Robert Brokenshire (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Brokenshire is an Australian politician in the South Australian Legislative Council. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1993 and 2006, representing the electorate of Mawson. On 24 July 2008 he replaced Andrew Evans as a Family First Party member in the South Australian Legislative Council. Brokenshire was a real estate broker and dairy farmer before entering parliament. In 1993, he was elected amidst the Liberal landslide victory that year, which saw Dean Brown become Premier. He was a backbencher throughout Brown's term as Premier, but was promoted to the ministry in 1998, two years after John Olsen assumed the premiership, with the portfolios of Minister for Police, Correctional Services and Emergency Services. He later gained the gambling and volunteer portfolios.