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Taxpayers forked out three-quarters of a million dollars on an advertising campaign to promote the Malinauskas Government’s first state budget – triple the amount spent by the former Marshall Government last year.
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The South Australian budget does nothing to foster jobs growth and fails to deal with growing cost of living pressures, Opposition Leader David Speirs says.
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South Australian university staff are evenly split on whether they support the Malinauskas Government setting up a commission to investigate a potential merger of the state’s top three universities.
In today’s Notes on Adelaide column: with a fraught preselection ballot looming, the Liberal Party’s state president jets off for a European getaway as the Right faction pushes further into moderate-held branches, and Labor’s ‘steady-as-she-goes’ budget is overshadowed by a stoush with the party’s heartland supporter base.
The public service union is calling on its members to stay “vigilant” for future staff cuts as the Malinauskas Government looks to claw back millions in savings from public sector agencies.
The Opposition has seized on stagnant employment growth in Labor’s state budget to warn that “jobs growth is going to fall off a cliff in South Australia”, but the Liberal leader is offering “bipartisanship” on a looming battle with Western Australia over GST.
