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@alpsa
SA Labor
2 years
BREAKING NEWS: Labor has won the booth of Burnside in the Bragg by-election. This is a blue ribbon booth that Vickie Chapman won 57 to 43 at the state election.
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SA Labor
2 years
@PRGuy17 @MatthewGuyMP Even we got blocked
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SA Labor
2 years
BREAKING NEWS: Liberal @MichaelSukkarMP caught plagiarising almost word for word SA Labor election ad. #auspol #vicpol #springst
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SA Labor
3 years
#BREAKING : SA Health reveals it is expecting to receive only 70,000 doses of paediatric vaccine for 5-11 year olds before school is set to begin at the end of January - despite the fact there are 144,000 children in that age group in SA who are eligible.
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SA Labor
3 years
BREAKING NEWS: Professor Nicola Spurrier recommend that the borders should be closed. So clearly the Marshall Liberal Govt did not follow the health advice.
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SA Labor
2 years
This is not a fake headline. The SA Liberals are calling in Alan Jones and Katherine Deves to chart a new course.
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SA Labor
4 years
The SA border with NSW opened just in time for a Liberal Party fundraiser and AGM. Go figure. #auspol #saparli
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7NEWS Brisbane
4 years
Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP has touched down in South Australia a short time ago for tomorrow's Liberal Party AGM in Adelaide. He will be at the new Adelaide Oval Hotel tonight for a party fundraiser. #auspol #7NEWS
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SA Labor
3 years
Steven Marshall been telling us for 2 years that decisions about COVID restrictions were based on health advice. Now a leaked email alleges he “would welcome some positive industry comment & support if he is successful in persuading the Police Commissioner” to relax restrictions
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SA Labor
2 years
This is what a team looks like. Congratulations to the new Labor MPs - Nadia Clancy, Olivia Savvas, @LucyHood , Erin Thompson and Rhiannon Pearce!
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SA Labor
3 months
BREAKING NEWS: Premier @PMalinauskasMP has just announced he will introduce legislation to ban ALL political donations.
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SA Labor
3 years
BREAKING NEWS: Reports @marshall_steven has cut funding to the Hutt Street Centre. If he can find $700 million for a basketball stadium surely he can find funding for homelessness services. If confirmed this will be one of the Liberals nastiest cuts.
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SA Labor
6 years
Not only does Alexander Downer think his family is entitled to the seat of #Mayo He also is a double dipper! #auspol
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SA Labor
7 years
💥 President of the Senate: GONE 💥 Deputy Prime Minister: GONE 💥 Deputy Nationals Leader: GONE 💥 Cabinet Minister’s office caught leaking AFP raid to media 💥 Leader of the House exposed encouraging independent to run against a Liberal (And that’s just the past week.)
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SA Labor
4 years
You can't make this stuff up. Watch what happens when @marshall_steven is caught out wearing hard hats and hi-vis for no reason.
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SA Labor
6 years
Now she is the Liberal Candidate for Mayo, Georgina Downer says that her position is clear on #OurABC and she supports #OurABC But what does Georgina Downer really think about #OurABC ? See for yourself. #auspol
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SA Labor
3 years
Not one Liberal turned up today to support the South Australian Ukrainian community.
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SA Labor
3 months
The company that owns the Port Augusta site where Peter Dutton wants to build a nuclear power station says it has heard nothing from the Liberal Party about its plans and is continuing with its $100 million redevelopment of the area. via @thetiser
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SA Labor
3 years
FACT: SA under Steven Marshall now only makes up only 2.9% of the national share of exports. Down from 4% under Labor.
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SA Labor
3 years
This. Is. Huge. The troubles of this scandal-plagued government now go all the way to the top.
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SA Labor
6 years
A message from former @AustralianLabor Prime Minister, Bob Hawke.
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SA Labor
4 years
BREAKING: Steven Marshall's parliamentary whip Adrian Pederick is resigning amid the Liberal expenses scandal.
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SA Labor
5 years
Liberals spent $1.7m of taxpayers money to save Nicolle Flint
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SA Labor
6 years
BREAKING: SA Liberals have shut down the House of Assembly after losing 3 votes on floor. This is a government in chaos. #saparli
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SA Labor
3 years
BREAKING NEWS: Just days after telling voters that Australia was at that stage of the pandemic where you can‘t “just go around and make everything free”, the PM has confirmed they are free for him at work and for other ministers. via @newscomauHQ #auspol
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SA Labor
2 years
@SALibMedia Oh boy, this is a shocker. Perhaps you should have checked when the survey was conducted before tweeting. Feb 14-March 13, 2022. Hint: When you were in government!
