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EXCLUSIVE | Public officers facing maladministration allegations would have the right to refuse to give evidence to an ICAC investigation under proposed Labor amendments to a contentious Bill designed to deliver greater transparency to South Australia’s anti-corruption watchdog.
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The Labor Party has denied it ever officially endorsed reviving the practice of naming the state’s best barristers Queen’s Counsels, comparing the proposal to former Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s politically disastrous move to reinstate Australian knighthoods in 2015.
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South Australian Aboriginal leaders have warned “disturbing” measures announced in the State Budget – including ending a native title grant and a $6 million funding cut to the Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation bureaucracy – will result in further disadvantage and challenges for Aboriginal groups.
Premier Steven Marshall says his trip to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands today will help build a “stronger more productive” relationship between Indigenous communities and the government.
Jay Weatherill insists there will be “insatiable demand” for a taxpayer-funded $35 million expansion of a gigabit-per-second Internet connection to South Australian homes – despite fewer than 200 households taking up packages of that speed on the NBN across the country.
A new digital games development hub in Adelaide’s CBD is expected to create up to 500 jobs in the fast-growing industry, aided by a $2 million grant from the State Government.
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