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UPDATED | City councillor and former senator Robert Simms has confirmed his intent to stand for state parliament, seeking the Greens’ nomination to replace Mark Parnell – but the retiring veteran’s longtime staffer has also entered the succession race.
Steven Marshall won government promising to implement a Strong Plan for Real Change. But events of this week, as Tom Richardson writes, suggest the new mantra should be a Strong Plan for No Change Whatsoever.
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EXCLUSIVE | One of the Marshall Government’s most senior ministers could face off against veteran independent Geoff Brock at the next state election, under a proposal to merge two regional seats being strongly considered by the state’s boundaries commission.
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EXCLUSIVE | The SA Greens are expecting a rush of hopefuls for the party’s winnable state Upper House seat, after long-time Legislative Councillor Mark Parnell today declared he would not contest the next election.
EXCLUSIVE | A radical shake-up of South Australia’s electoral system – that would see preferential voting sidelined – is being considered among a raft of changes, with a bill expected to be introduced to parliament within weeks, InDaily understands.
Labor says it will ask police to investigate whether any South Australian MPs have breached parliamentary accommodation allowance protocols and has called on Upper House president Terry Stephens to stand aside pending any inquiry.
The Transport Minister may talk up “bold reforms” but, argues Tom Richardson, his failure to sell either the concept or the detail is causing his government major headaches.
Prominent Adelaide lawyer Morry Bailes has stepped aside as managing partner of leading general practice firm Tindall Gask Bentley, with Liberal insiders expecting him to nominate to replace John Olsen as state party president later this year.
Saturday’s AFL Showdown at Adelaide Oval “would have lost tens of thousands of dollars” if not for the Commonwealth JobKeeper subsidy, according to the Adelaide Venue Management Corporation, which says it would be “unviable and irresponsible” for it to stage similar events – a decision it concedes will cost event staff jobs.
UPDATED | The Liberal party-room is approaching civil war over Transport Minister Stephan Knoll’s plan to scrap hundreds of bus stops and overhaul many routes – as it emerged the vast majority of weekend after-midnight services are set to be axed.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has shrugged off South Australia’s refusal to lift its eastern border restrictions before next month’s school holiday period, saying, “Why would you want to go there?”
UPDATED | South Australia will open its borders to arrivals from Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory from midnight – but none of those jurisdictions are reciprocating – while coronavirus restrictions will be further relaxed on public gatherings and some fitness classes after a meeting of state authorities this morning.
It’s becoming a well-worn refrain in South Australia that it’s much harder to lift coronavirus restrictions than impose them. Which, writes Tom Richardson, might explain why we’re doing a much worse job of it.
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“EXCLUSIVE | South Australia’s state of emergency declaration will be extended for at least a further month, InDaily can reveal – prompting a backlash from one of the state’s most prominent business figures, who says the Marshall Government needs to take control of reopening the economy.
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Politically and legally, Steven Marshall’s coronavirus response has helped create two of the most powerful bureaucrats in South Australian history, writes Tom Richardson. But has the time come for the Premier to reclaim his authority?
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UPDATED | The Marshall Government has spectacularly backflipped on its “arbitrary decision” to exclude a range of licensed venues from opening their doors to diners from today, broadening its criteria for relaxing coronavirus restrictions to any venue that can offer sit-down dining in an eleventh-hour move.
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The state Liberal party-room has met in person for the first time since the imposition of coronavirus restrictions – and immediately resumed hostilities over the Marshall Government’s controversial mining legislation, with backbenchers slamming an attempt to “kill off” a push for an independent review.
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SA Labor has proposed scrapping a regional seat to address “a structural imbalance in favour of the Liberal Party”, which it argues handed the Marshall Government a bigger election advantage “than was intended or predicted” – as both major parties make their pitch for pole position at the 2022 poll.
South Australia’s post-COVID-19 unemployment rate could spiral to almost 11 per cent within a year, while the gross state product is predicted to fall almost seven per cent, according to grim economic tidings as Treasurer Rob Lucas warns of “a world of pain” ahead.
US Senator Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, making Joe Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge President Donald Trump in November’s election.
The outgoing chief of SA’s Innovation and Skills agency has been handpicked for a new Premier’s Department role overseeing “public sector performance and reform”, and will help shape the state’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Treasurer Rob Lucas admits colleagues have urged him to rethink his retirement plans as the state faces one of its most challenging and prolonged economic recoveries, but is adamant he’ll still bow out at the next election.
EXCLUSIVE | Rent increases will be outlawed in SA for up to six months, with the Police Commissioner being handed unprecedented new powers under draft legislation being prepared by the Marshall Government.
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UPDATED 4PM | The election of a new MP to the SA parliament is in limbo after the Liberal Party was last night forced to cancel a state council ballot amid coronavirus fears, as Treasurer Rob Lucas today confirmed his next two budgets are in tatters after a $2 billion GST downgrade.
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UPDATED | Sporting, cultural and religious events will face major upheaval with all “non-essential gatherings” of more than 500 people set to be banned from Monday, as the federal and state governments make a dramatic bid to limit the spread of the coronavirus in Australia.