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SA Labor
6 years
With Georgina Downer deleting her twitter account and trying to airbrush her IPA and Victorian Liberal Party history, check out this new website to get the facts about the Liberals candidate in Mayo.
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SA Labor
7 years
Funny how @JoshFrydenberg heaped praise on a 5MW battery project - but when it comes to Labor's 100MW battery, it's just not enough! #auspol
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SA Labor
6 years
BREAKING: SA Liberals to privatise power generators purchased by Labor to secure our power network. Just like they privatised ETSA they are now privatising another power asset.
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SA Labor
5 years
Well this is embarrassing. @marshall_steven used the London Underground as an example for his decision to privatise our trams and trains. The London Underground was actually a failed privatisation and is now back in government hands.
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SA Labor
3 years
BREAKING NEWS: A Malinauskas Labor Government will axe Steven Marshall's electric vehicle tax. We should be doing everything we can to encourage people to purchase cleaner, electric vehicles, not whacking a new tax on them.
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SA Labor
7 years
Premier @JayWeatherill has just announced a re-elected Labor Government will inject a further $100 million into skills, with at least 70% for @tafesa . This is in stark contrasts with the Liberals who will privatise TAFE.
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SA Labor
3 years
BREAKING NEWS: The Adelaide 500 is back this year in December under a Malinauskas Labor Government.
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SA Labor
3 years
4 years ago today #auspol
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ABC News
7 years
Watch SA Premier @JayWeatherill shirtfront Federal Energy Minister @JoshFrydenberg on live TV, after gatecrashing the presser #auspol
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SA Labor
3 years
South Australia, YOU did the right thing. You locked down. You isolated. You wore masks. You got tested. You got vaccinated. You did your job. He didn’t do his 👇
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SA Labor
6 years
Former Premier @JayWeatherill has announced he is retiring from Parliament. Thank you Jay for your extraordinary service to the Labor Party and more importantly to the people of South Australia.
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SA Labor
7 years
Did u tell him u thought renewable energy was an ideological obsession & of your plans to subsidise coal power? @TurnbullMalcolm @elonmusk
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SA Labor
6 years
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: What real leadership on the River Murray looks like
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SA Labor
7 years
#BREAKING : South Australia is establishing a Royal Commission into widespread allegations upstream irrigators are stealing water from the Murray-Darling Basin.
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SA Labor
7 years
When you think you’re off air... 😳 @JoshFrydenberg
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SA Labor
3 years
VIDEO: Male Liberal MP calls female MPs "the B Team". An utterly disgraceful remark. #EnoughIsEnough #March4Justice
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SA Labor
3 years
BREAKING NEWS: Details leaked to the Opposition about a speech David Speirs gave at a Liberal Party fundraiser last night that included attacking climate change activists and that business leaders should lobby the Premier to give him a new job.
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SA Labor
6 years
Double Dipping Downer
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SA Labor
6 years
BREAKING: Marshall Liberal Government loses control of the House of Assembly. Four Liberals cross the floor to vote with Labor.
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Adam Langenberg
6 years
Steve Murray, Nick McBride, Dan Cregan, Troy Bell and Fraser Ellis side with Labor to adjourn off Mining Bill
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SA Labor
9 months
Oh dear! Looks like SA Liberal MLC Heidi Girolamo needs a lesson in Australian History.
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SA Labor
6 years
On this day in 1972, Gough Whitlam was elected Prime Minister of Australia #auspol
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SA Labor
6 years
Congratulations to the new member for Enfield Andrea Michaels
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SA Labor
6 years
BREAKING: @SAElectoralCom finds Steven Marshall has been “inaccurate and misleading” in relation to his energy plan’s savings to households. Liberals ordered to publish a retraction and correction to South Australians.
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SA Labor
2 years
Don’t you hate it when facts get in the way of a photo op!
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SA Labor
1 year
SA Green Senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Barbara Pocock are teaming up with Dutton's Liberals to stop legislation that will see the construction of homes for South Australia’s most vulnerable. It's a disgrace
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SA Labor
7 years
The New York Times hails South Australia's new battery as "one of this century's first great engineering marvels"
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SA Labor
2 years
This is huge!!
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Antony Green - elections
2 years
Labor recorded a majority in the 2,000 pre-polls counted today in Waite. There are only 3,000 votes left to count, not enough for the Liberal Party to close Labor's 1,440 vote lead. Catherine Hutchesson becomes the first Labor MP for Waite. #saparli #sapol
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SA Labor
5 years
It is the day before an election and we know why @marshall_steven has been hidden away from the media. #votelabor #auspol
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SA Labor
7 years
Here it is. In black and white. Former Liberal @Nick_Xenophon made a solemn pledge to teachers he would fund Gonski in full. Last year, he teamed up with the Liberals and betrayed SA's teachers, cutting $210m from SA schools. Nick Xenophon talks independent, votes Liberal.
