Giuseppe "Joe" Scalzi (born 4 July 1951) is a former Australian politician.
He was a Liberal Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1993 and 2006, representing the electorate of Hartley.
In 1993, he was elected amidst the Liberal landslide victory that year,[1] which saw Dean Brown become Premier.
Joe Scalzi was a member of the public works committee that in 2001, made the deeply unpopular decision to sell the Payneham Civic Centre to JPMorgan Chase[2] whereupon it was demolished and the land was used as the site for offices for financial services despite protests by residents.
[7] Scalzi lost his seat in the 2006 election landslide to the ALP,[1] giving his Labor opponent Grace Portolesi a 4.6 percent margin.