Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1982-1985

This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council
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...

between 1982 and 1985. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each state election, half of these members were elected at the 1979 state election

South Australian state election, 1979

State elections were held in Australia on 15 September 1979. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Premier of South Australia Des Corcoran was defeated by the Liberal Party of Australia led by Leader of the...

with terms expiring in 1985, while the other half were elected at the 1982 state election

South Australian state election, 1982

State elections were held in Australia on November 6, 1982. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Premier of South Australia David Tonkin was defeated by the Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition...

with terms expiring in 1989.

Name	Party	Term expires	Term of office
Frank Blevins	Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...	1989	1975–1985
Gordon Bruce	Labor	1985	1979–1993
John Burnett	Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...	1985	1973–1993
Martin Cameron Martin Cameron Martin Bruce Cameron , Australian politician, was a member of the Australian Senate and the South Australian Legislative Council....	Liberal	1989	1971–1990
Brian Chatterton Brian Chatterton Brian Alfred Chatterton is a former Australian politician.Chatterton was elected as a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council in 1973. In 1975 he was appointed Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forests, serving until Labor's defeat in 1979. In 1982, he resumed his old...	Labor	1985	1973–1987
Dr John Cornwall John Cornwall (South Australian politician) John Robert Cornwall was a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council for 14 years, from 1975 to 1988. He was a senior member of the front bench for most of his political career....	Labor	1989	1975–1989
Cecil Creedon	Labor	1985	1973–1985
Legh Davis	Liberal	1985	1979–2002
Ren DeGaris	Liberal	1985	1962–1985
Peter Dunn	Liberal	1989	1982–1997
Mario Feleppa	Labor	1989	1982–1995
Ian Gilfillan Ian Gilfillan Ian Gilfillan is a former Australian politician. He was educated in Adelaide and was based on Kangaroo Island. He contested the 1974 federal election as a member of the Australia Party, but joined the Australian Democrats in 1977. In 1982, he was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council...	Democrat Australian Democrats The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New LM, after principals of those minor parties secured the commitment of former Liberal minister Don Chipp, as a high profile leader...	1989	1982–1993, 1997–2006
Trevor Griffin	Liberal	1985	1978–2002
Murray Hill	Liberal	1989	1965–1988
Diana Laidlaw Diana Laidlaw Diana Laidlaw was a South Australian Liberal politician, an elected member of the Legislative Council and held several ministerial posts.- Biography :...	Liberal	1989	1982–2003
Anne Levy Anne Levy Judith Anne Winstanley Levy AO is a former Australian politician. She was a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1975 to 1997....	Labor	1989	1975–1997
Rob Lucas Rob Lucas Robert Ivan "Rob" Lucas is an Australian politician and a Liberal Party of Australia Member of the Opposition in the South Australian Legislative Council, and was re-elected in the 2006 election....	Liberal	1989	1982–present
Lance Milne Lance Milne Kenneth Lance Milne was an Australian Democrats member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1979 to 1985.-External links:*...	Democrat	1985	1979–1985
Robert Ritson	Liberal	1985	1979–1993
Chris Sumner Chris Sumner Christopher John "Chris" Sumner AM is a former Australian politician.Sumner, who holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Law and was a barrister and solicitor before entering politics, was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council for the Australian Labor Party in 1975...	Labor	1989	1975–1994
Arthur Whyte	Liberal	1985	1966–1985
Barbara Wiese	Labor	1985	1979–1995

Labor MLC Frank Blevins resigned on 15 November 1985 in order to contest the Legislative Assembly seat of Giles

Electoral district of Giles

Giles is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. The electorate, named after explorer Ernest Giles, is the largest in South Australia, covering a 500,738.0km² swathe of outback South Australia...

at the 1985 state election

South Australian state election, 1985

State elections were held in Australia on December 7, 1985. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Premier of South Australia John Bannon defeated the Liberal Party of Australia led by Leader of the Opposition John...

. Due to the proximity of the election, the parliament expired before the casual vacancy could be filled, and George Weatherill

George Weatherill (politician)

George Weatherill is a former Australian politician, representing the Australian Labor Party in the South Australian Legislative Council from 1986 to 2000....

was duly appointed to serve out the remaining four years of Blevins' term by the new parliament in 1986.

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