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state election 2018

Sunday, December 08

"Too-hard basket": Govt scraps election pledge after investment warning

The Marshall Government has abandoned an election promise requiring public sector superannuation funds to be locally administered after an outcry from unions and the Funds SA board about the potential impact on its $30 billion investment.

REVEALED: Labor's election mistakes - and blueprint for recovery

EXCLUSIVE | Labor must refine its brand, run better candidates earlier in key seats and overhaul its policy agenda to rebuild its base and broaden its electoral appeal, according to an exhaustive election post-mortem obtained by InDaily.

Leon Bignell will spend more time in Mawson. Photo: Kelly Barnes / AAP

LABOR SHAKE-UP: Bignell leads exodus as new faces mark Malinauskas era

EXCLUSIVE | Recently returned former minister Leon Bignell will take a back seat as Labor unveils a very new-look Opposition next week, with a host of veterans – including current Deputy Leader John Rau and former minister Ian Hunter – vacating the frontbench and two first-term MPs and a former minister set for elevation, InDaily understands.

How Xenophon lost hope and SA Best deserted the battlefield

In the second and final part of his analysis of what went wrong with Nick Xenophon’s tilt for state parliament, Haydon Manning – a quasi-insider in the SA Best campaign – reveals how the party leader had given up hope for his own election weeks out from polling day.

Why the SA Best bubble burst: a quasi-insider's account

Political scientist Haydon Manning ceased commentary on the state election due to his close family ties to Nick Xenophon’s SA Best. However, in the first of a two-part series, he now provides a warts-and-all analysis of what went wrong in the campaign – the lack of funding and seasoned campaigners, and the strategic mistakes from the man who insisted on running the show almost single-handedly.

Capturing our March madness: Bank SA boss finds a new life behind a lens

Peter Hanlon, it seems, has always been a contradiction. A punk-rock loving aesthete who has scaled the upper echelons of Australia’s finance industry and still sits at the helm of the Bank SA board and who, at 63, has recently found a new career path – as an arthouse filmmaker.