Commissioner of Public Works (South Australia) explained

Post:	Commissioner of Public Works
Style:	The Honourable
Member Of:	Cabinet
Reports To:	Parliament
Appointer:	Governor of South Australia
Termlength:	At Her Majesty's pleasure
First:	Arthur Freeling
Last:	Kym Mayes

The Commissioner of Public Works was a member of Cabinet of the Government of South Australia.

Originally created for the Finniss Ministry on 24 October 1856, there were 63 holders of the public works portfolio. It was known as Commissioner for Public Works for most of its existence, however since the Playford Government in the 1960s, it was known as Minister for Works or Public Works.

The longest holder was Malcolm McIntosh, a member of the Liberal Federation/Liberal and Country League and a minister in the Butler and Playford governments, who held the portfolio on two separate occasions for a total of 23 years and 45 days. The last holder was Kym Mayes, a member of the Labor Party and a minister in Lynn Arnold's government. The title was abolished on and superseded by portfolio's for Infrastructure and Transport.

List of Commissioner of Public Works of South Australia

width=5	Order	width=165	Minister	width=80 colspan="2"	Party	width=140	Premier	width=180	Title	width=150	Term start	width=150	Term end	width=140	Term in office
1	Arthur Freeling		No Party	Finniss	Commissioner of Public Works	align=center		align=center
2	Samuel Davenport			Finniss		align=center		align=center
3	Arthur Blyth			Baker		align=center		align=center
n/a	Samuel Davenport			Torrens		align=center		align=center
4	Thomas Reynolds			Hanson		align=center		align=center
align=center	n/a			Hanson		Arthur Blyth	align=center		align=center
5	Alexander Hay			Reynolds		align=center		align=center
6	Philip Santo			Waterhouse		align=center		align=center
7	John Lindsay					align=center		align=center
8	William Milne					align=center		align=center
9	William Townsend			Dutton		align=center		align=center
n/a	Philip Santo			Ayers		align=center		align=center
n/a	William Milne			Blyth		align=center		align=center
10	Francis Dutton			Dutton		align=center		align=center		days
n/a	Philip Santo			Ayers		align=center		align=center
11	Thomas English			Hart		align=center		align=center
11	Thomas English			Boucaut		align=center		align=center
n/a	Philip Santo			Ayers		align=center		align=center
12	William Everard			Hart		align=center		align=center
n/a	Philip Santo			Ayers		align=center		align=center
13	John Colton			Strangways		align=center		align=center
14	Friedrich Krichauff			Strangways		align=center		align=center
15	John Carr			Hart		align=center		align=center
15	John Carr			Blyth		align=center		align=center
16	James Ramsay			Ayers		align=center		align=center
17	Wentworth Cavenagh			Ayers		align=center		align=center
18	Henry Bright			Blyth		align=center		align=center
19	William West-Erskine			Boucaut		align=center		align=center
20	James Boucaut			Boucaut		align=center		align=center
21	John Colton			Colton		align=center		align=center
22	George Hawker			Boucaut		align=center		align=center
Morgan	George Hawker			align=center			align=center
n/a	James Ramsay			Bray		align=center		align=center
23	David Bower			Bray		align=center		align=center
24	Thomas Playford II			Colton		align=center		align=center
25	Jenkin Coles			Colton		align=center		align=center
26	John Darling			Downer		align=center		align=center
27	John Spence					align=center		align=center
28	Luke Furner					align=center		align=center
29	Alfred Catt			Playford II		align=center		align=center
30	James Howe			Cockburn		align=center		align=center
31	Thomas Burgoyne			Cockburn		align=center		align=center
32	William Rounsevell			Playford II		align=center		align=center
33	John Jenkins			Playford II		align=center		align=center
34	Andrew Handyside			Holder		align=center		align=center
35	Lawrence Grayson			Downer		align=center		align=center
No Holder				Downer		align=center		align=center
36	Frederick Holder		Liberalism	Kingston		align=center		align=center
37	John Jenkins		Liberalism	Kingston		align=center		align=center
n/a	Andrew Handyside		No Party	Solomon		align=center		align=center
align=center rowspan="2"	38			Richard Foster		Holder	align=center		align=center		align=right rowspan="2"
Jenkins	align=center			Richard Foster			align=center
Jenkins	No Holder					align=center		align=center
align=center	n/a	Richard Foster				No Party	Butler	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	39	Thomas Price				Labor	Price	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	40	Laurence O'Loughlin				bgcolor=#98FB98	Farmers &<br>Producers Union	Peake	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	41	John Verran				Labor	Verran	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	42	Richard Butler		bgcolor=#BDEDFF rowspan="2"		Liberal Union	Peake	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	43	George Ritchie		align=center			Peake	align=center		align=right
align=center	44	Harry Jackson				Labor	Vaughan	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	45	John Bice		bgcolor=#BDEDFF rowspan="4"		Liberal Union	Peake	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	46	George Ritchie		align=center			Peake	align=center		align=right
align=center	47	William Hague		Barwell		align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center rowspan="2"	48	Thomas Pascoe				align=center		align=center		align=right rowspan="2"
bgcolor=#BDEDFF rowspan="2"	Liberal Federation	Thomas Pascoe			align=center		align=center
align=center	49	George Jenkins			align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	50	Lionel Hill		Labor	Gunn	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	51	John McInnes		Labor	Hill	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	52	Malcolm McIntosh		bgcolor=#BDEDFF rowspan="1"	Liberal Federation	Butler	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center rowspan="2"	n/a	John McInnes		Labor	Hill	align=center		align=center		align=right
Richards	align=center	John McInnes		Labor		align=center		align=right
align=center	53	Herbert Hudd		bgcolor=#ADD8E6 rowspan="5"	Liberal &<br>Country League	Butler	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center rowspan="2"	n/a	Malcolm McIntosh		Playford	align=center		align=center		align=right rowspan="2"
Minister for Works	align=center	Malcolm McIntosh				align=center
	align=center	54			Colin Rowe	align=center		align=center		align=right
	align=center	55			Glen Pearson	align=center		align=center		align=right
	align=center rowspan="2"	56	Cyril Hutchens		Labor	Walsh	align=center		align=center		align=right rowspan="2"
	Dunstan	align=center	Cyril Hutchens		Labor		align=center
	align=center	57	John Coumbe		bgcolor=#ADD8E6 rowspan="2"	Liberal &<br>Country League	Hall	align=center		align=center		align=right
	align=center	58	Allan Rodda		align=center		Hall	align=center		align=right
	align=center rowspan="2"	59	Des Corcoran		Labor	Dunstan	align=center		align=center		align=right rowspan="2"
	Corcoran	align=center	Des Corcoran				align=center
align=center	Corcoran	60	John Wright			Minister for Public Works	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center	61	Dean Brown			Liberal		Tonkin	align=center		align=center		align=right
align=center rowspan="1"	n/a	John Wright		Labor	Bannon		align=center		align=center		align=right rowspan="1"
align=center rowspan="1"	62	Terry Hemmings					align=center		align=center		align=right rowspan="1"
align=center rowspan="2"	63	Kym Mayes					align=center		align=center		align=right rowspan="2"
Arnold	align=center	Kym Mayes					align=center

References

Former Members of the Parliament of South Australia (Parliament of South Australia)