State Memorial Service for the Honourable Nick Bolkus

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Vale The Honourable Nick Bolkus 1950 - 2025

A State Memorial Service for the Honourable Nick Bolkus will take place at 11.00 am on Thursday 22 January 2026 in the Allan Scott Auditorium, Hawke Building, Adelaide University, 55 North Terrace, Adelaide.

In 1980, Mr Bolkus was elected to Federal Parliament as a senator for South Australia. He later served as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments. From 1988 to 1996, Mr Bolkus held the following appointments:

  • Minister for Consumer Affairs
  • Minister Assisting the Treasurer for Prices
  • Minister for Administrative Services
  • Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs
  • Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Multicultural Affairs

Mr Bolkus resigned from politics in 2005.

Family, friends, representatives of organisations and members of the public are welcome to attend the State Memorial Service. Members of the public will be shown to seating in order of arrival until the venue reaches capacity.

Doors will open at 9.30 am. Attendees are kindly requested to be seated by 10.30 am. Ushers will be on hand to assist with seating.

If you wish to attend, please register by Monday 19 January.

Enquiries can be directed to the Protocol and International Visits Branch, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra on (02) 6271 6129 or email StateMemorial@pmc.gov.au

The State Memorial Service will be livestreamed from 11.00 am (ACDT).

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Stroke Foundation or the Heart Foundation.

Online condolences can be made below.

The privacy and security of your personal information is important to us, and is protected by law.

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (the Department) is collecting your personal information to provide condolence messages in a book to the family of the Honourable Nick Bolkus.

Providing the requested information is voluntary. If you choose not to provide us with your information we will not be able to pass your message onto the family.

For the same purpose, we will provide this information to a third-party supplier, Elite Bookbinding, for the purposes of the binding the condolence messages into a book to be given to the family of  
Mr Bolkus.

The Department will not use or disclose the information collected from you, other than for the purposes described above, unless you have provided consent for us to do this, or we are authorised or required to do so by law.

The Department’s Privacy Policy explains how the Department handles and protects the information provided by you. Our Privacy Policy also explains how you can request access to, or correct the personal information we hold about you, and who to contact if you have a privacy enquiry or complaint. 

If you require a copy of our Privacy Policy contact the Privacy Officer at privacy@pmc.gov.au.