Jack Snelling

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John James "Jack" Snelling (born 8 November 1972) is an Australian politician who has been the sitting Labor member for the electoral district of Playford in the South Australian House of Assembly since the 1997 election.

Prior to his election into politics, Snelling was an electoral officer. Entering parliament in 1997 at the age of 24, he was the youngest member of the House of Assembly at the time, and has since held positions of Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees.

Following the 2010 election, Snelling was appointed as the Minister for Employment, Training and Further Education, Science, Information Economy, Veterans Affairs and Road Safety.^[1]

Following the resignation of Kevin Foley from the positions of Treasurer and Deputy Premier, Snelling was sworn in as the Treasurer of South Australia on 8 February 2011.^[2]

References

↑ Brett Williamson (25 March 2010). "Rann's reign continues as Labor Government sworn in". ABC News Online (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Retrieved 25 March 2010.
↑ Michael Owen (19 Jan 2010). "South Australia's Right faction to seal deputy role for Rau". The Australian. Retrieved 19 Jan 2010.

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Political offices
Preceded by Kevin Foley	Treasurer of South Australia 2011–2013	Succeeded by Jay Weatherill
Preceded by John Hill	Minister for Health and Ageing 2013–present	Incumbent
Parliament of South Australia
New district	Member for Playford 1997–present	Incumbent

v t e Current members of the Cabinet of South Australia

Weatherill Rau Gago Snelling Rankine Koutsantonis O'Brien Portolesi Kenyon Fox Hunter Piccolo Bignell

v t e Current Members of the South Australian House of Assembly

Labor (26)	Michael Atkinson Frances Bedford Zoe Bettison Leon Bignell Lyn Breuer Paul Caica Susan Close Patrick Conlon Chloë Fox Robyn Geraghty John Hill Tom Kenyon Steph Key Tom Koutsantonis Michael O'Brien Lee Odenwalder Tony Piccolo Grace Portolesi Jennifer Rankine John Rau Alan Sibbons Jack Snelling Gay Thompson Leesa Vlahos Jay Weatherill Michael Wright

Liberal (18)	Vickie Chapman Iain Evans John Gardner Mark Goldsworthy Steven Griffiths Martin Hamilton-Smith Duncan McFetridge Steven Marshall Adrian Pederick Michael Pengilly David Pisoni Isobel Redmond Rachel Sanderson Peter Treloar Dan van Holst Pellekaan Ivan Venning Tim Whetstone Mitch Williams

Independents (3)	Geoff Brock Don Pegler Bob Such

Persondata
Name	Snelling, Jack
Alternative names
Short description	Australian politician
Date of birth	8 November 1972
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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