Mike Rann

Michael David Rann CNZM (born 5 January 1953), Australian politician, is the 44th Premier of South Australia, serving since the 2002 election. He has been the parliamentary leader of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 1994, and a South Australian MP since the 1985 election. Rann was born in Sidcup, Kent, United Kingdom, to working-class parents. Most of his childhood was spent with his father, an electrician in ... more

Michael David Rann CNZM (born 5 January 1953), Australian politician, is the 44th Premier of South Australia, serving since the 2002 election. He has been the parliamentary leader of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 1994, and a South Australian MP since the 1985 election. Rann was born in Sidcup, Kent, United Kingdom, to working-class parents. Most of his childhood was spent with his father, an electrician in south London. During his father's tenure in the second world war at El Alamein, his mother was employed in an armaments factory. Rann's family emigrated from Blackfen to a rural village in New Zealand in 1962. He completed a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in political science at the University of Auckland. He enjoyed and participated in student politics, including becoming a member of the New Zealand Greenpeace executive that sent Greenpeace III to Mururoa Atoll in 1972 in the campaign against French nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean. As a... less