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SA Health is renaming its central bureaucracy but won’t say how much it will cost taxpayers. And although Vickie Chapman said rebranding the health department was a “disgusting waste of our health dollar” in Opposition, she won’t say now if she endorses switching nomenclature.
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The Government is refusing to apologise to or compensate a prisoner for holding him in solitary confinement for 66 days – a period defined by the UN as torture or cruel punishment – despite the state ombudsman finding his isolation was unjust.
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The author of the State Government’s food truck reforms – which unexpectedly passed parliament last night – has denied that unsavoury vendors could exploit a “Mr Whippy” loophole in the new legislation.
The State Government’s stalled food trucks bill will pass the parliament – but only if bricks-and-mortar businesses get explicit legal rights to appeal against mobile vendors trading in their patch, the MP with the deciding vote has told InDaily.
The number of entrepreneurs wanting to open new food trucks in Adelaide’s CBD is more than four times the number of trading permits the city council has made available, InDaily can reveal.
Registration stickers on heavy vehicles could be scrapped among a raft of changes to be taken to parliament when the State Government seeks to abolish out-dated laws and regulations next month.
