Don Dunstan

35th Premier of South Australia

Don Dunstan was a South Australian politician. He entered politics as the Member for Norwood in 1953, became leader of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party in 1967, and was premier of South Australia between June 1967 and April 1968, and again between June 1970 and February 1979. He was responsible for some of the most innovative legislation South Australia, and Australia, had seen.

‘South Australia will become the technological, the design, the social reform, and the artistic centre of Australia.'

Don Dunstan, 1981