Notes on Adelaide
In today’s Notes on Adelaide, the Premier is called out for snubbing the state’s private pathology providers, while Labor continues to trade barbs with its outspoken preselection candidate – and has Steven Marshall adopted a new football team?
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UPDATED | The failed challenger in a “sullied” Labor preselection ballot has fired a parting shot at the party’s “factional brutality”, while two former ministers today quit the ALP to revive the Evangelical-inspired Family First political brand.
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In today’s Notes On Adelaide – the state’s three biggest political parties are facing internal upheaval, with ongoing Liberal tensions, a Labor preselection standoff turning increasingly nasty – and the Greens’ state director walking away from the job months out from state and federal elections.
A preselection fight for Labor’s safest federal SA seat has taken a stunning turn, with one of the two nominees serving the party a legal letter claiming the campaign process is unfair and “anti-democratic” – and threatening Supreme Court action if her concerns are not addressed.
Former Premier Jay Weatherill says social policy is “the new province for economic reform”, arguing the Labor Party would find federal success if it committed “to make Australia the best place in the world to be a parent, and the best place in the world to grow up”.
In today’s Notes On Adelaide: who’s who on Labor’s hot mess of a website, things may or may not be coming up roses for SA Tourism, and the Adelaide Football Club’s still coming to grips with this democracy thing.
