Lynn Arnold, as South Australia premier 1992-93, faces State Bank backlash that finishes 11 years of Labor rule

South Australian premier Lynn Arnold was later ordained into the Anglican priesthood in 2014.

Lynn Arnold, as South Australia premier in 1992-93, was left to face the backlash of State Bank collapse that ended ll years of Labor government with the 1993 election landslide loss.

As member for Salisbury (later Ramsay and Taylor), Arnold entered parliament and became minister for education, tertiary education, agriculture and state development in John Bannon’s government from 1982.

He was elected Labor leader and premier when Bannon resigned after the $3.2 billion State Bank collapse. Labor lost two stronghold seats, Hindmarsh and Grey, in the 1993 federal election and in the December state poll it suffered a 14-seat swing against and managed only 39% of the vote.

A year after the election, Arnold resigned as Labor leader, and left politics. He was succeeded as Labor leader by his deputy Mike Rann.

In 2003, Arnold received a Ph.D. in sociology from Adelaide University. His thesis was based on the language of Asturianu (also known as Bable), spoken in northern Spain.

Dr Arnold became chief executive of the humanitarian organisation World Vision Australia from 1997 until 2003. In 2003, he was appointed regional vice president of World Vision International for the Asia Pacific, based in Bangkok.

In 2006, he went on to become senior director (board development and peer review) for World Vision International.

He was chief executive of Anglicare SA in 2007-08 before moving towards Anglican priesthood and being ordained deacon in Adelaide in 2013. In 2014, Dr Arnold was ordained as a priest by the archbishop of Adelaide.