The Weatherill Government today announced a broad-ranging review of clinical services at Modbury Hospital – but stopped short of a commitment to restore those cut – as it seeks to offset a potential backlash in key northern suburbs seats.
EXCLUSIVE | Maverick independent Frances Bedford is set to rebuff pleas from Premier Jay Weatherill to rejoin the Labor Party and run as its candidate for her seat of Florey, amid a dramatic broader shakeup that will today see rising star Peter Malinauskas installed as Health Minister, InDaily can reveal.
Former Labor maverick Frances Bedford has given the strongest indication yet that she intends to contest the March 2018 state election as an independent, holding a series of public ‘meet and greets’ in Health Minister Jack Snelling’s seat of Playford.
The future of a peace deal between Labor’s left and right factions that will hand the north-eastern suburbs seat of Florey to arch-conservative Jack Snelling hangs in the balance today, as the state’s redrawn electoral boundaries are tested in the Supreme Court.