Boothby’s Labor candidate Louise Miller-Frost pictured with Premier Malinauskas for federal campaign

Labor’s Louise Miller-Frost’s latest election campaigning letterbox drop features the SA Premier rather than the Prime Minister.

Louise Miller-Frost's flyer for the federal seat of Boothby that features SA Premier Peter Malinauskas.

Labor’s Louise Miller-Frost has opted for a picture with SA Premier Peter Malinauskas rather than the Prime Minister for campaign flyers being delivered throughout the knife-edge federal seat of Boothby.

Although Ms Frost is fighting for a federal seat, she is pictured with the Premier and Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong on the distinctive red cards being dropped into her local electorate’s letterboxes

The flyer is emblazoned with the words “Louise Miller-Frost MP, Senator Penny Wong and Peter Malinauskas Delivering for South Australia”.

Ms Miller-Frost holds the seat with a 3.3 per cent margin and on Wednesday hosted a campaign launch with federal health minister Mark Butler and Premier Peter Malinauskas.

Mr Malinauskas has won a constantly high approval rating among SA voters, a recent DemoAus poll showed he had a 28 per cent lead as preferred premier in SA to the Liberal’s Vincent Tarzia.

Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, in Adelaide with Premier Peter Malinauskas and Louise Miller-Frost to announce the use of a third tunnelling machine for the South Road project last year. Picture: NewsWire / Dean Martin

There were about 170 people at the Marion Hotel for the launch this week and Ms Miller-Frost pointed to a new women’s health centre, tram crossings and road upgrades among achievements during her current term.

Mr Albanese attended her last campaign launch in 2022, but failed to attend this week.

However, Ms Miller-Frost said Mr Albanese had already visited Boothby on at least four occasions since he was elected as PM.

“I’m a proud member of Anthony Albanese’s Labor Government, and alongside my South Australian federal colleagues, including Penny Wong, I have worked closely with Peter Malinauskas and his government to deliver for my community in health, education, infrastructure, and the River Murray,” she said.

The Liberal Party is backing Nicolle Flint who returned to politics in August 2023 as the state Liberal Party rural and regional chair, after she quit the seat of Boothby after two terms concerned about sexism and harassment.

Boothby stretches from Brighton in the west to Belair in Adelaide’s foothills and includes the suburbs of Warradale, Marion and Mitcham.

In the 2022 federal election, Ms Miller-Frost defeated Liberal candidate Rachel Swift, claiming 53.3 per cent of the vote on a two-party preferred basis, before that the Liberal Party held Boothby for more than 70 years.

Ms Flint indicated she would be campaigning on the cost of living including power prices and claimed “Labor have not delivered a single major infrastructure project in three years”.