Nick McBride

Nick McBride
MP
Member of the South Australian House of Assembly
for MacKillop
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 March 2018
Preceded byMitch Williams
Personal details
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		Liberal (until 2023)
EducationKingston Area School, Prince Alfred College
OccupationGrazier
Websitewww.nickmcbride.com.au

Philip Nicholas McBride is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2018 state election, representing MacKillop.[1]

McBride, a grazier, was president of the Grassland Society of South Australia in 2017.[2]

His great-grandfather was Sir Philip McBride, a founding member of the Liberal Party of Australia and Minister for Defence in the Menzies Government.

McBride was a member of the Liberal Party until 5 July 2023, when he announced that he was quitting the party to sit as an independent in the House of Assembly. He cited “dark forces” and "divisive factionalism" within the South Australia Liberal Party as the reason for his decision,[3][4] generally considered to be a reference to the SA Liberal’s increasingly right-wing positions, and the dramatic increase of conservative Pentecostal party members.[5]

  1. ^ "Philip (Nick) Nicholas McBride". Members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  2. ^ Green, Antony (2018). "MacKillop - SA Election 2018". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  3. ^ "MacKillop MP Nick McBride quits SA Liberal Party". The Advertiser. 5 July 2023.
  4. ^ "The factional feud prompting claims the SA Liberals are 'at war with themselves'". ABC News. 15 July 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  5. ^ "'Dark forces': Liberal factional tensions erupt as MP turns independent - InDaily". 6 July 2023.