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Notes on Adelaide
In today’s Notes On Adelaide, with polling day looming the campaign pitches are getting… weirder – with one prominent South Australian hopeful flat out just trying to explain how to vote for him; while the Libs turn their focus from Boothby to Sturt.
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Twenty Australian Bushmaster armoured vehicles worth $50 million are on their way to Ukraine after leaving Brisbane for Europe on C-17 Globemasters this morning.
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UPDATED | The SA senator who replaced Nick Xenophon – and is now running against him to retain his seat – has launched an extraordinary attack on his former boss, using parliamentary privilege to slam the lawyer for representing Chinese tech giant Huawei and likening it to doing PR for German arms manufacturers under the Nazi regime.
Nick Xenophon’s proposed political comeback shouldn’t occur until he accounts for his failed 2018 campaign, argues Tom Richardson.
Liberal defector Dan Cregan’s media shtick has been likened to that of former senator Nick Xenophon, and now he’s asked one of SA Best’s failed state election candidates to run his own re-election campaign.
Former state MP and senator Nick Xenophon is threatening to make a return to federal politics over a legal case about Ugg boots – and a former colleague believes he will win a seat if he does run.
EXCLUSIVE | An Adelaide couple is suing the State Government for the “unlawful removal” of their daughters by child protection workers, claiming the girls were wrongly taken from them because authorities believed the parents had “fabricated” a gluten intolerance condition.
