News
One of the founding members of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation says the party’s first South Australian parliamentarian has ‘Greens values’ that could prompt a split from the party, robbing One Nation voters of “genuine representation” in the state.
The Australian Electoral Commission has urgently expanded telephone voting after concerns thousands of people infected with COVID-19 this week would not be able to vote on Saturday after missing a postal vote deadline.
Politics
Former Liberal deputy premier Vickie Chapman has used her final speech to State Parliament to call for the reunification of South Australia and Northern Territory.
Notes on Adelaide
In a new Notes On Adelaide column, a federal election candidate coy on a state seat consolation prize, more intrigue around One Nation’s new MP, and Liberal leader David Speirs takes advice mid-media conference.
A Senate committee into Australia’s sovereign shipbuilding capability says the nation’s largest naval projects are “seriously adrift” and need urgent action to keep afloat.
One Nation’s first SA MLC has told parliament that immigration has “enriched” the nation’s culture and skill base, defending “people’s right to maintain their culture and belief practices in Australia”.
Proposed changes to South Australia’s COVID-19 management are set to pass the Upper House as early as this week after the Malinauskas Government won over the crossbench in exchange for a series of oversight measures.
Labor’s hopeful for SA’s marginal seat of Boothby says the Opposition backs offshore asylum seeker processing but “we separate that from offshore detention”, while the Liberal candidate has backed an increase in Australia’s refugee intake, at a forum ahead of this week’s federal poll.
In today’s Notes On Adelaide, with polling day looming the campaign pitches are getting… weirder – with one prominent South Australian hopeful flat out just trying to explain how to vote for him; while the Libs turn their focus from Boothby to Sturt.
Federal Labor says it will co-fund a $400 million upgrade of the Flinders Medical Centre if it wins this month’s federal election.
Last year, Tom Richardson argued that the then-Attorney-General and Deputy Premier had a “textbook” clear case of perceived conflict of interest in relation to her decision to veto a $40 million timber port. This week the state’s Ombudsman disagreed, completely.
Independent women are hoping to shake up this year’s federal election – and the political establishment is in a state of near panic.
Opposition Leader David Speirs concedes he believed there was a potential perceived conflict of interest around Vickie Chapman’s decision to veto a major Kangaroo Island timber port, before an Ombudsman’s report ruled otherwise – in a decision that a former Attorney-General today warned would have “far-reaching adverse implications for integrity in government”.
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“Leading today’s news round-up, a leaked opinion suggests the US Supreme Court will overturn the historic Roe v Wade decision which legalised abortion.
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News
David Speirs is expected to miss his parliamentary debut as state opposition leader next week after testing positive to COVID-19.
National
Scott Morrison is defending his government’s economic management against the backdrop of soaring inflation and a high chance the Reserve Bank will start raising interest rates from next week.
Opinion
There was something telling about David Speirs’ battle-cry, on announcing his candidacy to lead the wilderness-flung Opposition, that it was time to end the scourge of “factional dynasties” in the SA Liberal Party.
News
Former Environment Minister David Speirs says he wants to jettison the “factional dynasties” and “wealthy pastoralists” that have run the SA Liberal Party, insisting he can lead the divided Opposition to victory in four years’ time – and aligning himself with “the Right of the Labor Party” on social issues.
The state’s most senior bureaucrat headlines a list of high-profile departures as the new Labor Government today set about on a major public service shake-up that will see new leadership in key portfolios, including Health, Transport, Education, Treasury and the Premier’s Department.
The Adelaide Football Club will meet with the State Government in coming days, after Labor leader Peter Malinauskas vowed to review the criteria under which the Crows were denied the chance to develop a new club headquarters on the former Brompton Gasworks site.
The Labor candidate in Steven Marshall’s seat of Dunstan has slammed a prominent union for its intervention in the campaign, calling its election posters targeting the former Premier “reprehensible”.
Federal senate candidate Nick Xenophon has hit back strongly against Rex Patrick for questioning his links to Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, labelling the attack a “miserable attempt to dredge up some votes”.
UPDATED | The SA senator who replaced Nick Xenophon – and is now running against him to retain his seat – has launched an extraordinary attack on his former boss, using parliamentary privilege to slam the lawyer for representing Chinese tech giant Huawei and likening it to doing PR for German arms manufacturers under the Nazi regime.
News
EXCLUSIVE | Former Premier Steven Marshall says he won’t accept a frontbench role in Opposition but insists he will serve out his four-year term after narrowly holding his seat of Dunstan, as one of his senior colleagues rules himself out of the race to replace him as Liberal leader.
News
The Federal Government is promising to spend $200 million to fix a notorious bottleneck in Adelaide’s south as part of its pre-election budget.
