Kyam Maher

Kyam Joseph Maher is an Australian politician and lawyer who has been Deputy Premier of South Australia since 19 September 2025. He has also been Attorney-General of South Australia, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, and the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council since March 2022, and continues to hold these roles after promotion to deputy premier in the September 2025 Cabinet reshuffle. He is also Special Minister of State (holding responsibility for electoral services) since January 2025. Maher is the first ever Indigenous Australian person to serve as Attorney-General, and also the first as Deputy Premier in South Australia.

He was appointed to a casual vacancy in the South Australian Legislative Council for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party on 17 October 2012. He previously served in the Cabinet of South Australia between 2015 and 2018 and was the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council between 2016 and 2018.