John Rau
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The Honourable John Rau SC, MHA |
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| 12th Deputy Premier of South Australia | |
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Assumed office 7 February 2011 |
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| Premier |
Mike Rann Jay Weatherill |
| Preceded by | Kevin Foley |
| 48th Attorney-General of South Australia | |
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Assumed office 25 March 2010 |
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| Premier |
Mike Rann Jay Weatherill |
| Preceded by | Michael Atkinson |
| Member of the South Australian Parliament for Enfield |
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Assumed office 9 February 2002 |
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| Preceded by | New District |
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| Born |
John Robert Rau 20 March 1959 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party (SA) |
John Robert Rau SC (born 20 March 1959) is an Australian barrister and politician. He is the 12th and current Deputy Premier of South Australia since 2011 and 48th and current Attorney-General of South Australia since 2010 for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party in the Weatherill cabinet. Rau has been the Labor member of the House of Assembly seat of Enfield since the 2002 election.
Rau was admitted as a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of South Australia in 1981. He worked as an adviser to Hawke government ministers Mick Young, Michael Tate and Neal Blewett from 1985 to 1988. He has also served on the ALP State and National Executives.
After concluding his service as a political adviser, Rau worked as a solicitor at Duncan & Hannon and later as a solicitor and barrister at the firm of Johnston and Withers. After becoming a partner at Johnston & Withers, Rau established a private legal practice in Adelaide, specialising in industrial, employment, commercial and personal injuries law. In 1998, he was admitted to the independent bar in South Australia, practising as a member of Murray Chambers.
Rau has appeared as counsel 49 times before the South Australian Industrial Relations Commission, 22 times before the South Australian Industrial Relations Court, 15 times before the Supreme Court of South Australia and 7 times before the Federal Court of Australia (including once in his capacity as Attorney-General).
His first political experience as a Labor candidate occurred at the 1993 federal election, when he stood for the Division of Hindmarsh, where he was narrowly defeated by Liberal Party candidate Christine Gallus by 1.6 percent.
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