Opinion

Thursday, October 01

What could topple the CEO of SA Health?

Most of this month’s revelations about Dr Chris McGowan won’t seriously dent the SA Health chief executive’s professional armour – but his handling of a little-known aged care program planned for Adelaide’s southern suburbs might, writes InDaily reporter Bension Siebert.

An alternative whistleblower hotline

A long and tragic record shows that leaks to the media – rather than competent internal processes – have forced improvement on SA Health, argues InDaily reporter Bension Siebert.

Lord Mayor Martin Haese. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily

Haese's shifting vision of carbon neutral weakens Adelaide's green ambitions

Lord Mayor Martin Haese’s mixed messages have all-but emptied his council’s carbon neutral Adelaide target of meaning, argues InDaily’s city reporter Bension Siebert.

Discovering wine and other surprises

Whitey wonders whether there’s much difference between discovering claret as a kid in 1971 and young folks hitting intoxicants now.

Lessons for SA from the US economic experiment

In the latest in his series on how to stimulate entrepreneurship in South Australia, Richard Blandy looks at what we can learn from the different growth rates of states in the USA.

VW emissions scandal: was it the customers' fault all along?

When Paul Willis, the UK managing director of Volkswagen, gave evidence to the transport select committee, he was quick to apologise to the more than 1 million of his customers affected by the emissions scandal that has engulfed the German car firm.