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  • Bonaros slams major parties for not supporting pokies reforms

    Bonaros slams major parties for not supporting pokies reforms

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    SA-Best MLC Connie Bonaros’s bill to legislate extended restrictions on gambling advertising on television and radio successfully passed the Legislative Council last Wednesday, and is now making its way to the Lower House. The Gambling Administration (Limitation on Advertising) Amendment Bill 2024 would extend restrictions on gambling advertising on television and radio when, according to…

  • ‘Iron fist’: Govt blasted as protest law passes

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    The Summary Offences (Obstruction of Public Places) Amendment Bill 2023 was passed shortly before 7am today with Labor and Liberal support after a marathon 14-hour debate in the Upper House. The contentious legislation, opposed by wide sections of the union movement and civil society groups, will increase the maximum penalty for obstructing a public place from…

  • State Govt accused of gender equality ‘backflip’

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    SA Best MLC Connie Bonaros will this afternoon on International Women’s Day take her Gender Equality Private Member’s Bill to a vote in the Legislative Council, hoping to secure its passage to the lower house where the Labor Government holds the majority. The Bill, which was first introduced by Bonaros in 2020, proposes to establish…

  • Warning of new threat to workers’ compo rights

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    A standoff between the Malinauskas Government and the Labor Party’s own affiliated unions was defused early this week with an eleventh hour compromise over changed to the Return To Work regime. It came after a landmark legal decision in favour of injured truck driver Shane Summerfield, who was left permanently injured after a 2016 workplace…

  • MPs, staffer implicated in vile behaviour as Duluk allegations escalate

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    The claims centre around several new allegations – many of them second or third hand – made under parliamentary privilege yesterday by Greens MLC Tammy Franks against embattled Liberal exile Sam Duluk. However the Waite MP hit back, calling Franks “a long-term political adversary” using “salacious” claims “designed to cause maximum political damage”. “I am…

  • Bonaros slams Duluk conduct as Marshall waits on decision

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    Duluk was last month acquitted of basic assault against Bonaros when he touched her bottom at a parliament house corridor Christmas party in December 2019. However, magistrate John Wells was scathing about his conduct, saying the Waite MP acted like a “drunken pest”. Parliamentary Speaker Josh Teague yesterday declined to recommence a stalled investigation into…

  • Libs forced to deal with Duluk after Speaker rejects investigation

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    Duluk was last month acquitted of a basic assault charge against SA Best MLC Connie Bonaros, but his political career remained in limbo after Marshall declared he “would expect the Parliamentary Investigation to continue”. That inquiry, instigated by former Speaker Vincent Tarzia in January 2020 and conducted by Paul Hocking of Reynella-based Quark and Associates,…

  • ‘Drunken pest’ Duluk not guilty of assault – but could face fresh inquiry

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    In a decision that will have significant political ramifications, the MP for the safe southern suburbs Liberal seat of Waite walked from court after being acquitted of basic assault, with magistrate John Wells finding that the testimonies of two key prosecution witnesses were “factually incompatible” and “cannot be reconciled”. However, Duluk’s parliamentary career remains clouded,…

  • Waite and see: Marshall keeps door open for Duluk

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    The Waite MP stood aside from the Liberal party-room last year when he was charged with basic assault stemming from an incident at a boozy parliament house corridor Christmas party in 2019, at which he allegedly “whacked” SA Best MLC Connie Bonaros on the bottom. However, Duluk has continued to pay his party membership and…

  • Pell acquittal invoked in Duluk trial as defence insists ‘burden of proof’ not met

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    The Waite MP’s trial concludes today, with both prosecution and defence summing up their arguments. Duluk is accused of assault after allegedly “whacking” SA Best MLC Connie Bonaros on the bottom at a parliament house corridor Christmas function in December 2019. Marie Shaw QC, for Duluk, told magistrate Jonathan Wells today the testimony of Bonaros…