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 2002 and 2006. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each state election, half of these members were elected at the 1997 state election with terms expiring in 2006, while the other half were elected at the 2002 state election with terms expiring in 2010.

Name	Party	Term expires	Term of office
Terry Cameron Terry Cameron Terry Gordon Cameron is a former South Australian politician.Cameron entered the South Australian Legislative Council in 1994 to fill an Australian Labor Party vacancy, and then was re-elected as a Labor candidate in 1997. However he resigned from the party in order to support the Olsen Liberal...	SA First SA First SA First is a now-defunct South Australian political party formed in 1999 by dissident Labor Member of Parliament Terry Cameron. The Party contested the 2002 South Australian legislative election, but failed to have any candidates elected to the Parliament of South Australia.-Ideology and policy:SA... /Independent	2006	1995–2006
John Dawkins John Dawkins (South Australian politician) John Samuel Letts Dawkins is an Australian politician and the Liberal Party of Australia Opposition Whip in the South Australian Legislative Council, and was re-elected for a second eight-year term in the 2006 election....	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...	2006	1997–present
Mike Elliott Mike Elliott (politician) Michael John Elliott is a former Australian politician. He graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Science, and later achieved a Graduate Diploma of Teaching. In 1985 he was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council as a Democrat. He resigned in 1993 but was...	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...	2006	1985–1993, 1994–2002
Andrew Evans Andrew Evans Andrew Evans OAM is a Pentecostal Christian pastor in the Assemblies of God and a politician in the South Australian Legislative Council. Evans is most notable for pastoring Paradise Community Church for 30 years and founding the Family First Party.-History:Andrew L. Evans was born to missionary...	Family First Family First Party The Family First Party is a socially conservative minor political party in Australia. It has two members in the South Australian Legislative Council...	2010	2002–2008
Gail Gago Gail Gago Gail Elizabeth Gago is an Australian politician, and an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian Legislative Council since being elected in 2002...	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...	2010	2002–present
John Gazzola John Gazzola John Mario Gazzola is an Australian politician, and an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian Legislative Council since being appointed in 2002.Previous to entering politics, Gazzola was a union official.-External links:*...	Labor	2010	2002–present
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	2006	1982–1993, 1997–2006
Paul Holloway Paul Holloway Paul Holloway is an Australian politician who represented the Australian Labor Party in the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Mitchell from 1989 to 1993, and in the South Australian Legislative Council from 1995 to 2011....	Labor	2010	1995–2011
Sandra Kanck Sandra Kanck Sandra Myrtho Kanck is a South Australian politician. She was an Australian Democrats member of the South Australian Legislative Council 1993-2009, and at the time of the announcement of her resignation in November 2008, her party's sole remaining member of any Australian parliament...	Democrat	2010	1993–2008
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	2006	1982–2003
Robert Lawson Robert Lawson (Australian politician) Robert David Lawson QC, RFD was an Australian politician from 1993 to 2010 as a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian Legislative Council.Prior to entering politics, Lawson was appointed Queen's Counsel....	Liberal	2010	1993–2010
Michelle Lensink Michelle Lensink Jacqueline Michelle Ann Lensink is an Australian politician and, since 26 June 2003, a Liberal Party of Australia member in the South Australian Legislative Council.- Education :...	Liberal	2006	2003–present
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	2006	1982–present
Angus Redford Angus Redford Angus John Redford is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian Legislative Council between 1993 and 2006....	Liberal	2010	1993–2006
Kate Reynolds Kate Reynolds Kathryn Joy "Kate" Reynolds was an Australian politician. She was an Australian Democrats member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 2003 to 2006....	Democrat	2006	2003–2006
David Ridgway	Liberal	2010	2002–present
Ron Roberts	Labor	2006	1989–2006
Terry Roberts Terry Roberts The Hon Terry Roberts was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council between 1985 and 2006. At the time of his death, he was a Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation and Correctional Services in the South Australian government.Roberts was born and educated in Millicent, South...	Labor	2010	1984–2006
Caroline Schaefer Caroline Schaefer Caroline Veronica Schaefer is an Australian politician, and a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1993 to 2010....	Liberal	2010	1993–2010
Bob Sneath Bob Sneath Robert Kenneth "Bob" Sneath is an Australian politician, and an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian Legislative Council since 2002.Sneath originally worked as a shearer and an organiser with the AWU...	Labor	2006	2000–present
Julian Stefani	Liberal	2006	1988–2006
Terry Stephens Terry Stephens Terence John "Terry" Stephens is an Australian politician, and a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian Legislative Council since being elected in 2002....	Liberal	2010	2002–present
Nick Xenophon Nick Xenophon Nicholas "Nick" Xenophon is a South Australian barrister, anti-gambling campaigner and politician. He attended Prince Alfred College, and studied law at the University of Adelaide, attaining his Bachelor of Laws in 1981. Xenophon established and became principal of his own law firm, Xenophon & Co....	Independent No Pokies No Pokies No Pokies is an independent South Australian Legislative Council ticket that contested the 1997, 2002, and 2006 statewide legislative council elections...	2006	1997–2007
Carmel Zollo Carmel Zollo Carmelina "Carmel" Zollo is an Australian politician, and an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian Legislative Council since 1997. She was re-elected for a second term in the 2006 election....	Labor	2006	1997–present

