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In today’s Notes on Adelaide column: with a fraught preselection ballot looming, the Liberal Party’s state president jets off for a European getaway as the Right faction pushes further into moderate-held branches, and Labor’s ‘steady-as-she-goes’ budget is overshadowed by a stoush with the party’s heartland supporter base.
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The SA Liberal Party’s Right faction has staged a coup in the seat of newly-installed Shadow Treasurer Matt Cowdrey – in a rebuff to state leader David Speirs’ call for factional détente – with leading conservative Alex Antic declaring: “The days of party ranks being populated by parliamentary staffers from left-wing offices are over.”
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Fledgling SA Liberal leader David Speirs has declared there is “no need” for a conservative-driven recruitment drive targeting Evangelical Christian communities to continue, declaring he does “not want to see any political party in this state run by a particular religious organisation or faith”.
In an encore Notes On Adelaide, the outspoken SA senator taking the ‘Tiser to task, as his party opts not to lay down the law to grassroots members backing prominent independents.
South Australian Liberal senator Alex Antic, in medi-hotel quarantine in Adelaide amid questions about his vaccination status, has appeared on a prominent US far-right figure’s podcast to accuse state governments of a “drift into authoritarianism”.
South Australian Liberal Senator and vaccine mandate critic Alex Antic has hit out at the state’s “bureaucratic overlords” after being placed in hotel quarantine upon his return to Adelaide.
A state Liberal showdown looms tomorrow, as a tense political battle wages in the backdrop of Steven Marshall’s statesmanlike turn as MC of the state’s COVID-19 response, writes Tom Richardson.
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