November 2024
Labor’s golden boy pledges focus on economy
South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas promised not to succumb to hubris after a second resounding byelection win in eight months.
October 2024
Sanjeev Gupta’s grand designs on Sydney mansion
A City of Sydney development application lodged late last year lays bare the mogul’s plans for his historic Potts Point abode.
August 2022
Mike Rann’s ASX baptism of fire
The former SA premier is used to rough politics, but board seats are a different beast.
April 2022
ICAC case against MP may be thrown out after law overhaul
Fraser Ellis’ lawyer on Friday invoked new laws that curtailed the anti-corruption agency’s powers where parliamentary privilege is invoked.
How South Australia’s corruption watchdog was gutted
A parliamentary inquiry chaired by TV reporter-turned-politician Frank Pangallo provided the dynamite that politicians used to detonate the state ICAC’s powers.
November 2021
Federal ICAC looks fondly upon South Australia
The best thing to come out of Adelaide is still the road to Melbourne.
Why COVID-free SA’s reopening will be ‘tricky’
Premier Steven Marshall, whose minority government is in strife, takes a risk reopening a COVID-free state four months from an election.
February 2021
Joyce wins premiers’ support for border ceasefire
The Qantas chief executive has been meeting state leaders to push for a national standard on domestic borders by April
Victoria’s snap lockdown goes a step further than the rest
Victoria has joined WA, SA and Queensland in ordering a snap lockdown, but has gone a step further than most in locking down the entire state.
‘Calamitous’ border closures risk more deaths: TWU
Union and business leaders warned “calamitous” and “knee-jerk” border closures have put lives at risk after three trucks were in a fatal crash on the SA border.
November 2020
Ampol pushes 'Buy Australian' as it mulls shutdown of Qld refinery
Ampol has launched a $300 million buyback and the CEO says the rebadge of Caltex petrol stations to Ampol will help drive growth along with cost-cutting.
August 2020
SA orders 1100 students to self-isolate in new COVID-19 scare
SA authorities have ordered another 70 people into quarantine at a 'medi-hotel' after a new COVID-19 case connected to Thebarton Senior College in Adelaide.
NSW entering 'red zone' as SA on high alert
An epidemiologist has warned that despite the low daily count NSW has reported more than 170 cases over two weeks and is at risk of the virus spiralling out of control.
July 2020
Fifth SA Liberal steps down from senior role over perks saga
The list of resignations from senior positions over expenses entitlements is growing ever longer for SA Premier Steven Marshall's government.
Former Collingwood player appointed to SA cabinet
Stephen Patterson, who played 96 matches for Collingwood in the late 1990s, is one of three new faces in South Australia Premier Steven Marshall's new cabinet.
November 2019
Tesla's big battery to grow by 50pc
The world’s biggest lithium-ion battery will also provide "inertia" to the power grid, a capability which South Australia lost when the Northern and Playford coal-fired power plants closed.
July 2019
SA to privatise operations of metro trains, trams
The CEO of Keolis Downer, which operates the Yarra Trams network in Melbourne, is keen to win an outsourcing contract in Adelaide.