victor Thompson was a member of the Australian House of Representatives and the South Australian House of Assembly....

and Beasley Kearney, were reinstated to the official Labor Party in June 1932 after an appeal to the party's federal executive. A third MHA, Walter Warne, was also readmitted by the time of the 1933 election.

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