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SA Liberals are in open conflict over the state executive’s bombshell decision to eject more than 100 members recruited from Evangelical Christian communities – and investigate hundreds more – with a showdown expected when the party’s state council meets this week.
UPDATED | The SA Liberal Party has moved to crack down on hundreds of new members recruited from conservative Pentecostal Church communities, cancelling scores of memberships and effectively issuing ‘show cause’ notices to hundreds more.
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Former Premier Jay Weatherill says social policy is “the new province for economic reform”, arguing the Labor Party would find federal success if it committed “to make Australia the best place in the world to be a parent, and the best place in the world to grow up”.
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In today’s Notes On Adelaide: who’s who on Labor’s hot mess of a website, things may or may not be coming up roses for SA Tourism, and the Adelaide Football Club’s still coming to grips with this democracy thing.
Former Family First senator Bob Day says the collapse of the conservative minor party has hastened an SA Liberal lurch “to the Left”, as he vows to campaign against moderate Marshall Government MPs in key marginal seats.
An Apostolic Pentecostal pastor who seized control of the branch of one of the state’s most marginal Liberal seats shortly after joining the party says she became a member because it is the “strongest and best party to lead us into the future”.
Liberal exiles Sam Duluk and Fraser Ellis have both attended meetings of their local branches this week – despite Premier Steven Marshall insisting they are not party members – as backers insist they want them to remain as their MPs.
EXCLUSIVE | Adelaide Pentecostal parishioners have been told it is their “mission” to join political parties so they can shape policy and preselections – amid claims senior Liberals are actively recruiting from their ranks – with a Marshall Government minister telling a local congregation to rail against the separation of church and state.
Police investigating an alleged assault by Liberal exile Sam Duluk were not aware of a photograph featuring the Waite MP with his accuser, SA Best MLC Connie Bonaros, until three weeks ago, a court has been told.
SA Best MLC Connie Bonaros told a staffer she did not want a photograph of her at a Parliament House Christmas party with Sam Duluk, the MP she later accused of assault, to “see the light of day”, a court has heard.
UPDATED | Liberal exile Sam Duluk appeared intoxicated, was drinking gin straight from the bottle and poured ice down the front of SA Best MLC Connie Bonaros’s dress at a 2019 Parliament House Christmas party before he allegedly assaulted her, a court has heard.
The state’s anti-corruption watchdog this week met with senior SA Health bureaucrats, including CEO Chris McGowan, as the troubled agency attempts to overturn a culture found to be “riddled with maladministration”.
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“UPDATED | Premier Steven Marshall went back on an explicit undertaking to the Liberal party-room when he fast-tracked debate on proposed euthanasia laws, insiders have claimed.
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The Marshall Government has been forced to extend its consultation on the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital, after clinicians refused to sign off on key design plans for the build, citing inadequate consultation and a lack of information about the proposed services.
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EXCLUSIVE | Former Labor MP Annabel Digance blocked an ALP colleague from publicly condemning an election flyer widely denounced as racist – the same flyer she later claimed she had wanted to apologise for but was instructed to “shut up” by party officials.
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Labor says it will refer to the State Ombudsman claims a hoax email address set up to apply for job opportunities was instead sent Liberal Party propaganda – but the Government has questioned the legitimacy of the claim.
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Adelaide City councillor Robert Simms has once again resigned and forced a by-election at Town Hall – this time to fill retiring Greens MLC Mark Parnell’s state Upper House seat – after he previously quit the council in 2015 to replace Parnell’s wife in the Senate.
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UPDATED 5PM | Unions have South Australia’s Centre Alliance in their sights, with an ACTU poll suggesting falling support for federal Rebekha Sharkie in her Adelaide Hills seat of Mayo – as she today took aim at her senate colleague over his support for the Government’s contentious workplace reforms.
Attorney-General and deputy Premier Vickie Chapman says she has been the target of numerous “indecent” comments about her appearance and performance, saying she could “spend an entire afternoon” recounting “disgusting” criticism received inside Parliament House.
A much-hyped bid to ban political campaign posters from public streets has been dramatically defeated in a parliamentary “ambush”, but opponents are blaming the Marshall Government for politicising crucial electoral reform legislation.
The Premier denies calling the man he blamed for sending the state into lockdown a ‘liar’. It’s a claim worth exploring, writes Tom Richardson.
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EXCLUSIVE | Laws designed to save heritage-listed buildings, including the Urrbrae Gatehouse, from the Government’s “wrecking-ball” are set to be rushed through state parliament, as three ex-Liberal crossbenchers speak out about their newfound political sway.
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Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter has identified himself as the minister accused of raping an Adelaide teenager more than 30 years ago, declaring he is innocent and won’t step down but will take a leave of absence to seek help for his own mental health.
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