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  • Cabinet shuffle elevates Autism portfolio

    Cabinet shuffle elevates Autism portfolio

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    Premier Peter Malinauksas this morning revealed his new cabinet at a swearing-in ceremony led by Governor Frances Adamson at Government House. The cabinet reshuffle was prompted by the retirement of Dan Cregan MP from politics, who cited “pressing family matters” for his departure. Five new cabinet positions were announced, with the Autism portfolio being elevated…

  • Spend now, pay later budget hands an eye-watering bill to our kids

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    Bill Hayden’s drover’s dog followed him to the grave. In February 1983, Hayden unhappily resigned as Labor’s federal Opposition Leader to make way for Bob Hawke, blindsiding an early-election move by Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Still raw from his knifing, Hayden quipped “a drover’s dog could lead the Labor Party to victory, the way…

  • We owe our kids more than social media tinkering

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    Peter Malinauskas taking his policy cues from ultra-conservative Florida governor Ron DeSantis wouldn’t have appeared on many bingo cards before the election, but here we are. The Premier’s weekend splash was about a “nation-leading” approach to social media, which seeks to copy exactly Florida’s legislated ban on children under 14 from holding social media accounts,…

  • How Queensland gas has become like kryptonite to both sides of politics

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    Labor has always had a vexed relationship with gas, but with the LNP it has been a lot less troublesome, a bit more like a “friends with benefits’’ than a full-on romance. But that fell apart last week as the law of unintended consequences brought Gina Rinehart and Premier Steven Miles into the same camp…

  • Former Liberal to join Malinauskas ministry

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    Veteran Labor MP Leon Bignell was named Speaker this afternoon and temporarily stepped down from the Labor party as a result. The Mawson MP replaces Daniel Cregan as Speaker, who was today named as independent Geoff Brock’s replacement in the Malinauskas Government Ministry. Cregan’s portfolio is yet to be announced, with the Premier noting his…

  • Liberals confronted with another slice of steaming hot failure

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    The A1 Pizza Bar in Port Pirie delivers more than piping hot pizzas. Ten years ago this Friday, it delivered government, with the lot, to Jay Weatherill. On March 22, 2014, a week after a deadlocked state election, the then Labor Premier hopped in a car and fanged off to Pirie where he clinched the…

  • Antic declares left wing ‘pandemic’ as SA Liberals’ shift to right confirmed

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    Antic narrowly defeated former cabinet minister Anne Ruston in a weekend preselection ballot to take number one spot on the party’s Senate ticket for the next federal election. Ruston was relegated to number two, despite having the behind-the-scenes backing of federal Leader Peter Dutton, although both Antic and Ruston are likely to be elected given…

  • The political bells are about to toll in Dunstan. But for whom?

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    The clock in the Norwood Town Hall clock tower was donated by Sir Edwin and Lady Smith. Which was jolly nice of them. Not only did Ed and his missus Elizabeth donate the clock, they also shelled out £2000 to secure the freehold of the Norwood Oval for the hoi-polloi. This was back in the…

  • Labor’s vexing new tactic could backfire on the streets of Norwood

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    In a new political tactic, Labor’s dirt unit has held on to a job application from a young woman for years and then released it in full to exact as much political damage as possible. Labor seems to think it’s a masterstroke. People in the electorate who aren’t living inside the hyper-partisan bubbles of the…

  • Trust me, most of the time we’re talking bulldust

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    Somebody, please hand the Premier a bigger shovel. Peter Malinauskas needs it to find a way out of the deep hole he’s carelessly fallen into while tromping around oona woop-woop in South Australia’s vast far north donga in steel-capped boots, fluoro-orange overalls and hard hats this week. Perhaps it was all that clean desert air,…