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Paul Starick
Paul StarickEditor at large

Paul Starick is The Advertiser’s editor at large, with more than 30 years’ experience in Adelaide, Canberra and New York. Paul has a focus on politics and an intense personal interest in sport, particularly footy and cricket.

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18/12/2017 SA politician Nick Xenophon  Kelly Barnes/The Australia

X looks at return from exile

POLITICAL shooting star Nick Xenophon, who has briefly emerged from exile, is considered likely to make a comeback to state politics — eventually.

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South Australian premier Jay Weatherill with Tesla's Elon Musk . Picture: Facebook

Electric Elon’s empire hits the skids

TECH billionaire Elon Musk soared into Adelaide in a blaze of glory almost a year ago, feted by a beaming Jay Weatherill. But now it’s all going wrong for the eccentric entrepreneur, with bizarre antics and an attempted boardroom putsch.

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Margin Call: Bianca Rinehart in the Pilbara in a white Gucci

Another big name swept up in public sector purge

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.

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The future of the old RAH site?

The future of the old RAH site?

A BUILDING featuring a dramatic “super lobby”, suspended rooftop garden and a “performance lab” has won an international design competition launched by the former state government. What do you think? — VOTE NOW.

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26-03-14 - Kevin Foley at Adelaide Oval. Picture Dean Martin

Foley loses lucrative role as Lib purge rolls on

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.

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South Australian Premier Mike Rann (L) looks on as cyclist Lance Armstrong holds a Tour Down Under press conference in Adelaide, South Australia.

Inside Lance Armstrong’s secret TDU contract

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.

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Photos of Alice Dawkins winner of the 2018 Schwarzman Scholarship. She's a former Loreto School student and daughter of Federal Education Minister Joh Dawkins. Embargoed until Dec 5th 2017. Picture: Dylan Coker

Dynasty Season 2 in the Adelaide Hills

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.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 19:  Mitchell Johnson of Australia during day four of the 2nd Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Lord's Cricket Ground on July 19, 2015 in London, United Kingdom.  (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)

How’d you like to own a piece of Lord’s?

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?

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12/4/18 -  state Labor leader Peter Malinauskas and family - wife Annabel, daughter Sophie,3 and son Jack (7 months) at Emu Park in Bowden. -  Photo Naomi Jellicoe

Love story driving new Labor leader

A LOVE story forged in the stricken aftermath of World War II is driving new Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas’s rebuilding of the state Labor Party. Paul Starick reports.

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