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Two months into the Marshall Government and there is a perception that the new administration is still unpacking its boxes and refurbishing its upholstery. For a party that's waited 16 years for the opportunity, writes Tom Richardson, it's time to cultivate a sense of urgency.
Alexander Downer sat down for an interview with two FBI agents in London in 2016 to discuss potential Russian meddling in the US presidential election, a sensational New York Times report alleges.
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UPDATED | The Marshall Government says it will be forced to undertake a scoping study for the privatisation of the state’s Motor Vehicle Registry and could be forced to repay more than $100 million to a multinational consortium because of a “secret deal” done by Labor when it sold off the Lands Titles Office.
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Nick Xenophon is unlikely to play a starring role in Rebekha Sharkie's bid to retain the South Australian seat of Mayo in an upcoming by-election.
The dumping of assistant minister Jane Prentice in a pre-selection ballot for the next federal election has sparked anger and frustration across all sides of politics.
The prospect of income tax cuts has divided voters but the prime minister's popularity still got a bounce in the wake of the federal budget, two polls show.
A former president of the Law Society says a proposal by the Attorney-General to open night courts and impose weekend sittings is a danger to the legal profession that wouldn’t solve problems with burgeoning case lists.
The state’s Local Government Association has revealed it spent almost $200,000 campaigning against the Liberals’ plan to cap council rates, denying the money was wasted because “six out of 10 South Australians voted for parties that opposed” the measure.
Night and weekend court hearings, split shifts and rolling court lists are among measures flagged by the Marshall Government to rein in delays in the justice system – although some have been met with scepticism by senior legal figures.
An alliance of Malaysian opposition parties led by the country's 92-year-old former authoritarian leader Mahathir Mohamad has won a parliamentary majority in a fiercely contested general election, ending the 60-year rule of the Malay-dominated National Front.
The federal budget once again avoids the hard work of structural change to Australia's tax system, writes Adelaide tax lawyer Andrea Michaels.
The Turnbull Government has defended funding cuts to the ABC the morning after delivering a budget focused on tax.
Xenophon-aligned crossbencher Rebekha Sharkie has sensationally resigned from federal parliament and will recontest her seat of Mayo in a by-election – likely facing off against Georgina Downer, whose father Alexander held the seat for 24 years - as the ongoing citizenship scandal dramatically escalated today.
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“Labor MPs have been privately warned not to fall into the divisions that blighted the Liberal Party in Opposition, as the ALP canvasses its members in a major review of its first losing campaign since 1997.”
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Premier Steven Marshall says he wants his Liberal Government to “under-promise and over-deliver” as he prepares to test his legislative agenda in a newly-configured parliament from next week.
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Greens MLC Tammy Franks says she would compel Adelaide city councillors to explain their claims about increasing violence on Hutt Street, using the powers of a parliamentary committee she hopes to set up next month.
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About 50 refugees are expected to leave Manus Island and Nauru in coming weeks to start new lives in the US, as Australia continues the slow process of emptying the immigration camps.
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South Australia’s salesman in London says the spectre of Brexit remains “a little bit scary” but the state is well-positioned to capitalise on stronger trade ties with Britain.
EXCLUSIVE | Recently returned former minister Leon Bignell will take a back seat as Labor unveils a very new-look Opposition next week, with a host of veterans - including current Deputy Leader John Rau and former minister Ian Hunter – vacating the frontbench and two first-term MPs and a former minister set for elevation, InDaily understands.
In the second and final part of his analysis of what went wrong with Nick Xenophon's tilt for state parliament, Haydon Manning - a quasi-insider in the SA Best campaign - reveals how the party leader had given up hope for his own election weeks out from polling day.
Incoming Upper House president Andrew McLachlan has agreed to step aside in two years for Liberal right-winger Terry Stephens in a ‘Kirribilli’-style agreement designed to avert a divisive internal ballot, InDaily can reveal.
UPDATED | State Treasurer Rob Lucas is warning the Federal Government he will strongly oppose any change to the current GST distribution deal.
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Australia's tax debate continues to be mired in uncertainty and piecemeal tinkering, writes Adelaide tax lawyer Andrea Michaels.
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The Pentecostal pastor who founded Family First concedes the party has run its race but he insists it has completed its mission as a curb on state Labor’s “left-wing” excesses.
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