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

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...

n politician. Crothers entered the

South Australian Legislative Council The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the South Australian House of Assembly, H ...

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

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

. However he resigned from the party in order to support the Olsen 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 2002 election. He stood as an independent for the Legislative Council, but failed to get elected.

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Independent members of the Parliament of South Australia 1938 births 2002 deaths Members of the South Australian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia 20th-century Australian politicians 21st-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub