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John Olsen
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 Olsen Liberals were 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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