Rob Lucas and Steven Marshall: is the honeymoon over yet? Photo: David Mariuz / AAP

Opinion

Richardson: Will we still respect them in the morning?

If the election of a new government is the political equivalent of a wedding, then that administration’s first budget is the moment that the marriage is consummated.

Notes on Adelaide

State Budget media secrets; who owned Team Adelaide's vanishing website?

In today’s Notes on Adelaide, we reveal a few Budget lock-up media secrets, including which media organisation will get a headstart on their coverage, uncover who owned the secretive Team Adelaide website, and pull apart the latest local newspaper readership numbers.

News

No new tram money in state budget, but four small surpluses

Premier Steven Marshall says there won’t be any new funding for trams in tomorrow’s budget and doesn’t know anything about reports of a $185 million federal cash splash earmarked for extending Adelaide’s tram network.

News

Budget to fund Paradise and Golden Grove park and rides

Next week’s state Budget will provide $18.5 million to expand park and rides at Paradise and Golden Grove, but previously budgeted facilities at Tea Tree Plaza and Klemzig have been put on the backburner.

Notes on Adelaide

Is the State Govt trying to damage the Murray royal commission?

In today’s Notes on Adelaide column, the State Government shoots a torpedo at the “bipartisan” royal commission into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, and state Labor leader Peter Malinauskas promises to fix his party’s neglect of an important part of the community.