Politics
Labor is keeping its presumptive candidate for the state’s most marginal electorate under wraps, after a high-profile prospect declined to nominate.
Opinion
A bid to seize the agenda on euthanasia coupled with the latest failed foray into shop trading reform smacks of a Government seeking a legacy and, writes Tom Richardson, getting its timing all wrong.
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The Deputy Mayor of the strife-torn Tea Tree Gully council is expected to make a run for state parliament, with the Labor Party opening preselection nominations for the north-eastern seat of Newland, the state’s most marginal electorate.
EXCLUSIVE | The state’s infrastructure assessment panel has raised red flags on both the Government and Opposition’s major election priorities, confirming it sent a first-draft Liberal plan to bring soccer to the city back to the drawing board – and warning Labor’s hydrogen plan will require further investment totalling “hundreds of millions of dollars”.
Labor leader Peter Malinauskas says he won’t reveal a location for a promised “world-leading” hydrogen power station until closer to next year’s state election, but insists the project’s $590 million budget is “fully costed”.
A prominent medicinal cannabis advocate and former staffer to veteran crossbencher Geoff Brock will stand as an independent in the Yorke Peninsula seat of Narungga – whose incumbent Fraser Ellis is facing criminal charges after an ICAC inquiry into alleged misuse of parliamentary entitlements.
Long-term SA Greens MLC Mark Parnell has declined to quell growing speculation he will soon pull the pin on his political career, as successor and current Adelaide City councillor Robert Simms quits his day job to focus on the party’s state election campaign.
