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Friday, August 14

"Off with the pixies": Lib plan for Kangaroo Island slammed

A Marshall Government minister’s proposal to shift Kangaroo Island into an electorate hundreds of kilometres away by road and sea has been described as “crazy” and “stupid” by both Liberal and Labor critics.

How Labor could win the next state election - tomorrow

EXCLUSIVE | The next state election could be effectively won in an Adelaide courtroom as early as tomorrow, as political parties argue over the impact of a shock constitutional change removing a requirement that a party should form government if it wins a statewide electoral majority.

SA's electoral fairness under threat

South Australia’s state election results in 2018 finally reflected the electorate’s will, but that new-found fairness is already under threat, writes legal commentator and Liberal Party legal adviser Morry Bailes.

Electoral fairness hijack 'wouldn't have survived a referendum'

The Weatherill Government is expecting a Liberal-led legal challenge after a late-night parliamentary coup which saw the contentious “fairness” provision stripped from the state’s Constitution Act.

REVEALED: The decision that cost the Libs a generation in power

The South Australian Liberal Party effectively cost itself government in at least three of the last four elections because it ignored the recommendation of a parliamentary committee to consider electoral reforms that would ensure the party with a statewide majority holds power, InDaily can reveal.