Susan Close

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Susan Close

Member of the South Australian Parliament for Port Adelaide
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 February 2012
Preceded by	Kevin Foley
Personal details
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Labor
Spouse(s)	Declan
Children	2
Residence	Semaphore
Alma mater	Flinders University
Occupation	Executive Director - Strategy, DENR
Website	Parliamentary website

Susan Elizabeth Close is an Australian politician representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Port Adelaide for the Australian Labor Party since the 2012 Port Adelaide by-election.

Close retained the seat for Labor on a 42.3 percent primary and 52.9 percent two-candidate preferred vote. The by-election was held after the resignation of the previous Labor Party incumbent Kevin Foley. Close earned a PhD in political science at Flinders University and worked as a public servant before entering parliament.^[1]

References

↑ Port Adelaide 2012 by-election: ABC elections

External links

Australian Labor Party South Australian Branch > Susan Close Accessed 26 June 2012.

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	Close, Susan
Alternative names
Short description	Australian politician
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