Local
Staff streamlining, collection centre closures and shifting costs to clients are among a raft of measures detailed on a “hit list” of SA Pathology budget savings.
Labor frontbencher Penny Wong has confirmed she is backing Anthony Albanese to become the party’s next national leader.
News
Prime Minister Scott Morrison appears set to have the 76 seats he needs to govern in majority, but could be in line to score an extra two.
Local
State Labor leader Peter Malinauskas says his party’s federal election disaster should not be a deterrent from campaigning on “policy and ideas”, saying the ALP must better engage with business and avoid being seen as “anti-aspirational”.
Senior frontbenchers Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese are vying for the Labor leadership, with both conceding the party’s policy offerings need examining.
Activist group GetUp is celebrating the scalping of Tony Abbott but lamenting the failure to unseat senior Liberal Peter Dutton as it reviews its federal election campaign.
Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon says he will have a tilt at the Labor leadership if no other candidate will stand up for regional Australia and the coalmining industry.
A judge has ruled in favour of a US House of Representatives committee seeking President Donald Trump’s financial records, dealing an early setback to his legal battle with Congress.
Scott Morrison’s quiet revolution has upended Australian politics – and likely changed campaigning forever. And in SA, the collateral fallout could see the beginning of the end for two homegrown political parties, Tom Richardson writes.
Labor’s conceding defeat in the battle for the crucial Adelaide seat of Boothby has helped propel Scott Morrison and the re-elected Coalition to expected majority government following Saturday’s surprise election result.
Labor’s Nadia Clancy has conceded defeat in the battle for the Adelaide-based seat of Boothby with Liberal MP Nicolle Flint set to be returned to Canberra.
The federal election result gives pause for thought for victorious Coalition and defeated Labor alike. Should Scott Morrison borrow a few Opposition policies, and should Labor choose generational change over familiar faces when deciding on its new leader, asks Michelle Grattan.
The top brass of the federal Labor Party will meet for the first time since their election drubbing, in an effort to come to grips with the result.
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“Privatising Adelaide’s public bus services worked well – for a time – but what about the trains and trams? Former State Government public transport planner Tom Wilson details the questions that would need to be answered before privatisation is extended to rail.
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Opinion
South Australians’ voting in the Senate will have a profound impact on the shape of the next parliament, but confusion over new voting rules could lead to unintended consequences, writes Noah Schultz-Byard.
Politics
Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party appears to be offering $200 for people to hand out “How To Vote” cards on election day in an Adelaide seat.
News
Transport Minister Stephan Knoll is promising better public transport services despite deep cuts to the budget. In this interview, InDaily asks him how he plans to pull off this feat and the answer is: it’s complicated.
Local
SA Greens stalwart Mark Parnell will miss the next two parliamentary sitting weeks after what he calls “an unplanned hospital visit” ended in a quadruple-bypass heart surgery.
There’s always a fair bit of spin around budget week, but Tom Richardson can’t recall a previous occasion when the media celebrated a budget that wasn’t actually delivered. And Josh Frydenberg wasn’t the only one selling us a line this week…
Migration experts warn a new plan spruiked as driving population growth in South Australia is practically “problematic, risky and very costly” to local businesses because the government hasn’t got the policy settings right.
As wealth continues to gather in the bank accounts of the secure few, a swathe of the Australian middle-class is languishing in part-time work with stagnant pay, argues Malcolm King.
Supporters of the ABC are determined to help kick Scott Morrison’s government out of power at the upcoming federal election after it failed to restore funding cuts from the national broadcaster.
EXCLUSIVE | The Marshall Government is considering suspending a range of state laws for the operation of The Bend motorsport park at Tailem Bend, owned by the state’s biggest private company, Peregrine Corporation.
Local
South Australia has “dropped the ball” on securing funding for major infrastructure projects, according to a former top state bureaucrat newly appointed to the national Infrastructure Australia board.
News
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will present another round of personal income tax cuts and promise the first surplus in more than a decade when he hands down the federal budget tonight.
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