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Richard Baker
Sir Richard Chaffey Baker KCMG (22 June 1842 – 18 March 1911) was an Australian politician. A barrister by trade, he embarked on a successful career in South Australian colonial politics, serving as state attorney-general and President of the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1842
Date of death:
- Mar 18, 1911 (age 68 years)
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Henry Barwell
Sir Henry Newman Barwell KCMG (26 February 1877 – 30 September 1959) was the 28th Premier of South Australia.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Barwell was educated at St Peter's College and Adelaide University, graduating in law. Admitted to the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1877
Date of death:
- Sep 30, 1959 (age 82 years)
Albert Badman
Albert Oliver Badman (18 December 1885 – 24 April 1977) was an Australian politician. Born in Yacka, South Australia, he was educated at state schools before becoming a wheat farmer and wheat breeder. He was a Methodist lay preacher and President of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1885
Date of death:
- Apr 24, 1977 (age 91 years)
Frederick Beerworth
Frederick Hubert Beerworth (6 May 1886 – 17 May 1968) was an Australian politician. Born in Quorn, South Australia, he received a primary education before becoming a farmer at Carrieton. He was a railway worker and engine driver before serving in...
Date of birth:
- May 6, 1886
Date of death:
- May 17, 1968 (age 82 years)
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Reg Bishop
Reginald Bishop AO (4 February 1913 – 3 July 1999) was an Australian politician. He was born in Adelaide and left school at fifteen and became a clerk in the South Australian Railways at the Islington Railway Workshops. He was an official of the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 4, 1913
Date of death:
- Jul 3, 1999 (age 86 years)
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James Cavanagh
James Luke Cavanagh (21 June 1913 - 19 August 1990) was an Australian politician and government minister.
Cavanagh was born in Paddington, South Australia and educated at the Dominican School in Adelaide. He left school at 14 to work as a plasterer....
Date of birth:
- Jun 21, 1913
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1990 (age 77 years)
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Harold Young
Sir Harold William Young KCMG (30 June 1923 - 21 November 2006) was an Australian Liberal Party politician who represented South Australia in the Senate from 1968 to 1983, acting as President of the Senate from 1981 to 1983.
Harold Young was born in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 30, 1923
Date of death:
- Nov 21, 2006 (age 83 years)
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Martin Cameron
Martin Bruce Cameron (born 1936), Australian politician, was a member of the Australian Senate and the South Australian Legislative Council.
In 1968 Cameron contested the safe Labor House of Assembly seat of Millicent for the Liberal and Country...
Date of birth:
- 1936 (age 74 years)
Donald Newton Cameron
Donald Newton Cameron (13 January 1915 – 5 June 1998), Australian politician, was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia, and was educated at Gawler. Like his brother Clyde Cameron, he became a shearer and an official of the Australian Workers Union...
Date of birth:
- Jan 13, 1915
Date of death:
- Jun 5, 1998 (age 83 years)
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Janine Haines
Janine Haines, AM (8 May 1945 – 20 November 2004), Australian politician, was the first female federal parliamentary leader of an Australian political party. An Australian Democrat, she was also the first member of that party to enter the federal...
Date of birth:
- May 8, 1945
Date of death:
- Nov 20, 2004 (age 59 years)
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Nick Bolkus
Nick Bolkus (born 17 July 1950) is a former Australian Labor Party politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate from July 1981 to 2005, representing the state of South Australia.
He was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and was educated at...
Date of birth:
- Jul 17, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Robert Hill
Robert Murray Hill (born 25 September 1946), is a former Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Australia and a former Australian politician. He currently heads the Australian Carbon Trust.
Hill was elected as a Liberal member of the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Dominic Foreman
Dominic John Foreman (born 6 August 1933) is a former Australian politician. He was a union official and South Australian Secretary of the Vehicle Builders' Employees' Union before entering politics. From 1979-1980 he was President of the South...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1933 (age 76 years)
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Rosemary Crowley
Rosemary Anne Crowley (born July 30, 1938) was a Labor Senator for South Australia from 1983 to 2002.
Before entering politics Crowley was a medical practitioner and tutor at Flinders University. During her term in the Senate she held two...
Date of birth:
- Jul 30, 1938 (age 71 years)
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Amanda Vanstone
Amanda Eloise Vanstone (born 7 December 1952) is a former Australian politician and the current Ambassador to Italy, taking office in June 2007. She was a Liberal Senator for South Australia from 1984 to 2007, and held several ministerial portfolios...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1952 (age 57 years)
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Grant Chapman
Hedley Grant Pearson Chapman (born 27 April 1949) is an Australian politician.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Chapman was educated at the University of Adelaide and worked as a marketing executive in the oil industry and a self-employed...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1949 (age 60 years)
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Chris Schacht
Christopher Cleland Schacht (born 6 December 1946) is a former Australian politician and member of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was born in Melbourne and educated at the University of Adelaide and Wattle Park...
