Morialta is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is a 356 km2 electorate stretching from the Adelaide Hills to the outer eastern and north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, taking in the suburbs and localities of Auldana, Ashton, Athelstone, Basket Range, Birdwood, Castambul, Cherryville, Cudlee Creek, Forest Range, Gumeracha, Highbury, Kenton Valley, Lenswood, Lobethal, Marble Hill, Montacute, Mount Torrens, Norton Summit, Rostrevor, Summertown, Teringie, Uraidla and Woodforde, as well as part of Chain of Ponds.
| Morialta South Australia—House of Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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 Electoral district of Morialta (green) in the Greater Adelaide area | |||||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Created | 2002 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | John Gardner | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Liberal Party of Australia (SA) | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Morialta[citation needed] | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 25,995 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 356 km2 (137.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°52′55″S 138°46′24″E / 34.88194°S 138.77333°E | ||||||||||||||
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| Electoral District map[1] | |||||||||||||||
Morialta is a word derived from the Kaurna language, originally thought to be marri-yartalla, "marri" meaning east and yertala meaning "flowing water".[2] More recent research has shown that the etymology of the word is marri, meaning "east" and probably yarta, meaning "land, earth, country", or possibly yalta, meaning "cool, fresh, airy"; therefore, probably meaning "eastern land or country".[3][4] The land used by the Morialta Conservation Park was traditionally occupied by the Kaurna people.
Morialta was the new name adopted in 2002 for the electoral district of Coles, which was first created at the 1970 election and represented over the years by several distinguished MPs, including former Dunstan Labor government Attorney General Len King, and former Premier Des Corcoran. Morialta was won at the 2002 election by Liberal minister Joan Hall, the last member for Coles, on a margin of 4.1 percent, suffering a -2.4 percent swing. At the 2006 election, Hall was thought likely to again hold the seat with a reduced margin, but was defeated by Labor candidate Lindsay Simmons amidst Labor's statewide landslide, receiving a 12 percent two-party preferred swing to finish with a 7.9 percent margin. However, at the 2010 election the electorate there was a swing of 11.1 percent back to the Liberals, with candidate John Gardner defeating Simmons by a margin of 4.1 percent.
Members for Morialta
edit| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joan Hall | Liberal | 2002–2006 | |
| Lindsay Simmons | Labor | 2006–2010 | |
| John Gardner | Liberal | 2010–present | |
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | John Gardner | 10,935 | 46.2 | +1.9 | |
| Labor | Matthew Marozzi | 8,545 | 36.1 | +11.7 | |
| Greens | Alex Dinovitser | 2,441 | 10.3 | +4.8 | |
| Family First | Nick Zollo | 1,763 | 7.4 | +7.4 | |
| Total formal votes | 23,684 | 96.9 | |||
| Informal votes | 756 | 3.1 | |||
| Turnout | 24,440 | 91.6 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | John Gardner | 12,165 | 51.4 | −8.0 | |
| Labor | Matthew Marozzi | 11,519 | 48.6 | +8.0 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | −8.0 | |||
Notes
edit- ^ Electoral District of Morialta (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Amery, Rob; Buckskin, Vincent (Jack) Kanya (March 2009). "Chapter 10. Pinning down Kaurna names: Linguistic issues arising in the development of the Kaurna Placenames Database" (PDF). In Hercus, Luise; Hodges, Flavia; Simpson, Jane (eds.). The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia. ANU Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-1921536571.
- ^ Schulz, Chester (16 August 2017). "Place Name Summary (PNS) 2/01: Marriyarta (or Marriyalta?)" (PDF). Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi. The Southern Kaurna Place Names Project. University of Adelaide.
- ^ Amery, Rob (2016). "Chapter 8. Kaurna in Society". Warraparna Kaurna!: Reclaiming an Australian language. University of Adelaide Press. p. 204. JSTOR 10.20851/j.ctt1sq5wgq.18. Retrieved 16 November 2020.