Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly
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The Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly is the presiding officer of the South Australian House of Assembly
, the lower house of the Parliament of South Australia
. The other presiding officer is the President of the South Australian Legislative Council
.
The current Speaker
is Lyn Breuer
, who was elected after the 2010 state election, following victory for the incumbent Rann
Labor
government over the Redmond
Liberal
opposition.
South Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.- Overview :...
, the lower house of the Parliament of South Australia
Parliament of South Australia
The Parliament of South Australia is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia. It consists of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly. It follows a Westminster system of parliamentary government....
. The other presiding officer is the President of the South Australian Legislative Council
President of the South Australian Legislative Council
The President of the South Australian Legislative Council is the presiding officer of the South Australian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Parliament of South Australia...
.
The current Speaker
Speaker (politics)
The term speaker is a title often given to the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the...
is Lyn Breuer
Lyn Breuer
Lynette Ruth "Lyn" Breuer , Australian politician, represents the electoral district of Giles in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Australian Labor Party...
, who was elected after the 2010 state election, following victory for the incumbent Rann
Mike Rann
Michael David Rann MHA, CNZM , Australian politician, served as the 44th Premier of South Australia. He led the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party to minority government at the 2002 election, before attaining a landslide win at the 2006 election...
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...
government over the Redmond
Isobel Redmond
Isobel Mary Redmond is the current parliamentary leader of the South Australian division of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Australia since 2009. The Redmond Liberals won 18 of 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly at the 2010...
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...
opposition.
List of Speakers
| Member | Party | Term in Office |
| George Strickland Kingston George Strickland Kingston Sir George Strickland Kingston arrived in South Australia on the Cygnet in 1836. He was the Deputy Surveyor to William Light, engaged to survey the new colony of South Australia.-Early life:... |
22 April 1857 – 22 March 1860 | |
| George Charles Hawker George Charles Hawker George Charles Hawker was an Australian settler and South Australian politician.-Early life:Hawker was born in London, the second son of Admiral Edward Hawker and his first wife Joanna Naomi, née Poore. He was educated partly on the continent, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1836 George... |
27 April 1860 – 28 February 1865 | |
| George Strickland Kingston George Strickland Kingston Sir George Strickland Kingston arrived in South Australia on the Cygnet in 1836. He was the Deputy Surveyor to William Light, engaged to survey the new colony of South Australia.-Early life:... |
31 March 1865 – 26 November 1880 | |
| Robert Dalrymple Ross Robert Dalrymple Ross Sir Robert Dalrymple Ross was an army officer, politician and businessman.He was born at St Vincent in the West Indies, son of John Pemberton Ross, Speaker of the House of Assembly at St Vincent, and his wife, the only daughter of Dr Alexander Anderson... |
2 June 1881 – 27 December 1887 | |
| John Cox Bray John Cox Bray Sir John Cox Bray KCMG JP was a prominent South Australian politician and the first native-born Premier of South Australia .-Early life:... |
31 May 1888 – 5 June 1890 | |
| Jenkin Coles Jenkin Coles Sir Jenkin Coles KCMG was an Australian politician, a speaker in South Australia.Coles was the son of Jenkin and Caroline Coles, came of an old north of Ireland family, and was born at Liverpool, New South Wales... |
5 June 1890 – 17 November 1911 | |
| Harry Jackson | 17 November 1911 – 18 March 1912 | |
| Laurence O'Loughlin | Liberal Union Liberal Union (Australia) The Liberal Union was a political party resulting from a merger between the Liberal and Democratic Union and the conservatives in South Australia. It lasted from 1910 to 1922 when it became the Liberal Federation.... |
19 March 1912 – 7 July 1915 |
| Frederick Coneybeer | Australian Labor Party | 8 July 1915 – 9 April 1921 |
| Richard Butler Richard Butler (Australian politician) Sir Richard Butler was an Australian politician and Premier of South Australia.-Early life:Butler was born at Stadhampton, near Oxford, England, elder son of Richard Butler, pastoralist, and his wife Mary Eliza, née Sadler. The family emigrated to South Australia, arriving in Adelaide on 8 March... |
