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The Premier of South Australia is the head of government in the state of South Australia. Before the 1890s when there was no formal party system in South Australia, MPs tended to have historical liberal or conservative beliefs.
Image right: a photograph of former South Australian premiers Robert Richards, Sir Richard Layton Butler, Hon Lionel Laughton Hill, Sir Henry Newman Barwell and Sir Thomas Playford, taken in 1940.