"You ask for miracles, Hans - I give you the SA development lobby." Photo: Tony Lewis / digital image by Paige Mewett

Opinion

Richardson: Diehard Lucas delivers a political masterstroke

Despite the shock and awe of recent months, the next election won’t be fought on land tax.

Opinion

Richardson: The unique chip on our collective shoulder

It’s there. We all know it. And South Australian lawmakers should stop appealing to our unique sense of self-deprecation by telling us we need to slavishly follow the eastern states to succeed, writes Tom Richardson.

News

Developers hire Pyne to fight Marshall's land tax changes

Moderate Liberal heavyweight Christopher Pyne, a close confidant of Premier Steven Marshall, will lobby against the State Government’s land tax reforms on behalf of a range of influential clients.

Opinion

Your views: on pokies, tax reform and trees

Readers respond to the decision to allow notes to be used in poker machines, the Treasurer’s latest comments on the proposed land tax reform, and the axing of century-old trees amid the heated international climate change debate.

Local

Land tax payers worse off under new changes, Lucas concedes

Treasurer Rob Lucas has admitted land tax payers will be worse off under the Marshall Government’s proposed new legislation, conceding the changes were forced by a projected $2.1 billion write-down in GST revenues.