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The Marshall Government has been told to claw back $15 million it set aside to fund open ICAC hearings after a series of amendments were passed by parliament last night that appear to effectively kill off any hope of public inquiries ever taking place.
SPECIAL REPORT | Former Premier Jay Weatherill may have retired from politics, but he hasn’t left democracy behind.
Opinion
Steven Marshall has been basking in positive poll figures to mark his first year in office – but are they really that good?
Local
Labor is set to spring a federal election surprise, anointing a 23-year-old cleanskin candidate to take on incumbent Rebekha Sharkie and high-profile Liberal Georgina Downer in Mayo, InDaily has confirmed.
Premier Steven Marshall has emphatically ruled out reshuffling his cabinet this year, saying he is more concerned with maintaining “collective responsibility” than tweaking ministerial personnel.
ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander has lobbied crossbench MPs against backing a Government Bill to allow public maladministration hearings, prompting independent John Darley to seek major changes to the proposed laws.
EXCLUSIVE | The state’s Independent Commission Against Corruption could have its wings clipped by parliament, with a wide-ranging inquiry to be launched after Ombudsman Wayne Lines highlighted a demarcation dispute over ICAC’s role.
South Australia has lost its mantle as the nation’s autonomous vehicles hub, with Australia’s peak industry advisory group shifting its city-based Centre of Excellence and annual world driverless car summit to Sydney.
In today’s Notes on Adelaide, the Marshall Government tunes up its corporate entertaining at the V8 race, the sting in the tale of the DPP’s statement on Vickie Chapman, and the strange reality behind the latest Adelaide Oval hotel politicking.
Malcolm Turnbull has again dumped on his former Liberal colleagues for ousting him as prime minister, inflicting a fresh round of headaches ahead of the next election.
The operator of the government-owned Entertainment Centre and Coopers Stadium will meet with Infrastructure SA tomorrow to discuss “future infrastructure needs” as it progresses plans to build a major new city arena over the Adelaide railyards – which would prompt the sell-off of its existing assets.
A former state Liberal candidate is almost certain to nominate for the prized seat of Sturt, as the party’s conservative faction seeks to ruin the carefully stage-managed handover of Christopher Pyne’s seat to his moderate faction protégé James Stevens.
The Marshall Government’s approach to taxes and services is all too familiar, writes Noah Schultz-Byard.
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“Liberal insiders say veteran moderate powerbroker Christopher Pyne must clarify his future within days, amid “white hot” speculation he will not recontest his safe South Australian seat of Sturt at the looming federal election.
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Local
EXCLUSIVE | A state government compensation scheme for ‘catastrophically injured’ motorists has been embroiled in a political tug of war, after Rob Lucas sought to shift its management under direct Treasury control.
News
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says ramping up his attack on the Opposition’s approach to border protection was never about winning votes, as a new poll shows Labor would win an election if it were held today.
News
Scientists have found a lack of water in the Darling River system – due to the drought and excess use by irrigators – led to the death of millions of fish.
News
Australian Federal Police believe evidence may have been destroyed in relation to media leaks about union raids.
Don Dunstan’s career deserves celebration but we don’t need to give him unnuanced and sole credit for initiatives that were shared projects, writes Bannon-era Attorney-General Chris Sumner in this riposte to one of his Labor predecessors.
Anti-corruption commissioner Bruce Lander will make a last-ditch bid to persuade parliament not to pass a Bill allowing public maladministration hearings, with both the Government and Opposition seeking changes he argues will make the legislation unworkable.
Tech giants have thrown their support behind a submission to limit the Federal Government’s controversial encryption bill which they say will “cannibalise” the industry’s growth.
Senator Michaelia Cash’s chief of staff Ben Davies was the source of a controversial leak to media about imminent police raids at Australian Workers’ Union offices.
Local
EXCLUSIVE | Public officers facing maladministration allegations would have the right to refuse to give evidence to an ICAC investigation under proposed Labor amendments to a contentious Bill designed to deliver greater transparency to South Australia’s anti-corruption watchdog.
National
The so-called “palace letters” between the Queen and the former Governor-General who played a crucial role in Gough Whitlam’s dismissal will remain secret in what a historian has called a “national humiliation”.
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