The State Government and welfare agencies have hit back at online betting giant Sportsbet, after it scrapped plans for a $20 million high-tech data facility in Adelaide in protest at Labor’s new gambling tax.
Jay Weatherill’s long-promised Future Fund appears dead and buried, with the Premier telling parliament there was “no obvious windfall” that would justify the measure in the short-term.
Two former Labor ministers have broken ranks to critique elements of this month’s state budget, lamenting plans to amalgamate Families SA services in the northern suburbs and sell off the Lands Titles Office.
A state that has long chased dreams of utopia is now confronting its reality as the nation’s worst-performed economy and, Tom Richardson argues, a Government that has long sold hope is struggling to find a new pitch.