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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”.
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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”.
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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.
Elections are considered the lifeblood of democracy but, as Tom Richardson argues, for the most part they’re merely rubber-stamping decisions being made right now, with limited scrutiny, by major party insiders.
Premier Steven Marshall has signalled the end of former Liberal MP Sam Duluk’s political career with the party, suggesting the former rising star won’t be endorsed as a candidate for next year’s state election.
The Marshall Government has fallen into political upheaval, with its parliamentary majority evaporating overnight as the ongoing parliamentary entitlements scandal saw a first-term MP charged with falsely claiming more than $18,000 – and the state’s corruption watchdog revealing it continues to investigate others.
