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Advocate to lead state inquiry into foster care
The state government has appointed a leading child protection advocate to head an inquiry into foster and kinship care in South Australia.
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The state government has appointed a leading child protection advocate to head an inquiry into foster and kinship care in South Australia.
Opinion
A Senate inquiry into media diversity ended with partisan findings and the Coalition and Labor refusing to back a judicial probe. Andrew Podger says there are other ways to address genuine problems with Australian media.
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A Senate inquiry has called for a royal commission-like probe into the the concentration of media ownership in Australia and whether a new independent press regulator is needed – but the committee’s Liberal MP deputy chair has branded it a “shameless political stunt”.
Ambulance ramping in South Australia will be the subject of a parliamentary inquiry after a petition of more than 44,000 signatures calling for more ambulance resourcing was presented to parliament.
Cabinet newcomer Josh Teague will be sworn in as the Planning and Local Government Minister today, but will only be acting in the role of Attorney-General, with Vickie Chapman waiting in the wings – and remaining in cabinet.
UPDATED | The state’s ombudsman says he has powers to investigate issues raised by an inquiry into Attorney-General Vickie Chapman’s rejection of a timber port on Kangaroo Island – but is unlikely to do so because the matter has already been heard by a parliamentary committee.
The former chair of the state’s planning commission has told a parliamentary inquiry that she advised Attorney-General Vickie Chapman that a $40 million Kangaroo Island port proposal “should be approved”, declaring she employed her own benchmark for assessing conflicts of interest: ‘If in doubt, get out’.
