Kris Hanna

Kris Hanna (born 1962) is the Mayor of Marion in South Australia. He was the member for Mitchell in the House of Assembly from 1997 until 2010. Originally elected as a member of the Labor Party, Hanna joined the SA Greens in 2003 before becoming an independent member in 2006.

Kris Hanna
5th Mayor of Marion
Assumed office
2014
Preceded byFelicity-Ann Lewis
Member for Mitchell in the South Australian House of Assembly
In office
11 October 1997 – 20 March 2010
Preceded byColin Caudell
Succeeded byAlan Sibbons
Personal details
Born1962 (age 57–58)
NationalityAustralian
Political partyLabor 1997–2003
Greens 2003–2006
Independent 2006–2010
SA-Best 2018–

Before entering Parliament, Hanna practised law. He also served as a Councillor for the City of Marion from 1995 to 1997. He returned to practicing law in 2010 and, in 2014 was elected unopposed as Mayor of the City of Marion.

Hanna has served on the Board of Victim Support Service, and is Patron of numerous local sporting clubs. He was a long-serving member of the Seaview High School Governing Council and had been President of Friends of Glenthorne.[1]

While initially elected at the 1997 and 2002 elections as a member of the Labor Party, he moved to the Greens in early 2003. He resigned from the Greens on 8 February 2006, ran in the 2006 election as an independent and won. His chances of retaining his seat in 2006 had been essentially written off by most commentators after his decision to become an Independent MP, but he won a narrow victory after a very low Liberal primary vote, and an endorsement from popular Independent MP Nick Xenophon. Despite an improved primary vote, he narrowly lost his seat at the 2010 election, finishing third after all non-major party preferences had been distributed.

Hanna sought to have his 2010 election loss overturned by the Supreme Court of South Australia, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns, saying he fell victim to "misleading and defamatory" leaflets and posters distributed by the Labor Party. The court ruled the leaflets – labelling Hanna "soft on crime" – were defamatory and not factual, yet there was a right to express such opinions. The court dismissed Hanna's case.[2]

Hanna unsuccessfully re-contested the seat of Mitchell at the 2014 election.[3] Some of the local issues Hanna campaigned on were: upgrading the Oaklands rail crossing and making Glenthorne a forested recreational park.[4]

In the 2018 South Australian state election he stood as the SA Best candidate for the electoral district of Gibson.[5][6]

Hanna was re-elected as Mayor of Marion in November 2018 for a further 4-year term. He received 9094 primary votes out of 15907 votes cast.[7]

References
  1. About Kris Hanna Archived 7 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Kris Hanna loses election court case: The Advertiser 15 October 2010
  3. Former independent MP Kris Hanna ... to stand for 2014 state election
  4. Kris Hanna – Local Issues Archived 7 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Electorate of Gibson, sabest.org.au
  6. Kris Hanna – candidate for the seat of Gibson, sabest.org.au
  7. "2018 Council Elections Results Page - Electoral Commission SA". www.ecsa.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
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