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Premier Steven Marshall has ruled out announcing a new cabinet until after the March 19 election, as stood-aside Attorney-General Vickie Chapman awaits the results of an Ombudsman’s inquiry and the government delays naming a successor to retiring Treasurer Rob Lucas.
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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.
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Ousted mayor Sam Johnson says he now regrets his failed “Contiki tour” foray into state politics under Nick Xenophon’s SA Best banner – which he blames for his shock loss in the weekend’s local government elections.
Frank Pangallo says the State Government’s proposed state productivity commission should assess its plans for council rate-capping.
The formation of a potential voting bloc that could wield the balance of power in the state’s new-look Upper House looks a lost cause, with former Nick Xenophon sidekick John Darley today trading insults with SA Best, labelling it full of “dickheads” and declaring the party should split.
Nick Xenophon’s name will be expunged from the parties he founded, with the former senator’s name to be dropped from SA Best and his federal ‘Team’ seeking a radical rebrand to become the “Centre Alliance”.
In the second and final part of his analysis of what went wrong with Nick Xenophon’s tilt for state parliament, Haydon Manning – a quasi-insider in the SA Best campaign – reveals how the party leader had given up hope for his own election weeks out from polling day.
