John Olsen
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The Honourable John Olsen AO |
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| 42nd Premier of South Australia Elections: 1985, 1989, 1997 |
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In office 28 November 1996 – 22 October 2001 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor | Sir Eric Neal |
| Deputy |
Graham Ingerson Rob Kerin |
| Preceded by | Dean Brown |
| Succeeded by | Rob Kerin |
| Senator for South Australia | |
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In office 7 May 1990 – 4 May 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Tony Messner |
| Succeeded by | Alan Ferguson |
| 32nd Leader of the Opposition (SA) | |
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In office 10 November 1982 – 12 January 1990 |
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| Preceded by | John Bannon |
| Succeeded by | Dale Baker |
| Member for Kavel | |
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In office 9 May 1992 – 9 February 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Roger Goldsworthy |
| Succeeded by | Mark Goldsworthy |
| Member for Custance | |
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In office 7 December 1985 – 6 May 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Venning |
| Member for Rocky River | |
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In office 15 September 1979 – 7 December 1985 |
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| Preceded by | Howard Venning |
| Succeeded by | Constituency Abolished |
| Personal details | |
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John Wayne Olsen 7 June 1945 Kadina, South Australia |
| Political party | Liberal Party of Australia (SA) |
| Parents | Stanley John Olsen and Joyce Rosalind nee Heath |
John Wayne Olsen, AO (born 7 June 1945) was Premier of South Australia between 28 November 1996 and 22 October 2001. He was twice the parliamentary leader of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the South Australian House of Assembly, from 1982 to 1990 and again from 1996 to 2001. He unsuccessfully led the party to both the 1985 election and 1989 election.
In 1990, Olsen was appointed to a casual vacancy in the Australian Senate, but quit less than two years later to return to the South Australian House of Assembly at the 1992 Kavel by-election. He ran for the Liberal leadership but lost to Dean Brown, who successfully led the party to a landslide at the 1993 election, however Olsen successfully challenged Brown for the Premiership and Liberal leadership a year before the 1997 election where the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia retained government for the first time in history, albeit reduced to minority government. Due to the Motorola affair where Olsen misled parliament, he resigned the premiership to Rob Kerin several months before the 2002 election where the Liberals lost government. Olsen is the longest-serving Liberal Party of Australia Premier of South Australia and the fourth-longest-serving Leader of the Opposition.
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