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.
The Marshall Government has thumbed its nose at state parliament and answered the pleas of the state’s grain lobby by introducing new regulations to overturn South Australia’s GM ban.
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.