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Thursday, August 22

"Business confidence is down - no s**t!": Foley cuts loose on Business SA "squawk box"

Outspoken former Treasurer Kevin Foley has unleashed a social media tirade against opponents of the Weatherill Government’s bank tax, declaring former Queensland Premier turned Bankers Association boss Anna Bligh “destroyed” her state’s Labor Party, and calling Business SA an ineffectual “squawk box” whose members should abandon it.

Foley tells: Ratty Rann's foul-mouthed 'gift' to the AFL

Kevin Foley has opened up about how he was too scared of Mike Rann to ever challenge him, despite his former leader being “as popular as dog sh*t” during his early tenure as Labor leader – and how he believes incumbent Jay Weatherill has become “a much better Premier than he was a minister”.

Foley's "Rack 'em, pack 'em, stack 'em" sent packing

Fledgling Corrections Minister and rising Labor star Peter Malinauskas has fired a none-too-subtle broadside at former Treasurer Kevin Foley over his infamous pledge to “rack, pack and stack” prisoners two or three to a cell in a bid to cut costs.