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The Marshall Government’s re-election hopes could be dealt a blow with the commission tasked with redrawing South Australia’s electoral map shifting the pendulum in Labor’s favour – and a key independent set to contest one of the Liberal Party’s previously safest seats.
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The former judge who oversaw the most sweeping electoral boundary changes in recent history before the last state election is set to become South Australia’s next Independent Commissioner Against Corruption.
EXCLUSIVE | One of the Marshall Government’s most senior ministers could face off against veteran independent Geoff Brock at the next state election, under a proposal to merge two regional seats being strongly considered by the state’s boundaries commission.
SA Labor has proposed scrapping a regional seat to address “a structural imbalance in favour of the Liberal Party”, which it argues handed the Marshall Government a bigger election advantage “than was intended or predicted” – as both major parties make their pitch for pole position at the 2022 poll.
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.
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