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Treasurer Rob Lucas concedes he’s still effectively signing cheques “on behalf of the former government” and can’t say how much of Labor’s centrepiece $200 million Future Jobs Fund will ultimately be spent.
Opinion
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.
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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.
Parents concerned for the safety of their children in the city late at night will have an added worry with the state budget axing funding of Adelaide’s monitored taxi rank concierge service, says Lord Mayor Martin Haese.
South Australian Premier Steven Marshall is “disappointed” in the Public Service Association’s decision to take industrial action over the outsourcing of some prison beds.
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