Dan Cregan

Cregan grew up in South Australia and Western Australia, attending the University of Adelaide, where he was active in student politics, including as a director of the Adelaide University Union and as president of the Adelaide University Law Students' Society. He also rowed for the Adelaide University Boat Club First VIII.

Cregan received a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust bursary to study law at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

After graduating, Cregan was appointed judge's associate to John Doyle AC QC (Chief Justice of South Australia) and left that role to serve as an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development in Jakarta.

Later, Cregan joined the graduate program at Allens Linklaters where he became a senior associate in the firm's disputes and investigations team.

Cregan also held a number of board appointments with the Australian Property Institute and as a director of a family company.

Following the election of Steven Marshall's government in March 2018, Cregan was made chair of the South Australian Public Works Committee and was later appointed Premier's Advocate for Suicide Prevention and Community Resilience.

On 8 October 2021, Cregan announced he had resigned from the Liberal Party and would move to the crossbench with immediate effect. He said that the Marshall government had failed to plan for massive population growth in the Adelaide Hills.[1]

In a late-night sitting of parliament on 13 October 2021, five days after leaving the Liberal Party, Cregan won a secret ballot of members to be elected as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly.[3]