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EXCLUSIVE | The SA Liberal Party will cut its first-term MP for Narungga adrift, with the state executive last night voting to seek a new candidate for the safe seat – but Fraser Ellis has vowed to forge on as an independent.
Notes on Adelaide
In today’s Notes On Adelaide, the Libs leave their exiled MP to sweat, while an outgoing former minister calls for public service reform – as new research suggests SA dodged a bullet with the Government’s failed council reforms.
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The Marshall Government has fallen into political upheaval, with its parliamentary majority evaporating overnight as the ongoing parliamentary entitlements scandal saw a first-term MP charged with falsely claiming more than $18,000 – and the state’s corruption watchdog revealing it continues to investigate others.
Three senior Liberals who resigned over the Country Members entitlements scandal will face no further action after the state’s anti-corruption watchdog today cleared them and six other MPs of any wrongdoing.
MPs under a public integrity investigation over the potential misuse of parliamentary allowances have refused to release documents requested by the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption, citing parliamentary privilege – prompting a warning that the inquiry may be abandoned.
EXCLUSIVE | Former Liberal Minister Tim Whetstone’s adult son lives in the central California city of Modesto that the MP visited on a taxpayer-funded study tour in 2018 – with the trip also coinciding with his son’s birthday, InDaily can reveal.
Steven Marshall now has arguably one of the least experienced cabinets in state history and will go to the next election in the midst of an economic crisis with a promise to hand the state’s finances over to an untested Treasurer – unless Rob Lucas rethinks his retirement plans.
