Analysis
South Australia has created a low-risk environment that relies on government intervention to protect us from change, writes Richard Blandy, who argues that we must accept more uncertainty if we are to recapture our capacity for competitive growth.
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A newly-established unit within the state Treasury Department has been given a “broad remit” to find ways to deliver “an equal or better service at a lower cost”, with the State Government open to pursue more outsourcing of public services.
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Amid the political heat of the budget aftermath, a significant truth has been missed: the state’s political agenda has hardly changed under the Marshall Government, writes Tom Richardson.
Hundreds of South Australian prison guards have walked off the job and descended on Parliament House demanding the government reverse its decision to privatise the Adelaide Remand Centre.
Rob Lucas’s first budget in 17 years has outraged the usual suspects – and a few others besides – but it hasn’t exactly sated those who have long called for radical public sector reform either. And with voters in Government-held marginals among those in the firing line, Tom Richardson asks: have the Liberals messed up the politics – again?
South Australian Aboriginal leaders have warned “disturbing” measures announced in the State Budget – including ending a native title grant and a $6 million funding cut to the Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation bureaucracy – will result in further disadvantage and challenges for Aboriginal groups.
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