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The state’s most senior bureaucrat headlines a list of high-profile departures as the new Labor Government today set about on a major public service shake-up that will see new leadership in key portfolios, including Health, Transport, Education, Treasury and the Premier’s Department.
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The cost of the Gawler train line electrification project has blown out by another $127 million – to more than $842 million – the head of the Transport Department has revealed.
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The head of the state’s Transport department didn’t consider it his role to advise Attorney-General Vickie Chapman if she had a conflict of interest relating to a deep-water port on her native Kangaroo Island, telling parliament it would have been akin to “teaching your grandma how to suck eggs”.
The head of the state’s Transport Department has defended his involvement in a decision to allow three workers from New South Wales to enter South Australia, saying progress on a major taxpayer-funded rail project would halt without them.
A decision on the future of the threatened Urrbrae gatehouse is “imminent”, the Transport Department boss has told a parliamentary committee this morning as he revealed new costings to relocate the state heritage listed building.
The State Government was formally advised by not one – but two – engineers that relocating a state heritage-listed gatehouse at Urrbrae was feasible, but is pressing ahead with plans to bulldoze it, it’s been revealed.
A “re-balancing” of resources to “tackle the bow-wave of infrastructure and transport service delivery” is at the forefront of a new Transport and Infrastructure Department plan to reshape its PR offensive.
