Kris Hanna

The Reverend Kris Hanna JP
Minister of the Unitarian Church of South Australia
Incumbent
Assumed office October 2022
Preceded by	Rev. Rob MacPherson
12th Mayor of theCity of Marion
Incumbent
Assumed office November 2014
Deputy	Ian Crossland
Preceded by	DrFelicity-Ann Lewis
Member forMitchellin theSouth Australian House of Assembly
In office 11 October 1997 – 20 March 2010
Preceded by	Colin Caudell
Succeeded by	Alan Sibbons
Personal details
Born	1962 (age 61–62)
Nationality	Australian
Political party	none
Other political affiliations	Labor(1997–2003) Greens(2003–2006) Independent(2006–2018)SA-Best(2022)

Kris Hanna(born 1962) is the Mayor ofMarioninSouth Australia.He was the member forMitchellin theHouse of Assemblyfrom 1997 until 2010. Originally elected as a member of theLabor Party,Hanna joined theSA Greensin 2003 before becoming anindependentmember in 2006.

Before enteringParliament,Hanna practised law. He also served as a Councillor for theCity of Marionfrom 1995 to 1997. He returned to practicing law in 2010 and, in 2014 was elected unopposed as Mayor of the City of Marion.

Hanna has served on the Board of Victim Support Service, and is Patron of numerous local sporting clubs. He was a long-serving member of the Seaview High School Governing Council and had been President of Friends of Glenthorne.

While initially elected at the1997and2002 electionsas a member of the Labor Party, he moved to the Greens in early 2003. He resigned from the Greens on 8 February 2006, ran in the2006 electionas an independent and won. His chances of retaining his seat in 2006 had been essentially written off by most commentators after his decision to become an Independent MP, but he won a narrow victory after a very low Liberal primary vote, and an endorsement from popular Independent MPNick Xenophon.Despite an improvedprimary vote,he narrowly lost his seat at the2010 election,finishing third after all non-major party preferences had been distributed.

Hanna sought to have his 2010 election loss overturned by theSupreme Court of South Australia,sitting as theCourt of Disputed Returns,saying he fell victim to "misleading and defamatory" leaflets and posters distributed by the Labor Party. The court ruled the leaflets – labelling Hanna "soft on crime" – were defamatory and not factual, yet there was a right to express such opinions. The court dismissed Hanna's case.

Hanna unsuccessfully re-contested the seat ofMitchellat the2014 election.Some of the local issues Hanna campaigned on were: upgrading the Oaklands rail crossing and making Glenthorne a forested recreational park - both aspirations which have since been realised.In the2018 South Australian state electionhe stood as theSA Bestcandidate for theelectoral district of Gibson.

Hanna was re-elected as Mayor of Marion in November 2018 for a further 4-year term. He received 9094 primary votes out of 15907 votes cast.Hanna was re-elected Mayor of Marion in November 2022 for a further 4-year term. He received 11,988 first preference votes out of 19,219 formal ballot papers counted.

As of August 2023, Hanna was serving as the Minister of theUnitarian Church of South Australia.

External links

• "Kris Hanna".Former members of theParliament of South Australia.Retrieved19 August2022.