FOUR days to go to the most fascinating South Australian state election ever. The detailed results will take many more days. This frustrates some onlookers, who demand to know everything immediately. Dean Jaensch explains why our patience will pay off.
ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander correctly called the minister’s alleged lack of knowledge about Oakden “breathtaking”, but there’s much we still don’t know, writes Dean Jaensch.
JAY Weatherill’s official election slogan may be “Standing Up for South Australia” but it may as well be “The Kids are All Right”, writes Michael McGuire.
FEW are prepared to do it, but Rex Jory is going to — predict how SA’s closest election so far will play out. Here’s what he thinks may happen, and who’s most likely to be in power after March.
IF you were to devise a spectrum of ministerial oversight in relation to the Oakden nursing home scandal, with one classified as incessant micro-management and 10 as not giving a damn, you would award the Weatherill Government a 9.9, says David Penberthy. TAKE OUR POLL
GIVING young people the right to vote at 16 in state or federal elections is fraught with danger, writes Caleb Bond.
THEY can’t propose reasonable new polices. They can’t contribute to debate. As MPs, they don’t know what they’re doing. They’re seatwarmers — and we’re about get even more at the State Election, writes Rex Jory. But it’s partly the voters’ fault.
IF the Liberals come up short by one or two seats and the only route to power is through Xenophon, what will they do, writes Michael McGuire.
HE’S has had his share of clandestine meetings as an investigative journalist, but never as a source of damaging information. If you are going to go around town trying to dig up dirt on candidates, expect to be caught out, Colin James writes.
PREMIER Jay Weatherill has made the State v Commonwealth contest an art form and the fight over the River Murray his crowning glory. Now on the doorstep of the state election, he’s been gifted a rematch, Sheradyn Holderhead writes.
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