Terry Cameron

Terry Cameron

Terry Gordon Cameron is a former South Australian politician.Cameron entered the South Australian Legislative Council in 1994 to fill an Australian Labor Party vacancy, and then was re-elected as a Labor candidate in 1997. However he resigned from the party in order to support the Olsen Liberal...

 had been elected as an Labor member, but had resigned from the party, initially sitting as an independent, and then founding the SA First

SA First

SA First is a now-defunct South Australian political party formed in 1999 by dissident Labor Member of Parliament Terry Cameron. The Party contested the 2002 South Australian legislative election, but failed to have any candidates elected to the Parliament of South Australia.-Ideology and policy:SA...

 party in 1999. He did not face re-election in 2002, but the party disbanded soon after the election, and Cameron subsequently returned to being an independent MLC.

Democrat MLC Mike Elliott

Mike Elliott

Mike Elliott is an entertainer: he has been an actor, stand-up comedian, television presenter and radio phone-in host.-Stand up comedy and recording:Elliott taught English at Hartlepool's Dyke House School...

 resigned on 10 December 2002. Kate Reynolds

Kate Reynolds

Kathryn Joy "Kate" Reynolds was an Australian politician. She was an Australian Democrats member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 2003 to 2006....

 was appointed to the resulting casual vacancy on 17 February 2003.

Liberal MLC 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 :...

 resigned on 6 June 2003. Michelle Lensink

Michelle Lensink

Jacqueline Michelle Ann Lensink is an Australian politician and, since 26 June 2003, a Liberal Party of Australia member in the South Australian Legislative Council.- Education :...

 was appointed to the resulting casual vacancy on 26 June 2003.

Labor MLC Terry Roberts

Terry Roberts

The Hon Terry Roberts was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council between 1985 and 2006. At the time of his death, he was a Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation and Correctional Services in the South Australian government.Roberts was born and educated in Millicent, South...

 died on 18 February 2006. Bernard Finnigan

Bernard Finnigan

Bernard Vincent Finnigan is an Australian politician. He has served in the South Australian Legislative Council for the Australian Labor Party since 2006.-Early life:...

 was appointed to the remaining four years of Roberts' term on 2 May 2006.

Liberal MLC Angus Redford

Angus Redford

Angus John Redford is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian Legislative Council between 1993 and 2006....

 resigned on 27 February 2006 to contest the marginal House of Assembly seat of Bright

Electoral district of Bright

Bright is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers southern coastal suburbs of Adelaide including Hove, Brighton, Seacliff, Seacliff Park, Marino, Hallett Cove, Somerton Park, South Brighton, North Brighton and Kingston Park....

 at the 2006 state election. Stephen Wade

Stephen Wade

Stephen Graham Wade is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian Legislative Council after an appointment in May 2006....

was appointed to the remaining four years of Redford's term on 2 May 2006.