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EXCLUSIVE | Laws designed to save heritage-listed buildings, including the Urrbrae Gatehouse, from the Government’s “wrecking-ball” are set to be rushed through state parliament, as three ex-Liberal crossbenchers speak out about their newfound political sway.
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UPDATED | The Marshall Government has suffered significant defeats in state parliament’s first votes since the Liberal Party lurched into minority government, with the crossbench joining with the Opposition to hijack the parliamentary agenda.
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The state’s top judicial officer has fired back in an escalating row over a parliamentary inquiry that slammed the governance and workplace culture within SA’s Courts Administration Authority, as staff prepare to vote on a range of demands to expunge alleged “bullying, harassment and unfair treatment” from the workplace.
The SA Liberal Party’s governing executive has thumbed its nose at a party-room demand to expel rogue Legislative Council president John Dawkins from the party, instead suspending his membership for little more than a year.
A state MP has accused the Marshall Government of turning a blind eye to “extraordinarily unacceptable” and “systemic” workplace harassment in Parliament, after Treasurer Rob Lucas questioned the $150,000 cost of an overdue inquiry into the issue.
Fresh recommendations for broad reform of the state’s anti-corruption watchdog could be proposed, amid a political stoush over the make-up of a parliamentary committee with oversight of ICAC.
State parliament authorities have issued a stern warning to MPs not to bring pets to work – and have banned a Labor MP’s beloved rescue dog from the building.
