SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 2010

LEE Labor 20.4%
Region: North-Western Suburbs Federal divisions: Port Adelaide/Hindmarsh
	BOB BRITON Independent MICHAEL WRIGHT Labor (top) SUE GOW Liberal (bottom) COLIN THOMAS Independent YESHA JOSHI Greens JOE ROSSI Independent RICHARD BUNTING Family First
Electoral District Boundaries Commission map

Lee covers the Lefevre Peninsula opposite Port Adelaide as far north as Largs Bay (the peninsula's northernmost suburb, Largs North, is a somewhat anomalous inclusion in Port Adelaide), and extends south along the coast through Sempahore and West Lakes to Tennyson. The redistribution has shaved off a peculiar salient in which southern Seaton extended into Colton, and added Largs Bay from Port Adelaide. Lee was known as Albert Park prior to the 1993 election, the suburb of that name now being in Cheltenham to the east. The Liberal Party's success in winning the seat was the high-water mark of their 1993 triumph, unexpectedly bringing to parliament Joe Rossi, who advocated what Antony Green calls “innovative policy ideas such as sterilising unmarried mothers after the third child, or introducing a modern version of poor houses for welfare recipients”.

Lee inevitably returned to the Labor fold in 1997, and their hold was solidified by a 9.6 per cent swing in 2006. The member throughout this time has been Michael Wright, whose father Jack Wright was a secretary of the Australian Workers Union and an ally of Labor legend Mick Young. Wright the younger also did his Labor apprenticeship in the AWU, and quickly made it to the front bench as Industrial Relations and Transport Minister when the Rann government came to power. However, Wright has not emerged as one of the stars of the Rann cabinet: he was demoted from transport to administrative services and gambling in March 2004, and further lost gambling after the 2006 election. There was speculation he would be dropped from cabinet in mid-2008, but like most such speculation this was defied by the timid July reshuffle, which moved Wright from industrial relations to police and emergency services. He was again undisturbed by the March 2009 reshuffle, having reportedly retained the backing of Right faction figurehead Senator Don Farrell.

PREDICTION: Labor retain