Ivan Venning MP

State Member for Schubert

Electorate Office Contact Details:

129a Murray Street
Tanunda SA 5352

	(08) 8563 3636
	(08) 8563 0190
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As a State Member of Parliament for over 18 years and a representative of local government for ten years before that, Ivan has a life time of service to the public community in South Australia. He is a fierce advocate for country people focusing on State’s Primary Industries and is a strong supporter of improved State infrastructure for his local community.

Ivan attended Crystal Brook Primary School and worked on the family farm until 1966, when he was called up for National Service – serving in the Royal Australian Artillery as a gunner, operator and batman to the Commanding Officer III Battery.

Ivan has been married to his wife Kay for 39 years and they have three children Mark, a 5th generation farmer on the family farm ‘Montrose’; Shane, a medical engineer at Mayne Pharma and Joanne, State Manager of DE PUY, a Johnson and Johnson international prosthesis company.

Ivan has a great love for local food and wine and in 2002 he was inducted as a Baron of the Barossa. Ivan also has a love for vintage cars and tractors and enjoys playing lawn bowls.

He has achieved many results for Schubert including getting filtered water piped to townships within the electorate and bitumising roads. Ivan continues to fight for his community; fighting  for a new hospital in the Barossa Valley and to get the upstream ferry at Mannum fixed and operating again.

Ivan attends many community events, meetings and is seen out and about in the electorate listening to people’s views.

Electorate Profile

Max Schubert (1915-1994), wine-maker of the renowned Grange Hermitage, was born near Angaston and lived in the Barossa Valley for most of his life. Using pioneering methods and sound judgement he won international acclaim for the South Australian wine industry.

Area: approx. 3,495.3 km²

Location: A country district incorporating the wine-producing region of the Barossa Valley to the north-east of the metropolitan area and the rural hinterland east to the River Murray. This district was subject to boundary changes at the 2007 redistribution.

History: Created at the 1994 redistribution and contested for the first time at the 1997 elections.