Premier Jay Weatherill with the nuclear royal commission's report in May 2016.

Opinion

SA's big bang theory: lessons from inside the MFP

South Australia loves a big, taxpayer-funded, get-rich-quick scheme, writes economics commentator Richard Blandy. He should know: he was once conscripted by the government to do the numbers on the mythical Multifunction Polis.

Analysis

No comment necessary: SA's economic blueprint from 1981

An economic blueprint for South Australia from more than 35 years ago shows that government and business leaders were concerned we might become a "stagnant backwater". Did South Australia act on their recommendations? You be the judge.

Media Week

Key SA media player hits back at "doom and gloom"

This week, we hand over the Media Week column to Royce Zygarlicki who takes issue with last week's assertion that Adelaide's national significance in the media and advertising industries is in decline. Rather, he argues that digital media is invigorating the local industry.

Opinion

South Australia's inexorable decline needs to be managed

No amount of parochial boosterism should obscure the reality that South Australia's economic decline needs to be managed with radical new approaches, writes Malcolm King.

Opinion

Jay Weatherill: Political genius and economic disaster

Premier Jay Weatherill's powerful political skills continue to divert blame for the state's economic malaise to outside forces when the real problem is much closer to home, writes economics commentator Richard Blandy.