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Paul Ashenden is a senior reporter with The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. He has held a range of senior roles in newsrooms around Australia, including editor of the Sunday Mail and editor of SAWeekend magazine, and is a passionate storyteller.

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Paul Ashenden

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Opinion

This Budget has teeth — can the Liberals sell it?

SOUTH Australians voted for change, and it’s coming whether they like it or not. State Political Editor Daniel Wills analyses the likely fallout from the new Liberal Government’s first Budget.

SA News

SA Best leader Nick Xenophon (centre) with candidates Connie Bonaros (left) and Frank Pangallo (right) outside SA Parliament.

SA Best shuts up shop on trading hours

PREMIER Steven Marshall’s hopes of quickly deregulating shop trading hours and capping council rates look set to be killed off by an obstinate Upper House.

SA 2018

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill (left) and Minister for Health Peter Malinauskas arrive at a media conference to announce a Mental Health policy in Adelaide, Tuesday, February 27, 2018. (AAP Image/Kelly Barnes) NO ARCHIVING

Malinauskas silent on Labor leadership as factions jostle

RISING star Peter Malinauskas remains coy about whether he’ll seek the Labor leadership, as speculation mounts that a major factional stoush is brewing after 20 years of peace.

SA 2018

Young businessman standing on edge of rock mountain and looking

What SA needs to do catch up to other states

WITH the election just days away, economist Saul Eslake runs his eye over our financial position, and examines how we need to narrow the economic divide between South Australia and the rest of the nation.

SA 2018

18/02/18 - Premier Jay Weatherill at the Labor launches election campaign at the Adelaide Convention Centre.Picture: Tom Huntley

Jay has some cause to smile

WITH just three weeks from the election, major bookmakers have tipped Premier Jay Weatherill to secure Labor a fifth term – but it won’t be totally his party’s way. What do you think — VOTE NOW

SA News

It’s time to let the Marree Man be

THE lengthy investigation into the rejuvenation of the iconic Marree Man would be scrapped if the Liberal Party forms government at next month’s election.

SA 2018

Public transport - Adelaide Metro bus during a ''dead running'' or Ghost run through King William Street, Adelaide. Buses running with a 'not in service' sign are usually travelling between routes.

Free public transport promised for over 60s 24/7

EVERYONE over the age of 60 will have access to free public transport, 24 hours a day, under a policy announced by SA Best today.

SA 2018

South Australian Leaders (L to R) Mark Parnell, SA Best Leader Nick Xenophon, Liberal leader Steven Marshall and Premier Jay Weaherill at the Party Leaders environment debate at the Science Exchange in Adelaide. Tuesday, February 20, 2018. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING

Greens reduce leaders to hurl insults, one-liners

IT WAS the one debate that Jay Weatherill, Steven Marshall and Nick Xenophon could never hope to win.

SA 2018

Senator Cory Bernardi unexpectedly meets Nick Xenophon outside SAHMRI during the SA Best health policy launch. Pic Brad Crouch

Bernardi’s Conservatives announce 33 state election candidates

CORY Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives party has announced it will field 33 lower house and two upper house candidates at the March 17 state election.

SA News

Emily Meyrick - 12yrs and Jacob Holding - 7yrs pose for a photograph Adelaide Oval, Adelaide on Wednesday the 14th of February 2018. The NRL State of Origin will come to Adelaide Oval in 2020 for the first time. (AAP/ Keryn Stevens)

The price of luring Origin to the Oval

THE State Government is shelling out millions of dollars to bring the State of Origin rugby league game between New South Wales and Queensland to Adelaide Oval in 2020.

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