Changes to Cabinet as Susan Close and

Stephen Mullighan depart

October 2025 Kyam Maher MLC has been elected Deputy Leader of South Australia’s Parliamentary Labor Party. Senior Labor Minister Tom Koutsantonis has been appointed South Australian Treasurer. The Member for Adelaide Lucy Hood and Member for King Rhiannon Pearce have been elected to Cabinet roles, while the Member for Elder Nadia Clancy will serve as an Assistant Minister. The Deputy Premier Susan Close and Treasurer Stephen Mullighan stood aside from State Cabinet, after each informed the Premier of their intention to retire from State Parliament at the March election. The two ministers have each held senior frontbench portfolios for more than a decade, delivering significant leadership and results for South Australians. Susan Close has served as Deputy Leader of the South Australian Labor Party for seven and a half years and Deputy Premier for three and a half years, working in close partnership with Peter Malinauskas throughout. Dr Close has been Minister for Climate, Environ-ment and Water and Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science since March 2022. She has also served Minister for Workforce and Population Strategy since April 2024. First elected to the seat of Port Adelaide in 2012, Dr Close served in a variety of ministerial roles in the Weatherill Government, including Minister for Manu-facturing, Innovation and Trade, Minister for Education and Child Development, and Minister for Higher Education. Stephen Mullighan has served as Treasurer since 2022, returning the budget to surplus and keeping it there, improving the state’s credit rating outlook, delivering the nation’s best performing economy and winning business endorsement as the best state in which to operate. Mr Mullighan has also served as Minister for Defence and Space Industries and Minister for Police since January. First elected as the Member for Lee in 2014, Stephen Mullighan became only the second Labor MP in history to immediately enter Cabinet, serving as Minister for Transport and Infrastructure and also later Minister for Housing and Urban Development in the Weatherill Government. In addition to funding the state’s biggest ever infrastructure project in a non-stop South Road, Mr Mullighan also played a crucial role in delivering previous major projects including the Torrens to Torrens, Darlington, and Northern Connector projects, along with the O- Bahn city access project and city tram extension.

Greek Tribune Adelaide, South Australia