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South Australian Seniors Card holders can today board Adelaide’s trains, trams and buses free of charge, but regular commuters have been hit with a fare hike while a free public transport scheme for hospital workers has also been scrapped.
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A planned $1 million commission of inquiry to advise the State Government on returning South Australia’s train and tram operations to public ownership has been scrapped after “positive negotiations” with the services’ private operators.
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The Malinauskas Government has warned public servants involved in the privatisation of Adelaide’s passenger rail service that any insertion of “extraordinary clauses” regarding breaking the contract could be “close to maladministration or misconduct”.
Any privatisation of a state-owned asset in South Australia would have to be approved by both houses of parliament, under new legislation set to be tabled by the Greens next week.
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.
The Marshall Government commissioned multiple investigations into the leaking of “confidential information” about its $2.14 billion rail operations privatisation, prompting one unsuccessful bidder to demand the procurement process be halted – just days before it was awarded to a rival firm.
The State Government is spending millions of dollars on high-level Sydney-based contractors because “the local talent pool is not up the task”, the head of SA’s transport department has told parliament.
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