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EXCLUSIVE | Former Labor Premier Jay Weatherill will leave South Australia after accepting a new role as head of a Perth-based advocacy group funded by mining magnate Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s philanthropic Minderoo Foundation.
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The State Government will prorogue parliament at the beginning of the new year, killing off all proposed legislation that didn’t make into law this year and promising a “bold”, renewed agenda for the start of 2020.
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UPDATED: Labor’s federal election loss has been put down to a combination of Bill Shorten’s unpopularity, a “cluttered” policy agenda, and a failure to adapt to the ascension of Scott Morrison as prime minister.
Former Premier Jay Weatherill says he wants Labor to make his federal election post-mortem available to the public, telling party stalwarts in Adelaide it made a mistake in not adequately reviewing its narrow 2016 loss to Malcolm Turnbull before sleepwalking into this year’s shock defeat.
In today’s Notes on Adelaide, Steven Marshall doubles down on talking things up, the national broadcasting regulator gives his party a kicking, and his predecessor Jay Weatherill gets a new gig – as a warm-up act for a former Trump strategist.
Former Premier Jay Weatherill and former Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne have signed on to Uni SA’s Business School to deliver business and management education to MBA students.
