Adam Giles

Adam Giles
Giles in 2015
10th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
In office
14 March 2013 – 31 August 2016
DeputyDave Tollner
Peter Chandler
Willem Westra van Holthe
Peter Styles
AdministratorSally Thomas
John Hardy
Preceded byTerry Mills
Succeeded byMichael Gunner
Leader of the Country Liberal Party
In office
14 March 2013 – 2 September 2016
DeputyDave Tollner (2013–14)
Peter Chandler (2014–15)
Willem Westra van Holthe (2015–2016)
Peter Styles (2016)
Preceded byTerry Mills
Succeeded byGary Higgins
Member of the Northern Territory Parliament
for Braitling
In office
9 August 2008 – 27 August 2016
Preceded byLoraine Braham
Succeeded byDale Wakefield
Personal details
Born
Adam Graham Romer

(1973-04-10) 10 April 1973 (age 51)
Springwood, New South Wales, Australia
Political partyCountry Liberal Party
ResidenceAlice Springs
CabinetGiles Ministry

Adam Graham Giles (né Romer; born 10 April 1973[1]) is an Australian former politician and former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (2013–2016) as well as the former leader of the Country Liberal Party (CLP) in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. Giles is the first Indigenous Australian to serve as a head of government in Australia.

Giles became a CLP member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly seat of Braitling at the 2008 election. The Terry Mills-led CLP opposition defeated the Paul Henderson-led Labor government at the 2012 election, winning 16 of 25 seats. Giles was elected by the CLP party room to replace Mills as Chief Minister and CLP leader less than a year later at the 2013 CLP leadership ballot. Giles was defeated at the 2015 CLP leadership ballot but managed to survive in the aftermath. Multiple defections saw the CLP reduced to minority government a few months later. At the 2016 election on 27 August, his government was heavily defeated by the Labor Party, suffering the worst defeat of a sitting government in Territory history. Giles also lost his seat of Braitling to Labor, becoming the second sitting head of government in the Northern Territory to lose his own seat.[2]

After leaving politics, Giles has hosted a Sunday night current affairs program, The Adam Giles Show, on Sky News Australia since May 2018. He was the most recent Chief Minister from the Country Liberal Party until the 2024 election.

  1. ^ "Master's apprentice gets lessons in campaigning". The Canberra Times. 24 September 2004. Mr Giles was born on April 10, 1973
  2. ^ "2016 Election Result". Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.