Notes on Adelaide
In today’s Notes On Adelaide, the SA Libs show their latest defector who’s boss (on Facebook at least), while their former federal leader finds SA Health’s CEO’s border comments… well, a bit of a downer.
News
The Australian government has dismissed claims by a former Trump campaign aide that former foreign minister Alexander Downer was a spy and part of a “deep state” plot before the 2016 US presidential election.
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George Papadopoulos, who had an infamous meeting with Alexander Downer at a London bar before Donald Trump’s 2016 election win and ended up in jail, says he feels vindicated after the release of a summary of Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling.
George Papadopoulos, a former adviser to Donald Trump’s election campaign who claims Alexander Downer and the Australian government spied on him, has testified for six hours before sparsely attended US congressional committees in Washington, DC.
Alexander Downer’s recent disastrous forays into public life should prompt a sober rethink of the concerted efforts to install him as leader of the SA Liberal Party, writes Tom Richardson.
Former Liberal leader Alexander Downer appears to have doubled down on his criticism of voters at the Mayo by-election, penning a column in which he blames the Australian public for 10 years of political turmoil.
Insiders say the Liberals have “lessons to be learned” over their failed Mayo by-election campaign, but Georgina Downer appears likely to be re-endorsed as the party’s candidate as early as next week – despite some members privately declaring she will never win the seat.
