Steven Griffiths MP
Steven was born in Adelaide in 1962 and moved to Yorketown when he was four years of age.
After completing his schooling at Yorketown Area School, Steven married local girl Donna, built a house in Maitland and raised two wonderful children, Tyler and Kelsey.
Steven was CEO for a couple of regional councils before returning home to the Yorke Peninsula to run the local council.
Since being elected to Parliament as the Member for Goyder in 2006, Steven has become Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and Treasury spokesperson. It is in this role that Steven has seen the extent of the Rann Government’s mismanagement of our tax system that has seen South Australia become the highest taxed State in Australia and has significantly reduced our competiveness as a state. Steven is committed to growing economic and employment opportunities for South Australia by providing more efficient government and reducing taxes that are a drag on the economy and employment, such as Land Tax.
Having spent most of his life in the country, Steven is fighting for a fairer deal for rural South Australians especially our farmers, the backbone of our great State, who have again been forgotten by a city centric Labor Government.
George Woodruffe Goyder (1826-1898) was Surveyor-General of South Australia 1861-1894 and established the pattern of agriculture and pastoral development in northern South Australia. "Goyder's Line" ran east-west across the colony indicating the northern limits of sustainable agricultural development.