Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1997-2002
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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 1997 and 2002. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each state election, half of these members were elected at the 1993 state election with terms expiring in 2002, while the other half were elected at the 1997 state election with terms expiring in 2006.
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...

 
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...

/Ind./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...

 
2006 1995–2006
Trevor Crothers
Trevor Crothers
Trevor Crothers was a South Australian politician. Crothers entered the South Australian Legislative Council in 1987 to fill an Australian Labor Party vacancy, and then was re-elected as a Labor candidate in 1993...

 
Labor/Independent 2002 1987–2002
Legh Davis  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...

 
2002 1979–2002
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 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
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
Trevor Griffin  Liberal 2002 1978–2002
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 2002 1995–2011
Jamie Irwin  Liberal 2002 1985–2002
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 2002 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 2002 1993–2010
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
Carolyn Pickles  Labor 2002 1985–2002
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 2002 1993–2006
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 2002 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 2002 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
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....

 
Labor 2006 1986–2000
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...

 was elected as an Labor MLC, but resigned from the party in August 1998 to support the sale of ETSA
Electricity Trust of South Australia
The Electricity Trust of South Australia was the South Australian Government-owned monopoly vertically integrated electricity provider...

. He served as an independent until 25 March 1999, when he founded 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.
Trevor Crothers
Trevor Crothers
Trevor Crothers was a South Australian politician. Crothers entered the South Australian Legislative Council in 1987 to fill an Australian Labor Party vacancy, and then was re-elected as a Labor candidate in 1993...

 was elected as an Labor MLC, but resigned from the party in June 1999 to support the sale of ETSA
Electricity Trust of South Australia
The Electricity Trust of South Australia was the South Australian Government-owned monopoly vertically integrated electricity provider...

. He served out the remainder of his term as an independent.
Labor MLC 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....

 resigned on 1 September 2000. 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...

was appointed to the resulting casual vacancy on 4 October 2000.
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