Each Friday until the election, Rann and Vanstone – who both happen to be former Australian Ambassadors to Italy – will run their eyes over the campaign for InDaily.

Today, Vanstone applies her no-nonsense approach to Labor’s record on health and sporting infrastructure – one of the key campaign clashes so far, with the Opposition promising to divert the cost of the Marshall Government’s riverbank stadium to the health budget.

This is a classic case of double standards, she argues, and South Australians won’t be duped, given what she says is Labor’s poor record on health.

“Labor was happy to shell out hundreds of millions for the (Adelaide) Oval,” she writes. “They didn’t choose to put the money into the health system or education.

“You just can’t do one thing and say another and expect people who work hard for a living to not spot the hypocrisy.”

In his counterpoint, Rann takes a look at Liberal in-fighting and provides some insights about how the Marshall Government is travelling from what he says is internal polling.

“The Liberals are worried,” he writes. “They hoped that ‘Covid management’ would hold them up as it did for incumbent governments in other states.  However, Liberal polling shows the ‘opening up’ before Christmas, before the majority of vulnerable nursing home residents received their booster shots, is seen by many as premature given the Omicron surge and the tragic number of deaths that needlessly occurred.”

You can read Vanstone’s full column here, and Rann’s here.

To follow their analysis through the campaign, you can access all of their columns on InDaily’s ‘Party Lines’ page.