THE Liberal purge of the public sector claims the scalp of another ex-Labor MP, there’s a new light in Jay Weatherill’s life and Gina Rinehart’s daughter is spending big in SA — but not how you might expect. It’s all the latest gossip … Off The Record.
IN this week’s Off the Record, a Labor luminary loses his job as the new Liberal government cleans house, more moving and shaking in the public service, the battle for Mayo heats up and the businessman who tried to outbid billionaire Gina Rinehart.
IT’S been nearly 10 years, but South Australian taxpayers will finally soon learn details of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong’s secret TDU contract, Off The Record can reveal, along with a dirty dossier on Georgina Downer.
ANOTHER South Australian political dynasty is bidding to take on Georgina Downer in Mayo, we reveal in this week’s Off the Record column. Also find out what was behind a minister’s heated spray at an “overtly racist” act, plus we spot a former Premier and PM lunching together.
WHAT do Adelaide Crows captain Taylor Walker and British Prime Minister Theresa May have in common? How much was paid out to five sacked state public service executives? Why is going from the ALP to ABC as easy as 1,2,3? Find out in this week’s Off the Record column.
WHAT do Adelaide Crows captain Taylor Walker and British Prime Minister Theresa May have in common? How much was paid out to five sacked state public service executives? Why is going from the ALP to ABC as easy as 1,2,3? Find out in this week’s Off the Record column.
THIS week in Off The Record; How you can own your own piece of Lord’s cricket ground, the Libs plans to recapture the seat of Mayo take an interesting twist, our State Library director checks himself out and faked potato anyone?
ADVERTISING guru Bill Muirhead managed to get it absolutely the wrong way around when he suggested renaming South Australia as Adelaide. If you extend the conclusion to its logical end we’d rename Australia as Sydney, writes Michael McGuire.
THIS week; the behind-the-scenes operators jostling for supremacy in the $13.5b Santos takeover bid, why Port Adelaide has not found a joint major partner to replace Renault, the latest public service appointments and Jay Weatherill’s legal stoush with a former opponent.
PRENATAL testing is driving an increase in terminations of Down syndrome babies around the world. Critics say this push for perfection is not a health precaution, but eugenics in action.
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