Talk:1975 South Australian state election

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This is a very interesting election, if you're going to be working on doing another one. You've got to hand it to Dunstan here; winning despite federal unpopularity, and the opposition splitting into three different groups. michael ^talk 00:15, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Eastick

I don't spose you or anyone else might be able to source a photo of Bruce Eastick? He's no longer in the public arena so an image cannot be found so an image used would be considered fair use, whether it be an online photo or one scanned from a book someone might happen to have lying around :-) Timeshift 03:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Eastick was a deadweight and a nobody, scarcely mentioned in any material I have. There's no easily accessible images of him, and I doubt any of us are in a hurry to wade through the state archives. michael ^talk 04:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Upper House

I don't think I got the upper house totals correct. Does anyone know what the process was with the sitting members? 8 Lib and 2 ALP from the 1973 result combined with the 1975 result? Timeshift 14:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, according to Antony Green.[1] (Though he says it was ALWAYS 8 Liberal and 2 Labor, which I find a bit hard to believe). At the moment the article has 6 Liberal and 4 Labor carrying over, which appears to be wrong. Rocksong 23:01, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. So the 1975 LC was formed by 21 members instead of 22? Timeshift 04:37, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Apparently so. Weird. Rocksong 05:10, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Any further comments? Timeshift (talk) 08:20, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Changes in upper house composition are about my least favourite topic. We sorted the "always 8 Liberal and 2 Labor" issue a while ago" (close but no cigar Antony) - although you did make me find and remove an entertaining typo: "Ten of these members were elected at the 1975 state election with terms expiring in 1982, while the other half were elected at the 1979 state election with terms expiring in 1985." (Oh dear.)

6 Liberal (Burdett, Cooper, DeGaris, Geddes, Potter, Whyte) and 4 Labor (Banfield, Casey, Chatterton, Creedon) carrying over is objectively true. I'd now love to know the story of how Chatterton and Creedon pulled off a win in Midland Province (which I'd never noticed before) - I actually own Chatterton's autobiography and it's the first incentive I've ever had to actually read it. I'd assume any discrepancy between the should-be-total and the actual-total would come down to transitional arrangements associated with the switchover. The Drover's Wife (talk) 09:50, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

As far as the Midland Province result: Chatterton basically says that it had become increasingly urbanised by the 1975 election, that it was considered at least possibly winnable with the enthusiasm of Dunstan's leadership, and that they'd preselected former MHA Lloyd Hughes who had been redistributed out of his Wallaroo seat by one-vote-one-value and long-serving candidate Creedon, expecting a serious campaign from the beginning. Hughes then withdrew to ill-health, Chatterton was preselected in his place, and they won by embarking on a massive enrolment campaign to get all those metropolitan voters actually enrolled to vote for the Legislative Council. He says the Northern Province candidates did the same in Port Pirie and Whyalla and nearly won too. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:04, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Ted Connelly

Does anyone know much about this fellow? I type [/"ted connelly" parliament/] in to google but get no results at all apart from wikipedia keyword findings and two other useless links. I can't find a parliamentary page on him either. Timeshift 12:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC)