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Glad you’re not embarrassed anymore! Next time we’re down under we’ll make sure to get you to a show twitter.com/HumanServicesS…
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Big fan of journalistic nominative determinism
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Ombudsman findings reveal government data collection 'regrettable' but 'not meaningful'
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South Australian manufacturer InterCast and Forge forced to turn off lights and stand down staff after energy market 'failure'
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Finally had the energy crisis/market explained to me in language I can understand. This does come from someone who specialises in this field 🧵
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SA Premier insists ministers complied with code of conduct amid pork-barrelling accusations
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Liberal Kerrynne Liddle elected as first Indigenous senator from South Australia
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The money is being doled out within weeks of the election. The explanation offered is that Labor assessed and promised this money in opposition, and that many of the promises were in Liberal seats. Just so happens though that it was almost ONLY the Liberal seats they won
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The much-criticised federal sports grant scheme was $100m in total. SA’s government is handing out $84m to almost entirely Labor seats without any formal grant process.
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SA government denies accusations of pork barrelling over $84 million in sports grants abc.net.au/news/2022-06-1 via
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Word that Sebit Kuek has been drafted has finally reached tonight’s training session! 🥹 #foreverfreo
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A fundamental unfairness under SA's electoral funding laws.. independent candidates have to make their decision to run and apply for public funding on the day a by-election is called. Parties don't even preselect their candidates by that date
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Bragg By-election Funding Cut Off:
All political parties & returning candidates are reminded, that a 130Y certificate must be lodged with ECSA on or before 5:00 pm on 1 June 2022 (today).
Details at ecsa.sa.gov.au/?view=article&.
#saparli #savotes
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If you exclude Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Indi, Wentworth, Goldstein, Curtin and North Sydney from the count.. Labor's nationwide primary rises from 33 to 34.3.
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Talking about first preference and not acknowledging how ALP voters in very safe Lib seats chose to vote independent purely because they finally had a chance to vote out the Libs is weird
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Former Deputy Premier Vickie Chapman comprehensively cleared of any wrongdoing in her KI decision making. The Ombudsman has a big slap at the Labor-led committee which ordered he investigate her.
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Ombudsman clears former SA deputy premier Vickie Chapman of conflict of interest in port decision ab.co/3vAJr3E
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The SA parliament last year voted unanimously to gut ICAC. Now, it's just agreed unanimously to reinstall the MP who was the subject of an 18 month ICAC investigation into his allowance claims, back into the role of overseeing allowances.
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Liberal Terry Stephens returned as SA Legislative Council President with support of Greens and Labor abc.net.au/news/2022-05-0
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Quite a remarkable turn of events, given Labor's past commentary
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Labor has installed Liberal Terry Stephens as Upper House president.
Means they keep 9 MPs on the floor, only need one of Greens or SA Best to pass legislation - not both as previously
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There is some precedent for this… erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/5064/c
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Independent MP Fraser Ellis claims parliamentary privilege to exclude documents from deception trial abc.net.au/news/2022-04-2
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Independent MP Fraser Ellis claims parliamentary privilege to exclude documents from deception trial
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Can't wait for prospective Lib Leader David Speirs to sell to his colleagues the benefit of hosting Insiders on the side...
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OOPS: Liberal candidate Allison Bluck has been caught out in a bizarre false claim, telling Mayo voters she is “manager of the KI Nature Trail” – when the real manager is named Alison Buck. adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/1
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Labor in majority. Appointing independents as cabinet ministers, even when they don't need to. Nick Xenophon running for the Senate. Today is giving off 2006 vibes
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"The government's been defeated". Antony Green calls #savotes
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Our regional crews have all key stakeholders covered tonight. Watch #savotes on or listen on or your local ABC.
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Election night at independent candidate for Stuart, Geoff Brock’s. His cat seems to have found a good spot to watch the action, right in front of our camera. #SAVotes
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and we’re off!
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Bold strategy
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Former SA Labor MP and husband make election pitch after blackmail court appearance abc.net.au/news/2022-03-1
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My South Australian election guide is up an running. Here's the electorate index page with links to the rest of the site. abc.net.au/news/elections #saparli
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The federal scheme has a higher disclosure cap, and donations are only published once a year, months after the money is handed over. The state scheme requires reporting of donations over $5000 within 30 days
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Why? Well, maybe those donors wanted their money to be spent on federal campaigns. But perhaps more likely, the parties would prefer less scrutiny.
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Developers, for instance, overwhelmingly deal with state governments. However, some of the developer donations (and others) are reported under the federal disclosure scheme, not the state one.
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However, the state scheme only applies to donations which are spent for state campaign purposes. So in some instances, parties can pick and choose whether gifts are used for state or federal purposes.
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This I think exposes a major flaw in donation disclosures. The SA Electoral Commission has a far better, more transparent scheme than the AEC. Parties sign up to it in return for taxpayer funding.
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'Loving wife, mum, daughter, aunty, sister': Tributes flow for CFS volunteer killed in line of duty ab.co/3AmaiBi
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Vale Dean Jaensch. Always a deeply knowledgable, generous and genuine font of wisdom on politics
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Cases in SA if the current trend continues:
day cases 68% range
Wed: 3988 2940—5133
Thu: 3895 2803—5111
Fri: 3801 2672—5075
Sat: 3701 2533—5037
Sun: 3594 2406—4969
Mon: 3487 2274—4894
Tue: 3371 2147—4816
Halving time is 98.1 days.
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There are another 3,079 cases in South Australia and 2 deaths. The Reff is finally below 1 at 0.97 - Yay! There are 285 people in hospital (up 58), and 24 in ICU (down 2).
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The biggest one, classrooms will be open to children of "essential workers, and to vulnerable children.
It will be up to the parents themselves to determine whether they're in these categories.
In short, if you can't safely supervise your child at home, you can send to school.
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