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State Labor rising star Jayne Stinson has shocked her colleagues by resigning from Peter Malinauskas’s frontbench, citing “distressing and deeply personal matters”.
Politics
Factional tensions are brewing in the state Labor party, with the Left considering dumping one of its highest office-holders ahead of this year’s state convention as the faction looks to bolster its influence.
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The state ALP’s new rank and file preselection ballot process has exploded in controversy, with the process under a legal cloud after party officials determined to downplay the influence of ordinary party members – and leader Peter Malinauskas conceding he is powerless to intervene.
For a low-key contest to decide four relatively low-profile parliamentary appointments, Labor’s internal Legislative Council ballot is generating a level of electioneering generally reserved for state election campaigns.
South Australia’s two major parties are gearing up for factional upheaval, with a former Prime Minister weighing into the fray for the Liberal Party’s state presidency and two Labor members – including a former MP – challenging their party’s factional picks for preselection in key seats.
A former federal Labor candidate is set to contest the Liberal Party’s most marginal seat at the 2022 state election, while a longtime federal MP is considering a shock shift into a safe state seat, InDaily understands.
Labor’s Deputy Leader Susan Close has stepped away from a key portfolio, while Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas today appointed himself Shadow Minister for Jobs as his party gears up to make employment its headline issue in the lead-up to the 2022 state election.
