Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten are both campaigning in the key Adelaide seat of Boothby today, hammering home their respective messages ahead of Saturday’s election.
Labor weighed in on migration, the Premier was conspicuously absent and one of his ministers lurched from crisis to disaster. But, writes Tom Richardson, it was the Murdoch media that stole the spotlight for the wrong reasons in an eventful week in politics.
An adviser to SA Labor frontbencher Katrine Hildyard is set to take on Nicolle Flint in the state’s only marginal federal seat, InDaily understands, as both major parties prepare the ground for a looming general election.
Two former independent candidates for state and federal parliament were among around a dozen attendees at the Nick Xenophon Team’s Annual General Meeting in Adelaide today, but the party leader himself was a no-show.