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The State Opposition has seized on claims by the NSW Government that it’s in talks to lure South Australian companies to Sydney, arguing Premier Steven Marshall should never have disbanded SA’s investment attraction agency – as its former boss warned the state may need to “compete” to bring in business.
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EXCLUSIVE | At least half a dozen senior executives could be out the door amid deep cuts and a structural shakeup at the State Government agency that sells South Australia to the world, in what looms as the biggest public service cull since the state election.
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Labor has promised to boost Investment Attraction South Australia’s funding to $130 million if it wins the March 17 election.
The State Government has given $1.8 million to one of Australia’s biggest horticultural companies to help it expand its mushroom-growing facility at Monarto, in a move expected to create 200 ongoing jobs.
The deputy chairman of the Weatherill Government’s Economic Development Board and head of the state’s Investment Attraction Agency has railed against Adelaide’s culture of conservatism, arguing “tall poppy syndrome is alive and well” and slamming “pissant bylaws” symptomatic of a “nanny state” mentality.
The State Government will today showcase its new Investment Attraction Agency – rebadged as Investment Attraction South Australia – highlighting a “bold new direction for trade and investment” under a unique board structure “chaired by eminent businessman Rob Chapman”.
