Trevor Crothers (20 May 1938 – 9 July 2002) was a

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n politician. Crothers entered the

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in 1987 to fill a Labor Party vacancy, and then was re-elected as a Labor candidate in

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. However he resigned from the party in order to support the

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Liberal government's legislation to privatise ETSA in 1999.Shock Labor "betrayal" allows SA Govt to effectively privatise power utility
'' 7.30 Report'', ABC, 3 June 1999. Archived copy. Retrieved 20 September 2017 His first electoral test as a non-Labor candidate was at the

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. He stood as an independent for the Legislative Council, but failed to get elected.

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