Politics
The state’s electoral boundaries are finally set with the SA Labor Party today confirming it will not pursue a High Court appeal against a radical re-draw of the political map.
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The South Australian Labor Party has been left reeling from the wholesale rejection of its Supreme Court appeal against a radical redraw of the state’s electoral map that could help hand the Liberal Opposition victory at next year’s state election.
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Five of the state’s top judges will be asked to rule on “a question that strikes to the very heart of what it means to be a democratic society” when they preside over the historic Supreme Court challenge to the state’s redrawn electoral boundaries.
South Australian Attorney-General John Rau has been appointed a Senior Counsel by the Supreme Court.
If members of the state’s judiciary were outraged at the absence of funding for long-overdue courts infrastructure in this month’s budget, there was one person in the Labor caucus with little sympathy for their plight.
Adelaide QC Martin Hinton, the state's Solicitor-General since 2008, has been appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
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