Zoe Bettison

Zoe Lee Bettison is an Australian politician who has served as a member of the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Ramsay representing South Australian Labor since the 2012 Ramsay by-election.

Bettison is the current Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the South Australian House of Assembly and previously served as the Minister for Tourism and Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the First Malinauskas ministry from 2022 to 2026. She has also previously served in other ministerial roles in the Weatherill ministry between 2014 and 2018.

Career Bettison

She was formerly a union official for the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, and was a director of political lobbying firm Hawker Britton.

After Labor won the 2022 election, Bettison was appointed as Minister for Tourism and Minister for Cultural Affairs in the Malinauskas ministry.

On 2 September 2022, as Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Bettison said that there would be a Parliamentary inquiry into "neo-Nazi symbols, the activities of extremist groups, discrimination faced by targeted groups and the prohibition on symbols in other states". This was partly prompted by the activities of a group of neo-Nazis who had posted photographs of themselves giving fascist salutes outside the Adelaide Holocaust Museum, and concerns had been raised about the activities of groups such as the National Socialist Network in South Australia.