Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2010–2014
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This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council
between 2010 and 2014, spanning the 51st (started 2006) and 52nd (starting 2010) Parliament of South Australia. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each state election, half of these members were elected at the 2006 state election with terms expiring in 2014, while the other half will be elected at the 2010 state election with terms expiring in 2018.
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 2010 and 2014, spanning the 51st (started 2006) and 52nd (starting 2010) Parliament of South Australia. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each state election, half of these members were elected at the 2006 state election with terms expiring in 2014, while the other half will be elected at the 2010 state election with terms expiring in 2018.
Name | Party | Term expires | Term of office |
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Ann Bressington Ann Bressington Ann Bressington is an Australian politician. She was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council at the 2006 South Australian election as Nick Xenophon's running mate on his independent No Pokies ticket... |
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... |
2014 | 2006–present |
Robert Brokenshire Robert Brokenshire Robert "Rob" Lawrence Brokenshire is a South Australian dairy farmer and Member of the 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd and current South Australian Parliament. Formerly a real estate broker, Brokenshire was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1993 and... |
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... |
2018 | 2008–present |
John Darley John Darley (Australian politician) John Andrew Darley , a former valuer-general, was appointed to the South Australian Legislative Council by a joint sitting of the Parliament of South Australia on 21 November 2007 to replace outgoing No Pokies MP Nick Xenophon. Darley was the third of three candidates on the independent No Pokies... |
Independent No Pokies | 2014 | 2007–present |
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... |
2014 | 1997–present |
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:... |
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... |
2018 | 2006–present |
Tammy Franks | Greens Greens South Australia Greens South Australia is a Green Party located in South Australia, a member of the federation of the Australian Greens party.The party has four members currently elected to parliament, Mark Parnell and Tammy Franks in the South Australian Legislative Council and Sarah Hanson-Young and Penny Wright... |
2018 | 2010–present |
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 | 2018 | 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 | 2018 | 2002–present |
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.... 1 |
Labor | 2011 | 1995–2011 |
Dennis Hood Dennis Hood Dennis Garry Edward Hood is an Australian politician. He is a member of the South Australian Legislative Council, and the South Australian leader of the Family First Party.-Early life and career:... |
Family First | 2014 | 2006–present |
Ian Hunter Ian Hunter (politician) Ian Keith Hunter is an Australian politician, representing the Australian Labor Party in the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2006 state election... |
Labor | 2014 | 2006–present |
Gerry Kandelaars Gerry Kandelaars Gerard Anthony Kandelaars is an Australian politician appointed to the South Australian Legislative Council as a Labor MLC on 13 September 2011.-Early life:... 1 |
Labor | 2018 | 2011–present |
Jing Lee Jing Lee Jing Shyuan Lee is an Australian politician elected to the South Australian Legislative Council as a Liberal Party candidate at the 2010 state election. She was formerly the president of the Asia Pacific Business Council for Women.-Early Life:... |
Liberal | 2018 | 2010–present |
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 | 2014 | 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 | 2014 | 1982–present |
Mark Parnell Mark Parnell Mark Parnell is an Australian politician and the first SA Greens representative in the South Australian Legislative Council, having won a seat in the 2006 state election. His term will expire in March 2014. Since his election, the Greens position in state political opinion polls has approximately... |
Greens | 2014 | 2006–present |
David Ridgway | Liberal | 2018 | 2002–present |
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 | 2014 | 2000–present |
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 | 2018 | 2002–present |
Kelly Vincent Kelly Vincent Kelly Leah Vincent is an Australian playwright, actress and politician elected to the eleventh and last seat for an 8-year term in the South Australian Legislative Council at the 2010 state election for the Dignity for Disability party.... |
Dignity for Disability | 2018 | 2010–present |
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.... |
Liberal | 2018 | 2006–present |
Russell Wortley Russell Wortley Russell Paul Wortley, Australian politician, has served as a Labor MLC in the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2006 state election. He will be up for re-election at the 2014 state election.... |
Labor | 2014 | 2006–present |
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 | 2014 | 1997–present |
- 1 Labor MLC Paul HollowayPaul HollowayPaul 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....
resigned on 15 August 2011. Gerry KandelaarsGerry KandelaarsGerard Anthony Kandelaars is an Australian politician appointed to the South Australian Legislative Council as a Labor MLC on 13 September 2011.-Early life:...
was appointed as his replacement on 13 September 2011.