Bruce Eastick

Parliament Eastick was elected to the House of Assembly for Light, based on Gawler, in 1970. Two years later, after Steele Hall resigned as LCL leader, the party elected Eastick as his successor.

Eastick led his party to the 1973 and 1975 elections, losing both to the Don Dunstan-led South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party. His term as leader saw the LCL, the state's main conservative party since 1932, formally rename itself as the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia, although a separate state Country Party had been re-formed in 1963. He was thus the only LCL leader to have never served as Premier of South Australia.

Eastick was Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly when his successor as South Australia Liberal leader, David Tonkin, was premier from 1979 to 1982.

Death Eastick died on 5 December 2025 at the age of 98.

Honours

In 1996, Eastick was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of his "service to the South Australian Parliament, local government and the community".

Eastick was the eldest son of Sir Tom Eastick.