Steele Hall

Steele Hall
Hall in 1968
36th Premier of South Australia
In office 17 April 1968 – 2 June 1970
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor	Sir Edric Bastyan Sir James Harrison
Preceded by	Don Dunstan
Succeeded by	Don Dunstan
Member of the Australian Parliament for Boothby
In office 21 February 1981 – 29 January 1996
Preceded by	John McLeay Jr.
Succeeded by	Andrew Southcott
Senator for South Australia
In office 18 May 1974 – 16 November 1977
Preceded by	Nancy Buttfield
Succeeded by	Janine Haines
Treasurer of South Australia
In office 2 March 1970 – 2 June 1970
Premier	Steele Hall
Preceded by	Glen Pearson
Succeeded by	Don Dunstan
Leader of the Opposition in South Australia
In office 2 June 1970 – 15 March 1972
Deputy	Glen Pearson Robin Millhouse
Preceded by	Don Dunstan
Succeeded by	Bruce Eastick
In office 13 July 1966 – 17 April 1968
Preceded by	Sir Thomas Playford IV
Succeeded by	Don Dunstan
Leader of the Liberal and Country League
In office 13 July 1966 – 15 March 1972
Preceded by	Sir Thomas Playford IV
Succeeded by	Bruce Eastick
Member of the South Australian Parliament for Goyder
In office 10 March 1973 – 8 June 1974
Preceded by	James Ferguson
Succeeded by	David Boundy
Member of the South Australian Parliament for Gouger
In office 7 March 1959 – 10 March 1973
Preceded by	Rufus Goldney
Succeeded by	Keith Russack
Personal details
Born	Raymond Steele Hall (1928-11-30)30 November 1928 Balaklava, South Australia, Australia
Died	10 June 2024(2024-06-10) (aged 95)
Political party	Liberal and Country League (1959–1973) Liberal Movement (1973–1976) Liberal Party of Australia (1976–1996)
Spouses	Anne Fletcher ​ ​ (m. 1956; div. 1978)​ Joan Bullock ​ (m. 1978)​

Raymond Steele Hall (30 November 1928 – 10 June 2024) was an Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also served in the federal Parliament as a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977 and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996.

Hall was a state parliamentarian from 1959 to 1974 and served as Liberal and Country League leader from 1966 to 1972 and Premier from 1968 to 1970. He introduced electoral reform, removing the Playmander which favoured the Liberal and Country League, which contributed to his party's loss at the 1970 South Australian state election. In 1972 he founded the Liberal Movement, and resigned from the Liberal and Country League when the Liberal Movement split from the Liberal and Country League in 1973. He continued as a state parliamentarian until he resigned his seat in 1974 to be the Liberal Movement's lead Senate candidate at the 1974 Australian federal election.

Hall won a Senate seat for the Liberal Movement at both the 1974 and 1975 elections. After the Liberal Movement disbanded in 1976 he rejoined the Liberal Party, as it was now called in South Australia, and he resigned from the senate in 1977 to contest the seat of Hawker at the 1977 election, but was unsuccessful. In 1981 he won the seat of Boothby at the 1981 by-election, and remained the Liberal member for Boothby until his retirement in 1996.