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State Budget 2018: Full independent coverage here from 3pm
Financial black holes, public service cuts and plenty of spin – the Marshall Government’s first Budget will be revealed in full at 3pm today.
News
Financial black holes, public service cuts and plenty of spin – the Marshall Government’s first Budget will be revealed in full at 3pm today.
Opinion
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
South Australia’s Council on the Ageing has called on the State Government to address what it describes as a “ticking time bomb” of escalating housing stress and homelessness among older people.
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