Liberal Union/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.... |
21 July 1921 – 5 April 1924 |
| John McInnes | Australian Labor Party | 24 July 1924 – 27 August 1926 |
| Frederick Birrell | Australian Labor Party | 31 August 1926 – 16 May 1927 |
| George Laffer George Laffer George Richards Laffer was an Australian politician. He was member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1913 until 1933, representing the electorate of Alexandra for the Liberal Union, and its successors the Liberal Federation and Liberal and Country League... |
Liberal Federation | 17 May 1927 – 26 May 1930 |
| 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.... |
Australian Labor Party 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... |
27 May 1930 – 7 April 1933 |
| Robert Nicholls | 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... |
6 July 1933 – 2 March 1956 |
| Berthold Teusner | Liberal and Country League | 9 May 1956 – 11 April 1962 |
| Tom Stott Tom Stott Tom Cleave Stott CBE spent 37 years as an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly, serving as Speaker of the House from 1962 to 1965 and 1968 to 1970.... |
Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... |
12 April 1962 – 13 May 1965 |
| Lindsay Riches | Australian Labor Party | 13 May 1965 – 15 April 1968 |
| Tom Stott Tom Stott Tom Cleave Stott CBE spent 37 years as an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly, serving as Speaker of the House from 1962 to 1965 and 1968 to 1970.... |
Independent | 16 April 1968 – 29 May 1970 |
| Reginald Hurst | Australian Labor Party | 14 July 1970 – 31 March 1973 |
| John Ryan | Australian Labor Party | 19 June 1973 – 11 July 1975 |
| Ted Connelly Ted Connelly Edward "Ted" Connelly is a former Australian politician. He was an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1975 and 1977, representing the electorate of Pirie.... |
Australian Labor Party | 5 August 1975 – 16 September 1977 |
| Gil Langley Gil Langley Gilbert Roche Andrews "Gil" Langley was an Australian Test cricketer, champion Australian rules footballer and member of parliament, serving as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly.... |
Australian Labor Party | 6 October 1977 – 11 October 1979 |
| Bruce Eastick Bruce Eastick Bruce Charles Eastick is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal and Country League and Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1970 to 1993, representing the electorate of Light.... |
Liberal Party of Australia 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... |
11 October 1979 – 7 December 1982 |
| Terence Michael McRae | Australian Labor Party | 8 December 1982 – 11 February 1986 |
| John Trainer John Trainer John Patrick Trainer is a former Australian politician. He served as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1986 to 1990.... |
Australian Labor Party | 11 February 1986 – 8 February 1990 |
| Norm Peterson | Independent Labor | 8 February 1990 – 10 December 1993 |
| Graham Gunn Graham Gunn Graham McDonald Gunn, AM , Australian politician, was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly. He represented the electoral district of Stuart and was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia... |
Liberal Party of Australia | 11 February 1994 – 2 December 1997 |
| John Oswald John Oswald (politician) John Kenneth Gibson Oswald is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1979 to 2002, representing the safe Liberal electorate of Morphett.... |
Liberal Party of Australia | 2 December 1997 – 8 February 2002 |
| Peter Lewis Peter Lewis (politician) Ivan Peter Lewis is an Australian politician. Lewis was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1979 and 2006 in the electorates of Hammond, Ridley, Murray-Mallee and Mallee. Between 1979 and 2000 he was in the House as a Liberal member. From 2000 until 2006 he served as an... |
Independent | 5 March 2002 – 4 April 2005 |
| Bob Such Bob Such Robert Bruce "Bob" Such , Australian politician, is the member for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly, as an independent since 2000, and as member of the Liberal Party member from the 1989 election to 2000.... |
Independent | 4 April 2005 – 26 March 2006 |
| Jack Snelling Jack Snelling John James "Jack" Snelling is an Australian politician who has been the sitting Labor member for the electoral district of Playford in the South Australian House of Assembly since the 1997 election.... |
Australian Labor Party | 27 April 2006 – 25 March 2010 |
| Lyn Breuer Lyn Breuer Lynette Ruth "Lyn" Breuer , Australian politician, represents the electoral district of Giles in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Australian Labor Party... |
Australian Labor Party | 6 May 2010 – current |
External links
- Speakers of the House of Assembly. Parliament of South Australia.