Politics
Simmering Liberal tensions are set to be further stoked at a meeting next week amid a party-room push for the Marshall Government to reintroduce a “fairness clause” to the state’s constitution, after it was removed in the dying days of the former Labor Government.
Opinion
A conservative Right hijack of the SA Liberal Party may be fuelled by recent State Government decisions – but it’s been a long time coming, writes Tom Richardson.
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The Liberal Party has promised to scrap the planned reconstruction of Adelaide’s suburban tram network as part of its public transport policy, which also involves splitting up the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure.
We hit the streets of the most-watched electorate in South Australia – the eastern suburbs seat of Hartley – with incumbent MP Vincent Tarzia, who faces the fight of his political life against SA Best leader Nick Xenophon.
Nick Xenophon wants to set up a standing committee of parliament to scrutinise council decisions and a Senate estimates-style process to allow local residents to grill their representatives.
The SA Liberal Party has released a suite of energy policies it says will lower energy prices, stabilise the grid and secure interconnection with New South Wales – but it is yet to decide who should benefit from $100 million in subsidies for home solar batteries.
