Tag: Kyam Maher
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Veteran Labor Minister named Treasurer after shock Cabinet resignations
Minister Tom Koutsantonis is replacing Stephen Mullighan in the job as the state’s Treasurer after Mullighan and Deputy Premier Susan Close announced their shock resignation from Cabinet on Thursday, saying they would not contest the next state election. Emily Bourke takes on Koutsantonis’ former Infrastructure and Transport portfolio. Koutsantonis was Treasurer in the former Labor…
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APY Lands adminstrator appointed after shock board suspension
Experienced company director Austin Taylor – who is also a Renewal SA board member – has been appointed for the duration of the three-month suspension of the board. Maher last month suspended the board until December 4 when a controversial report emerged showing a general manager appointment had breached the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands…
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SA Attorney-General calls Voice swing to ‘Yes’
“It almost feels like there has been a shift in momentum, I have handed out a lot of flyers at Adelaide Railway Station and this morning there’s never been so many people taking the flyers saying they will be voting Yes,” Attorney-General Kyam Maher said. “The level of positivity seems different. I think people are…
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SA ‘critical’ to Voice outcome
Pearson, along with state Attorney-General Kyam Maher and film maker Rachel Perkins, were at Adelaide Railway Station this morning talking to commuters about the referendum. “I’m excited about the prospect of the Prime Minister announcing the date tomorrow for the referendum, this has been a long journey, I’m so happy to be in Adelaide, the…
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Report into ‘toxic’ DPP office kept under wraps
The Attorney General’s Department earlier this year contracted independent consultant Rosslyn Cox to conduct a “workplace wellbeing survey” of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) and produce a report with recommendations for reform. The legal agency, which is budgeted for 178 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff this financial year, has been accused by…
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Specialist youth Aboriginal court to tackle high imprisonment rates
Aboriginal Affairs Minister and Attorney-General Kyam Maher today listed further detail around programs announced in last week’s State Budget to tackle what he says are years of failed government policy in fixing a disparity in imprisonments of Aboriginal people. “The rates at which Aboriginal people are imprisoned is unacceptable. Past government policy has not worked…
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Date set for SA Voice elections
The state government on Thursday finalised the timeline for the polls, along with the boundaries for the various regions. The SA process, established after legislation passed parliament in March, provides for six regions across the state. Five of those regions – Far North, Flinders and Upper North, Riverland and South East, West and West Coast,…
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Rally planned as tide turns on new Henley Beach sand
Henley Surf Life Saving Club, local government leaders, residents and artist Andrew Baines are attending the Save Our Beaches rally at the surf club at 10am Sunday. Charles Sturt Council ward councillor Kenzie van den Nieuwelaar said sand being delivered to Henley and West Beach was welcome but “we are tired of begging for every…
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Hands off our sand: warning from northern beach residents
Save Our Shores: Semaphore Largs Bay successfully fought to have a Liberal plan for a replenishment pipeline taking sand from their beaches to the south axed when the Labor Government won the last election – and they are ready to fight again. Lobby group member Warwick Norman said if the current review of sand replenishment…
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Popular Adelaide beach disappearing under review tide
Numerous access staircases were closed last year as sand fell away to create a dangerous drop from bottom steps, while some days there is no beach left in some sections for walkers or dogs. Henley Surf Life Saving Club vice president Lennie Hitch said some life members have never seen their beachfront so depleted, with…