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The South Australian Liberal Party says it’s aware that its newly-hired fundraising director made a controversial appearance at an anti-corruption hearing in Victoria last month, at which a secret recording was played of her offering a developer access to top-ranking MPs.
Premier Steven Marshall’s most senior media adviser, a former Northern Territory politician and the immediate past president of the Local Government Association are among a glut of hopefuls vying for Liberal preselection after the party closed nominations in four winnable seats.
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The University of Adelaide says it has yet to receive a formal notice from the State Government of its intention to acquire land and bulldoze the historic Urrbrae gatehouse for an intersection upgrade, as it vows to “pursue its legal rights” to stop the takeover and demolition.
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Factional tensions are brewing in the state Labor party, with the Left considering dumping one of its highest office-holders ahead of this year’s state convention as the faction looks to bolster its influence.
The South Australian Greens are hopeful of becoming the state’s “third political force” and holding the balance of power in the Upper House, after electing a young environmental campaigner as their number two Legislative Council candidate for next year’s state election.
As dramatic scenes played out in the US Capitol, Democrats have won both Georgia Senate seats – and with them, the US Senate majority – serving President Donald Trump a stunning defeat in his last days in office while dramatically improving the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s progressive agenda.
One of state parliament’s four crossbenchers has railed against the mandated four-yearly redistribution of electoral boundaries, saying a “tiny sliver” of a single suburb is all that’s left of the seat she first won more than 20 years ago.
Paramedics say they’ve been “abandoned” by the Health Minister and are calling on him to “stand up to” the Treasurer to demand more money to fix ramping, after yet another day of ambulances and patients being forced into lengthy waits outside hospital emergency departments.
Adelaide City Councillor and former Senator Robert Simms has been elected the Greens candidate for a winnable state Upper House seat, after long-time Legislative Councillor Mark Parnell announced his retirement.
A Marshall Government proposal to COVID-test Australian citizens returning from overseas before they board their flights has been shot down by national cabinet at a meeting in Canberra today.
Premier Steven Marshall has called on his Western Australian counterpart to open his state’s borders to South Australians amid a skirmish over Mark McGowan’s no-show for tomorrow’s national cabinet meeting in Canberra.
The State Government is under mounting pressure to reverse a decision to bulldoze an historic gatehouse at Urrbrae, with two of its own MPs saying “it’s heritage-listed for a reason” and “worthy of further consideration to either keep or restore”.
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“Health authorities say they “may never know” how COVID-19 escaped an Adelaide medi-hotel – sparking the Parafield cluster and last week’s statewide lockdown – as InDaily can reveal an “urgent” call for Government staff to volunteer in the stretched quarantine facilities.
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SA Labor is reeling from a spectacular own-goal, with powerbrokers contemplating re-doing a recent preselection and a former frontbencher finding himself mired in electoral limbo after an adverse boundary re-draw.
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More members of state parliament have been forced to pay back misclaimed expenses, Premier Steven Marshall has conceded.
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Joe Biden is edging closer to becoming the 46th President of the United States, with the Democratic challenger netting the crucial swing state of Wisconsin while the Trump campaign files lawsuits to contest the counting of mail-in ballots in several key swing states.
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The head of Bank SA, Nick Reade, will become the state’s most powerful bureaucrat when he takes the reins at the Department of Premier and Cabinet, with Steven Marshall’s hand-picked CEO Jim McDowell set to return to his “natural habitat” in the private sector – after being effectively headhunted by the Government’s own Chief Entrepreneur.
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have left the White House for a long day of campaigning in separate battleground states while Joe Biden is targeting a state Democrats haven’t won in nearly three decades.
The State Government and business leaders are urging South Australian workplaces not to cancel major functions and Christmas parties, and to make the shift from remote working back to the CBD in a bid to bolster the broader economy.
For a low-key contest to decide four relatively low-profile parliamentary appointments, Labor’s internal Legislative Council ballot is generating a level of electioneering generally reserved for state election campaigns.
The Deputy Chief Medical Officer will conduct an urgent review into the deaths of four babies at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in the past month – linked to a lack of paediatric cardiac services – as a leaked report reveals authorities were warned of the risks more than a year ago.
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The Marshall Government commissioned multiple investigations into the leaking of “confidential information” about its $2.14 billion rail operations privatisation, prompting one unsuccessful bidder to demand the procurement process be halted – just days before it was awarded to a rival firm.
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The beaten candidate for the state Liberal presidency is weighing up whether to nominate for the prized seat of Frome at the 2022 state election, after the moderate faction completed its takeover of the party at the weekend’s AGM.
