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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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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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Parties wipe X off the map

Parties wipe X off the map

NICK Xenophon will effectively disappear from the parties he founded — as the federal arm rebrands itself as Centre Alliance and the state branch sheds his name to become SA-Best.

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Wayne Eagleson, former chief of staff to New Zealand primeminister John Key. Source: LinkedIn profile

Kiwi shepherds Marshall’s flock

This week in Off The Record, why the man dubbed New Zealand’s “most influential unelected official” has been in town, SA’s blackout woes spread to government documents and the ‘First Lady’ of oil and gas leading the push for SA’s biggest company.

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Premier of South Australia Steven Marshall (left) and Dennis Hood speak to press in Adelaide, Monday, March 26, 2018. Australian Conservatives SA MP Dennis Hood is to join the new Liberal state government. (AAP Image/Morgan Sette) NO ARCHIVING

Defecting Lib MP to push for nuclear dump

NEW Liberal MP Dennis Hood will agitate for the State Government to revive plans to store high-level nuclear waste in SA, after he abandoned Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives in a shock post-election move.

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