Notes on Adelaide
In today’s Notes On Adelaide, fractious factions after the Libs’ first contested party-room ballot in almost a decade, communication breakdowns and the Premier’s creative use of emoji.
News
Newly-elected Liberal deputy leader Dan van Holst Pellekaan says he’s a “team player” – and expects to remain in his role – after defeating rival David Speirs in a party-room ballot yesterday.
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Energy Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan has been handed the role of Deputy Premier on an interim basis – quietly appointed to the role he is expected to seek his colleagues’ endorsement for at a party-room ballot tomorrow.
For the first time in its 160-year history, SA Parliament’s Lower House will consider allowing MPs to take up to 20 weeks of maternity leave to “send a strong message” to women that they should consider a career in politics.
The $2.4 billion SA-NSW interconnector spruiked by the Marshall Government as a way to slash household energy bills has hit a major snag, with a Commonwealth adjudicator declaring a bid to start charging customers before the project is built would “cost consumers money and expose them to greater risks” – and warning broader cost savings are unlikely to kick in for a decade.
BHP has scrapped its proposed $3.7 billion Brownfields Expansion at Olympic Dam in favour of a number of smaller projects to improve reliability and increase capacity.
