Mike Rann

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mike Rann
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jan 5, 1953(1953-01-05)
Age	71
Birthplace	Sidcup
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Mike Rann Biography

Mike Rann is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on January 5, 1953 in Sidcup, England, United Kingdom. Michael David Rann (AC, CNZM, born 5 January 1953) was an Australian politician. He was 44th Premier of South Australia between 2002 and 2011. Rann accepted a professorship in Flinders University and a visiting fellowship to University of Auckland in 2012. He was the 44th Premier of South Australia from 2002 to 2011. Rann was also awarded the Companion of Australia (AC), in the 2016 Australia Day Honours.

He was Minister for Employment and Further Education and established the Kickstart employment program, South Australian Youth Conservation Corps and presided over a significant expansion of TAFE. In 1992, he signed an agreement between Le Cordon Bleu and the Swiss Hotel Association and Regency College of TAFE in order to create an international culinary and hospitality school. In 1991, he introduced legislation to create the University of South Australia. It is now the largest university in South Australia. He was a member the Australian Education Council and played a crucial role in 1992 when ANTA, the Australian National Training Authority was established. This authority provides shared funding for TAFE from both the Federal and state governments. He was Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and campaigned for the clean-up of Maralinga lands that were affected by the UK’s nuclear tests in 1950s. In 1991, he legislated to return sacred Ooldea lands back to the Maralinga Tjarutja. He was Minister of Tourism and responsible for the Australian Formula One Grand Prix.

Rann went into the 1997 election as a decided underdog. However, he turned the campaign into a “referendum on privatisation.” Under Rann’s leadership, Labor regained much of what it had lost in its severe defeat of four years earlier. Labor picked up a massive 9.4 percent swing, still the largest against a sitting government on record in South Australia. It also more than doubled its seat count compared to 1993, and actually came within three seats of making Rann premier. Olsen was forced into a minority government, supported by the Nationals and independents. After the election the Liberal government reversed their pre-election commitment, opting to privatise the state’s electricity assets, contributing to the Liberal government’s declining poll support. Following the Motorola affair, Olsen was forced to resign as Premier in late

2001. He was succeeded by his popular deputy Rob Kerin, who was able to significantly reduce Labor’s poll lead.

Rann remained Leader of the Opposition until the 2002 election. The Labor opposition took two seats from the Liberals. This left Labor one short of majority government while the Liberals were four seats short. Despite this, it initially appeared Kerin would remain in office with the support of four conservative-leaning independents. However, one of those independents, former Liberal Peter Lewis, agreed to support Labor in return for a constitutional convention and being named Speaker. On paper, this made Rann premier-elect, with a majority of one vote. In response, Kerin announced that in accordance with precedent set by Don Dunstan three decades earlier, he would stay in office until Labor demonstrated it had support on the floor of the House of Assembly. He argued that since the Liberals had won a bare majority of the two-party vote, he still had a mandate to govern. Three weeks of deadlock ended when the new legislature met for the first time. With Lewis presiding, Kerin proposed a motion of confidence in his government. The motion failed, and Kerin’s government immediately resigned. Rann then advised Governor Marjorie Jackson-Nelson that he could form a government, and was duly sworn in the next day. Rann later secured the support of conservative independent Rory McEwen and the Nationals’ Karlene Maywald by adding them to his cabinet. He also agreed to back Liberal-turned-independent Bob Such as Speaker after Lewis retired.

Rann was elected Member for the safe Labor seat at Briggs, north Adelaide in the 1985 election. He was elected to Parliament in 1989 as the Member for the safe Labor seat of Briggs in north Adelaide.

Mike Rann Net Worth

Mike Rann is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mike Rann 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rann was born in Sidcup (Kent). His father, an electrician, had served in World War II at El Alamein. His mother worked in an armaments plant. Rann spent most of his childhood in South London with his father. His family immigrated to Mangakino in New Zealand when Rann was nine years old. His family moved to Matamata and then to Birkenhead on Auckland’s North Shore, where he attended Northcote College.

Rann visited Chris in Adelaide in 1977. He moved to the city shortly thereafter to take up a position in Don Dunstan’s Industrial Democracy Unit. After Dunstan’s retirement, he worked as Dunstan’s press secretary, speechwriter, and adviser. He went on to serve Labor premier Des Corcoran, John Bannon, and other Labor premiers. Manning stated that a commentator said Rann was inspired by Dunstan’s idealism, rather than Bannon’s cool electoral pragmatics. Rann spoke at times during the period when he aspired to be Premier. Rann also wrote speeches and helped with policy development regarding civil liberties, Aboriginal land rights and gay and female rights. He also opposed uranium mines. His early ideas were left-of-center, revealing a deep vein of ideallism.

Labor lost government at the 1993 election in a landslide due to the State Bank collapse, falling to only 10 seats. After the election, Rann was first elected as Deputy Leader of the Opposition under Lynn Arnold. However, when Arnold resigned a few months later, Rann succeeded him as Parliamentary Leader of the Opposition in September 1994. As Opposition Leader Rann launched a “Labor Listens” strategy designed to re-connect with voters and vigorously opposed the privatisation of water services and electricity assets. Assisted by Liberal government leaks he exploited their internal divisions. Following the ousting of Premier Dean Brown by John Olsen, Rann released a series of damaging Cabinet documents and was involved in a prolonged and bitter legal battle with Premier Olsen.

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Fourth quarter 2007 polling saw a reduction in the strong support for Rann’s Labor government since the previous election, on 54 percent of the two-party- preferred vote, a fall from the previous poll of five percent. Rann’s Preferred Premier rating was at 50 percent compared to 25 percent for then Liberal leader Martin Hamilton-Smith. Third quarter 2008 polling saw a more pronounced drop in the primary vote, down three to 38 percent, with the Liberal vote up five to 40 percent, breaking to a two-party vote of 50–50 after preferences – the Preferred Premier figure recorded a six-point drop to 48 percent for Rann and up three to 30 percent for Hamilton-Smith. Some commentators put the poll slump down to “labour movement ructions” over the underfunded WorkCover liability (see 2008 Parnell–Bressington filibuster), consolidation of rural health services, and the continued degradation of the River Murray.

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Newspoll saw Labor back in a winning position on 54 to 46 in late 2008, and then 56 to 44 in early 2009 along with increases in the Preferred Premier rating. Polling taken from The Sunday Mail during the 50-50 polling suggested that whilst there had been large swings away from the government in country areas, polling held relatively firm at 2006 election levels in the metropolitan areas.