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The SA Government has opted against reimposing hard border restrictions on the eastern states – despite conceding it was advised to do so by the state’s chief public health officer – but will impose new “speed bumps” on people entering South Australia.
Opinion
The Marshall Government insists this week’s COVID spike is an unremarkable impact of the border re-opening. But it needs to do more to stem a tide of anxiety, writes Tom Richardson.
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South Australia’s governing institutions have been hit by the state’s first community transmission of COVID-19 since borders reopened last week, with parliament shut down this morning and an administrator to take the place of the SA Governor who is in isolation after a negative test.
UPDATED | A police cadet applicant who was given preferential treatment – as part of a recruitment process later investigated by ICAC – was a “family member” of the state’s most senior police officer, Commissioner Grant Stevens, state parliament has been told.
The state’s top cop is on a collision course with a parliamentary inquiry, which has handed down a series of recommendations for fundamental changes to the way police and ICAC investigations are conducted.
UPDATED | Embattled former Deputy Premier Vickie Chapman has been banned from parliament for six days as the dramatic fallout from this month’s vote of no confidence escalated today, with the Government again losing a crucial vote on the House of Assembly floor.
The Adelaide Crows director at odds with the club’s COVID vaccine mandate believes “we shouldn’t give up hard fought-for freedoms to force vaccines on the healthy”, who he argues have more chance of dying from “normal flu” – and has railed against government measures “disintegrating” small business.
