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The quaint and quintessentially South Australian ritual of trying to make sense of our electoral map highlights the cultural gulf between two different branches of government, writes Tom Richardson.
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Former Liberal powerbroker Nick Minchin says the removal of a constitutional imperative for electoral ‘fairness’ gives Labor an “undue advantage” that will “make it tougher for the Marshall Government to retain office” at the next state election.
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The SA Labor Party has been dealt a potential blow with a courtroom hearing that the electoral boundaries on which the last state election was fought – ending 16 years of ALP rule – should form the “starting point” for the next redistribution, rather than a ‘blank canvas’ approach.
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.
With senior South Australian Liberals preparing to fight for a return of the “fairness clause”, Labor party lawyer Adrian Tisato argues that their claims about the state’s electoral system don’t stand up to scrutiny.
Simmering Liberal tensions are set to be further stoked at a meeting next week amid a party-room push for the Marshall Government to reintroduce a “fairness clause” to the state’s constitution, after it was removed in the dying days of the former Labor Government.
The Marshall Government has conceded defeat on a controversial change to the state’s electoral laws that was shoehorned through parliament in the dying hours of the last sitting day before the state election, declaring it will not pursue a mooted court challenge.
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