Politics
Labor is set to hold 27 lower house seats in the new parliament – only one short of the party’s total after its historic 2006 ‘Rannslide’ – with the nominally-Liberal seat of Waite poised to fall to the ALP for the first time in its history.
Politics
As the “air war” campaign bombards SA voters with daily photo-ops, pledges and – increasingly – attack ads, hundreds of candidates in 47 electorates across the state are waging their own micro campaigns. InDaily hits the streets in one of the most intriguing seats, to gauge the issues that matter to the voters who could shift the election.
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The SA Greens will preference ex-Liberal independent Sam Duluk above his former party – despite parliamentary leader Tammy Franks’ labelling him a “slithering snake” in a recent parliamentary speech – while former DPP Stephen Pallaras’s fledgling party has raised eyebrows by running an apparent spoiler campaign in the four seats that will decide the state’s next government.
A pledged State Government review into South Australia’s contentious ‘late night code’ has been put on ice – but a former top prosecutor and current parliamentary candidate says he wants the nation’s last remaining lockout laws scrapped.
In today’s Notes On Adelaide, the fraught Liberal preselection in Waite sinks into deeper controversy, as the president of the party’s local branch slams one of its prospective candidates, while another hopeful breaks bread with the seat’s shunned incumbent.
A Liberal preselection hopeful to take on Waite independent Sam Duluk says she’s not concerned her former Labor Party candidacy and a public bid to run for Nick Xenophon’s SA-Best might count against her.
Mitcham Council has called for a temporary suspension of works on an Old Belair Road roundabout project, citing a lack of detail and transparency from the Transport Department.