Date of birth:
- Dec 6, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Meg Lees
Meg Heather Lees (born 19 October 1948) was a member of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 2005, representing the state of South Australia. She represented the Australian Democrats from 1990 to 2002, was an independent senator between 2002 and 2003,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 19, 1948 (age 61 years)
Alan Ferguson
The Hon. Alan Baird Ferguson (born 16 September 1943), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since May 1992, representing South Australia. On 14 August 2007 Senator Ferguson became the 22nd President of the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 16, 1943 (age 66 years)
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Natasha Stott Despoja
Natasha Jessica Stott Despoja (born 9 September 1969) is an Australian former politician and former leader of the Australian Democrats. She was a Democrats senator for South Australia from 1995 to 2008. Appointed to the Senate at the age of 26, she...
Date of birth:
- Sep 9, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Jeannie Ferris
Jeannie Margaret Ferris (14 March 1941 – 2 April 2007) was an Australian politician, lobbyist, journalist, and Liberal Senator for South Australia. She was educated at Monash University, where she graduated in agricultural economics.
Ferris was born...
Date of birth:
- Mar 14, 1941
Date of death:
- Apr 2, 2007 (age 66 years)
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John Quirke
John Quirke (born 9 September 1950) was a South Australian parliamentarian, representing the state seat of Playford from 1989 to 1997, until his resignation to replace Dominic Foreman as a Senator, until his own resignation in 2000.
Date of birth:
- Sep 9, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Geoff Buckland
Geoffrey Frederick Buckland (born 10 November 1947), was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate from 2000 to 2005, representing the state of South Australia. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was blast furnace operator,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 10, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Penny Wong
Penelope "Penny" Ying-yen Wong (traditional Chinese: 黃英賢; simplified Chinese: 黄英贤; pinyin: Huáng Yīngxián; born 5 November 1968), Australian Labor Party politician, is the current and first Australian Minister for Climate Change and Water. She has...
Date of birth:
- Nov 5, 1968 (age 41 years)
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Linda Kirk
Linda Jean Kirk (born 24 May, 1967) is an Australian politician. She was a Labor member of the Australian Senate from 2002 to 2008, representing the state of South Australia.
Kirk was born in Adelaide. She joined the Australian Labor Party in 1988...
Date of birth:
- May 24, 1967 (age 42 years)
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Anne McEwen
Anne McEwen (born 3 August 1954) is an Australian politician and has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing the state of South Australia. She was elected at the 2004 federal election.
McEwen is a deputy government...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Annette Hurley
Annette Kay Hurley (born 23 March 1955), Australian politician, has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing the state of South Australia. She was elected at the 2004 federal election.
Hurley was educated at the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 23, 1955 (age 54 years)
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Dana Wortley
Dana Johanna Wortley (born 1959 in Adelaide), Australian politician, is a Labor Senator for South Australia.
Before entering politics Wortley was employed as a school teacher, journalist and representative for the Media, Entertainment and Arts...
Date of birth:
- 1959 (age 51 years)
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Cory Bernardi
Cory Bernardi (born 6 November 1969, Adelaide) is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since 2006, representing the state of South Australia.
Bernardi was born and raised in Adelaide by parents Jo and Leon....
Date of birth:
- Nov 6, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Simon Birmingham
Simon John Birmingham (born 14 June 1974 in Adelaide, South Australia), an Australian politician, is a Liberal member of the Australian Senate, representing South Australia.
Birmingham spent many of his early years living with his grandmother in the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 14, 1974 (age 35 years)
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Mary Jo Fisher
Mary Josephine Fisher (born 25 December 1962) is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since 2007, representing the state of South Australia.
Fisher was chosen on June 6, 2007 to fill a vacancy in the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 25, 1962 (age 47 years)
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David Feeney
David Ian Feeney (born 5 March 1970) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008.
Feeney attended Mercedes College, Adelaide before moving to Melbourne.
Feeney served as Victorian State Secretary...
Date of birth:
- Mar 5, 1970 (age 39 years)
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Nick Xenophon
Nicholas "Nick" Xenophon (born Nicholas Xenophou; 29 January 1959) 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...
Date of birth:
- Jan 29, 1959 (age 50 years)
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Don Farrell
Donald Edward Farrell (born 6 June 1954) is an Australian politician and former trade union leader. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since 1 July 2008, representing the state of South Australia. Before entering the Senate, Farrell...
Date of birth:
- Jun 6, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Sarah Hanson-Young
Sarah Hanson-Young is an Australian politician.
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1981 (age 28 years)
