Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2006-2010
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This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council
between 2006 and 2010, spanning the 50th (elected in 2002) and 51st (elected in 2006) 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 2002 state election with terms expiring in 2010, while the other half were elected at the 2006 state election with terms expiring in 2014.
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 2006 and 2010, spanning the 50th (elected in 2002) and 51st (elected in 2006) 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 2002 state election with terms expiring in 2010, while the other half were elected at the 2006 state election with terms expiring in 2014.
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... |
2010 | 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 |
Andrew Evans | Family First | 2010 | 2002–2008 |
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... |
2010 | 2006–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 | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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... |
2010 | 1993–2008 |
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 | 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 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... |
2014 | 2006–present |
David Ridgway | Liberal | 2010 | 2002–present |
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 | 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 | 2010 | 2002–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 | 2010 | 2006–present |
David Winderlich David Winderlich David Winderlich , is an Australian teacher, public servant and politician who in 2009 was appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the South Australian Legislative Council following the November 2008 resignation of Australian Democrats member Sandra Kanck... |
Democrats/Independent | 2010 | 2009–2010 |
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 |
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 | 2014 | 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 | 2014 | 1997–present |
- Labor MLC Terry RobertsTerry RobertsThe 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. Labor candidate Bernard FinniganBernard FinniganBernard 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 for the remaining four years of Redford's term on 2 May 2006. - Liberal MLC Angus RedfordAngus RedfordAngus 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 from the Legislative Council in March 2006 in an unsuccessful attempt to shift to the House of AssemblySouth Australian House of AssemblyThe 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 :...
. Liberal candidate Stephen WadeStephen WadeStephen 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 for the remaining four years of Redford's term on 2 May 2006. - Independent MLC Nick XenophonNick XenophonNicholas "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....
resigned on 15 October 2007 in order to run for the Australian SenateAustralian SenateThe Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...
at the 2007 federal election. Xenophon's second running mate, John DarleyJohn 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...
, was appointed to the casual vacancy on 21 November 2007. - Family First MLC Andrew Evans resigned on 3 July 2008. Robert BrokenshireRobert BrokenshireRobert "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...
, a former Liberal MHA, was appointed as Evans' replacement on 24 July 2008. - Democrats MLC Sandra KanckSandra KanckSandra 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...
resigned on 7 November 2008. David WinderlichDavid WinderlichDavid Winderlich , is an Australian teacher, public servant and politician who in 2009 was appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the South Australian Legislative Council following the November 2008 resignation of Australian Democrats member Sandra Kanck...
was appointed as Kanck's replacement on 17 February 2009. - Democrats MLC David WinderlichDavid WinderlichDavid Winderlich , is an Australian teacher, public servant and politician who in 2009 was appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the South Australian Legislative Council following the November 2008 resignation of Australian Democrats member Sandra Kanck...
resigned from the party on 7 October 2009.