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EXCLUSIVE | Former Liberal Minister Tim Whetstone’s adult son lives in the central California city of Modesto that the MP visited on a taxpayer-funded study tour in 2018 – with the trip also coinciding with his son’s birthday, InDaily can reveal.
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Transport Minister Stephan Knoll and Primary Industries Minister Tim Whetstone will pay back tens of thousands of dollars in parliamentary allowances as the controversy around travel claims for country-based MPs broadened dramatically today, with the release of documents revealing what Premier Steven Marshall called “administrative errors” by several parliamentarians.
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The future of another major agency boss is in limbo, with the State Government advertising for a new CEO in its primary industries department – while the incumbent remains in the role.
The State Government will seek to lift the state’s long-standing ban on genetically-modified crops beginning next year for much of South Australia, but Kangaroo Island will continue with the moratorium.
State Liberals are preparing for a party-room showdown on contentious land tax changes as the cabinet today closed ranks, with one frontbencher declaring it was too early to know the full impact of the controversial budget saving.
The moratorium on genetically modified crops has likely cost SA’s agriculture industry up to $2.2 million each year – and there is little evidence against lifting the ban, an independent report commissioned by the Marshall Government argues.
