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February

Sanjeev Gupta with SA Premier Peter Malinauskas in Adelaide in 2022.

How Gupta’s ill-fated Whyalla ownership unravelled

Sanjeev Gupta has lost Adelaide’s politicians, and with them, his last loyal constituency.

January

Mike Baird and Jay Weatherill will be joining forces at the Susan McKinnon Foundation.

Down cudgels: Baird and Weatherill push for more civility in politics

The 2025 election campaign has begun with insults on both sides of politics. These two former premiers want a better political discourse.

March 2024

The support base for Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party is getting bigger.

State polls position Albanese for a second term

Polling booths around the country show Labor’s support base is growing enough for another narrow federal win.

February 2024

No other agency in government knows how to deal with multiple vulnerabilities, says Sandy Pitcher, the CEO of the South Australian Human Services department.

Battler for the underdog on being the department of last resort

South Australia has long been a leader in innovative social policy and services. After a series of leadership roles in Victoria and SA, Sandy Pitcher wants her staff to take pride in being the place the most vulnerable can turn to.

April 2023

Business was hostile to former prime minister Julia Gillard’s climate plans.

Julia Gillard-led inquiry calls for three-year-olds to do preschool

A royal commission headed by Julia Gillard into early childhood education has recommended universal preschool be extended to all South Australian three-year-olds.

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May 2022

Former AGL CEO Andy Vesey will join Fortescue.

Forrest gets the gang back together

Is the iron ore mogul attempting to relive the energy wars of 2018 entirely within the various arms of his empire?

March 2022

South Australian “Godfather” Don Farrell: second time’s a charm.

As Wong and Pyne flounder, Farrell ascends

Don Farrell’s second ascendancy is all the more notable for the recent fortunes of the state’s other major political identities.

December 2021

SA Premier Steven Marshall says he will not rule out the option of border closure.

SA must hold its nerve on the border

With a double-jabbed rate of 82 per cent in South Australia, there is no evidence so far to justify an overreaction to the emergence of the more infectious omicron variant.

Former SA Premier Jay Weatherill was hired by iron ore billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest last year, and now lives in Perth, but was in SA over the past few days and caught COVID at a Henley High School reunion.

Concerns Adelaide high school reunion may be a COVID-19 super-spreader

SA Premier Steven Marshall says ‘you can’t keep it out’ after SA recorded 18 cases, including former premier Jay Weatherill.

October 2021

SA Premier Steven Marshall faces an election on March 19 but factional squabbles have risen to the surface. A Liberal defector was installed as speaker in SA’s lower house at midnight on Tuesday after an extraordinary coup.

South Australian Liberals in turmoil as defector takes key role

A midnight coup in SA’s parliament resulted in defector MP Dan Cregan seizing the Speaker’s role, unleashing factional turmoil.

April 2021

The industrial commission dismissed a childcare worker’s claim that she had been unfairly fired for refusing a vaccine.

Upping the budget ante on childcare

The Morrison government is facing pressure from unions to business to greatly boost its contribution to childcare costs as part of a more women-friendly budget.

February 2021

David Rowe

Parliament plays catch-up with the rest of society

The events of this week have highlighted just how quickly the government’s fortunes can run off the rails and how the political prism is alive and well.

January 2021

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says Australia Day should change to a future date when the nation votes to become a republic.

Malcolm Turnbull, Sam Mostyn, Sue Cato lead Australia Day honours

The former prime minister joined the banking boss and PR supremo as the latest recipients of Australia’s top honours – but there was still a hint of controversy surrounding Margaret Court’s award.

October 2020

Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Reform window will soon open, but will anyone jump through?

An election-free period from March next year offers the Morrison government a rare opportunity to push on economic reform – if it's brave enough to try.

The Prime Minister used Tuesday's meeting of Coalition MPs to play down the prospect of a 2021 federal election.

Australia to be relatively poll free for next 18 months

Next calendar year promises to be almost devoid of election politics after Scott Morrison hosed down the prospect of an early poll, making a date in 2022 more likely.

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August 2020

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Forrests say childcare beats construction as bang-for-buck stimulus

Andrew and Nicola Forrest want an overhaul of childcare as part of the multibillion-dollar economic stimulus packages being rolled out in the wake of COVID-19.

June 2020

Gas producers operating in Queensland say it will be easier to invest in the future after the state government simplified its royalty scheme.

New Queensland gas royalty scheme more 'transparent'

Gas producers are pleased the Queensland government is dumping a complicated scheme for determining royalty payments.

May 2020

Annastacia Palaszczuk.

States to back permanent national cabinet – with caution

Some state leaders have warned Scott Morrison that attacks on them by his ministers could threaten the new era of cooperation. 

February 2020

 NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet wants a more efficient federal system.

Why the NSW Treasurer is pushing reform uphill

Experts agree that change is needed to make Australia's federation more efficient. But most politicians are aware voters are deeply suspicious.

December 2019

Jay Weatherill (front) is off to live in Western Australia in his new job.

Twiggy Forrest lures ex-SA Premier Jay Weatherill to WA

Jay Weatherill will become CEO of the Thrive by Five early education arm and report to a former NAB executive at the Minderoo Foundation.

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