Opinion
The Turnbull Government's National Energy Guarantee is not a perfect solution, but it does offer a way forward to drive down emissions in the electricity sector and provide more reliable supply, writes the Grattan Institute's David Blowers.
Local
The head of the state’s urban renewal authority has pre-empted what looms as a major investment in a new contemporary gallery on the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site, warning that a planned luxury hotel would be untenable without the art showcase as the precinct’s centrepiece.
News
Household power bills would fall by an average $110 to $115 a year from 2020 under what Malcolm Turnbull has described as a "game-changing" plan.
The SA Liberal Party has promised to upgrade cardiac services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, as it seeks to bolster its health credentials ahead of the March state election.
South Australian-based shipbuilder ASC has thrown down the gauntlet to the Commonwealth Government over the continued “depletion” of its Adelaide workforce, with chairman Bruce Carter warning shipbuilding sovereignty will be compromised by an approach that “hopes for the best” while driving down skilled capacity.
Keith Hamilton has worked at Holden for 36 years. Here he gives us a personal insight into what the closure really means for its workers, and says he wants to be there this week - to switch off the lights.
South Australia's public servants have agreed to work bans across government departments, joining doctors and hospital staff in a "perfect storm" of industrial action - unless the State Government accepts their claims.
If everything goes according to plan for Australia’s two most prominent political outsiders, looming elections in Queensland and South Australia could stand as joint watersheds in the decline of Australia’s two-party hegemony.
Labor says Tony Abbott is calling the shots on the Federal Government's energy policy, after the former prime minister used a speech in London to applaud scepticism about climate change.
Premier Jay Weatherill and Liberal counterpart Steven Marshall are sending opposite signals on the threat posed by Nick Xenophon's surprise re-entry into state politics.
The Xenophon candidate in the key seat of Waite is a sustainable energy expert who accepts that he isn't at one with his party leader on every aspect of electricity policy.
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“Conservative senator Cory Bernardi has defended targeting millions of homes with robo-calls urging people to vote 'no' in the same-sex marriage postal survey, but he has simultaneously attacked as an invasion of privacy bulk text messages sent out by marriage equality advocates.”
News
New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English says it could take weeks for the country to form a new government after a weekend general election left a nationalist minor party in the role of kingmaker.
Politics
Malcolm Turnbull's Coalition government has slipped to another low, now trailing Labor by eight points in the latest Newspoll.
Opinion
The Federal Government is looking desperate in its public bashing of energy company AGL, writes Michelle Grattan.
Politics
Labor is stepping up its presence in the south-east as it seeks to destabilise the Liberals’ chances of holding the newly-vulnerable seat of Mount Gambier, but incumbent Troy Bell says the move “demonstrates the desperation of a party that will do and say anything to stay in power” - and hasn't ruled out re-contesting the seat himself.
The Turnbull government has clawed back some ground on Labor in the latest Newspoll, while Malcolm Turnbull is still the preferred prime minister.
The state’s public sector union has hit back at Business SA as “rabid” and “out-of-touch” after the chamber of commerce weighed into its pay dispute with the Weatherill Government.
Former Labor maverick Frances Bedford has given the strongest indication yet that she intends to contest the March 2018 state election as an independent, holding a series of public ‘meet and greets’ in Health Minister Jack Snelling’s seat of Playford.
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The state’s public service union says it’s gearing up to “go to war” with the Weatherill Government only months out from the next election after efforts to renegotiate its members’ pay and conditions have hit a wall.
Politics
Voters will find out later this week whether the federal parliament will get an extra member overall - but South Australia's representation could fall to its lowest level since the 1950s.
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