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Matthew Abraham is a veteran journalist, Sunday Mail columnist, and long-time breakfast radio presenter.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos May 17, 2021: South Australian Premier Steven Marshall looks on as Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack speaks to the media during a visit the Heysen tunnels in Adelaide. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Mariuz

The seven deadly sins of Team Marshall

No government is without sin, writes Matthew Abraham. Here’s how, in Matt’s view, Team Marshall has fallen foul of the big seven.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 26, 2021: Prime Minister Scott Morrison meets CSL staff working on the COVID vaccine while he tours the company's facility in Melbourne. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw - POOL via NCA NewsWire

Botched rollout hands victory to loopy anti-vax brigade

The “roll your sleeves down” campaign has achieved in a few short weeks what the loopy anti-vaxxers have failed to do for decades, writes Mattew Abraham.

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Premier Steven Marshall, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer DrEmily Kirkpatrick , Police Commissioner Grant Stevens and SA Health Minister Stephen Wade to give daily Covid-19 update. The presser was held at Detmold Group where masks are being made, in brompton on the 30.11.2020. Pic Tait Schmaal.

Imagine making Grant Stevens the Premier

SA’s Police commissioner has spent a lot of time at the state’s helm during the COVID crisis. Matthew Abraham ponders making it permanent.

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Don’t sugar-coat it, euthanasia is state-sponsored suicide

If SA’s Parliament crosses the threshold and votes to legalise euthanasia, there’ll be no going back, writes Matthew Abraham.

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Opening of Rundle Mall, Adelaide, 1976. Picture: Advertiser Library

Mr Marshall, tear down this mall!

It’s time to rip up Rundle Mall and run over all the orange witches hats ruining Adelaide’s reputation as the 20-minute city writes Matthew Abraham. What do you think?

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SA politician John Bannon and his wife Angela walking through the garden at Government House, Adelaide, for his swearing-in as SA Premier. His mother, Mrs Joyce Bannon, is behind him to the right and advisers Geoff Anderson and Mike Rann are behind Angela to the right, 10 Nov 1982. (Pic by unidentified staff photographer)

Sometimes a negative can actually be a positive

In journalism, COVID tests and car battery cables, negatives can actually be positives, writes Matthew Abraham.

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Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Castle Hill Medical Centre in Sydney on February 21, 2021. (Photo by Steven SAPHORE / AFP)

Here’s a crazy idea — let us choose the vaccine we want!

Forget all the silly phases. The government should just get on with it and let Australians choose the vaccine they want, writes Matthew Abraham.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - Advertiser Photos APRIL 14, 2021: Former Labor MP Annabel Digance hiding in the back seat of a car being driven into the Magistrates court. Annabel Digance and her husband Greg have been arrested at their Adelaide Hills home and charged with blackmailing Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas.The pair were arrested by Major Crime detectives this morning at their Strathalbyn home, the couple were formally charged and are expected to appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court later today. Picture: Emma Brasier

Digance charges a stroke of good luck for wounded Libs

The various legal woes of Liberal MPs have been a rolled-gold gift for state Labor. That smugness was blown right out of the water this week with the Digance charges, writes Matthew Abraham.

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 7, 2021: General coverage of the flight QF663 arriving from Brisbane at Adelaide Airport. South Australia will lift the final border restrictions for visitors from Brisbane and Byron Bay within days after a transition committee meeting.Under current rules, travellers are required to get a COVID test on days 5 and 13 and are banned from venues or events with more than 1000 people.From Friday, those from Byron can freely travel here - and from Monday for travellers from Greater Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Naomi Jellicoe

Is there a vaccine for dumb decisions?

As Easter proved, the vaccine may protect you from COVID, but Matthew Abraham reckons it won’t save you from snap decisions that can up-end your life.

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Liberal candidate Carolyn Habib holding the offending Labor leaflet at the 2014 SA election.

Labor’s ‘sorry, not sorry’ adds insult to injury

As meaningless apologies go, you’d have to go a long way to find one quite so ridiculous as SA Labor’s to Carolyn Power last week, writes Matthew Abraham.

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