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SA Labor
3 years
Labor’s commitment is simple
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SA Labor
5 years
Privatising trains and trams is a blatant broken promise. Here’s Steven Marshall in February last year, just before the election: “We don’t have a privatisation agenda.”
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SA Labor
3 years
"Avoided disaster" Really? Say that to the SA businesses which have been crippled. Say that to the people ramped. Say that to the people who had elective surgery cancelled. Say that to the 100s in hospital with COVID. Say that to the families of the people who have died.
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SA Labor
5 years
Nicolle Flint signed the petition to tear down Turnbull and install Peter Dutton as Prime Minister. She was the ninth person to sign off on Turnbull’s fate, even beating Peter Dutton.
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SA Labor
3 years
Here are the facts. Dec 4: Prof. Spurrier recommends closing the border. At that point, Omicron was a known variant of concern but had not been detected in SA yet. The Marshall Liberal Govt ignored Spurrier’s advice. Dec 26: SA recorded 774 cases.
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SA Labor
7 years
PM @TurnbullMalcolm loves taking selfies on Adelaide's trams and trains built by Labor. He just doesn't like funding them. #budget2017
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SA Labor
5 years
BREAKING NEWS: SA's Big Tesla Battery is about to get a whole lot bigger. Check out this footage of the large road trains carrying the Powerpacks for Hornsdale Power Reserve. The expansion of could see it increased by around 50% Another initiative Labor was proud to deliver.
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SA Labor
6 years
When you thought you were finally the boss, and then you realise, you’re not the boss.
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SA Labor
2 years
Screenshot recorded on the presumption @SALibMedia will soon delete this. The Liberals were trying to score a cheap political point on the Global Livability Ranking. Just one problem: the survey was conducted between Feb 14-March 13, 2022 - when they were still in government!
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SA Labor
3 years
Did Scomo just call Adelaide a shitty city?
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SA Labor
2 years
@Matt_KeanMP Stronger economy? Not what the latest @CommBank State of States says
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SA Labor
7 years
Future vs Past
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SA Labor
3 years
Why is Steven Marshall more focused on whether you can go to Coles or Woolies at 2 o’clock in the morning, rather than whether you can get an ambulance at 2 o’clock in the afternoon?
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SA Labor
7 years
Believe it or not, this bloke with the lump of coal is Australia's Energy Minister. This is why SA must take charge of its energy future.
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SA Labor
3 years
Front Page of The Advertiser three years ago. Today they are announcing they are "locking in" the money. Meanwhile 3 years has passed and nothing is happening on the north-south corridor. No construction, no jobs.
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SA Labor
6 years
Congratulations to the new member for Cheltenham @joe_szakacs
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SA Labor
4 years
South Australians have had to scramble to change plans when @marshall_steven re-introduced a cap of 100 people for weddings & funerals Yet the Liberals will tonight host an event at @TheAdelaideOval for 700 people Why is there one rule for the Libs & another for everyone else?
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SA Labor
5 years
Remember when @Birmo called government advertising “a corruption of democracy”? Yet he remains silent as his party racks up $600,000 a day in taxpayer advertising just days before an election is called. #auspol
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Simon Birmingham
7 years
Yet another weekend of full page SA govt advertising, blatantly selling Labor’s political messages. Jay Weatherill’s use of taxpayer funds to dodge the spending caps imposed on political parties is a corruption of democracy. #SAparli
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SA Labor
6 years
Yes, Minister Wade
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SA Labor
3 years
The only person that hasn't been working on his body of policies is @marshall_steven Tell us Steven Marshall, besides a $662 million Basketball Stadium what are your election policies for the future?
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SA Labor
6 years
SA’s Tesla battery is such a success it’s on track to make back a third of its cost in a year 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 Of course, according to SA’s Minister for Coal Dan van Holst Pellekaan, it’s a “rushed, chaotic and expensive fix” 🤦🏻‍♂️
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SA Labor
6 years
Congratulations @JayWeatherill !
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SA Labor
5 years
In today’s @thetiser , @cpyne says that he never promised 90% local content. Judge for yourself. Here is Pyne on 26 June 2017 talking about the new submarine contract awarded to DCNS (now Naval). He clearly states 90%. Pyne is misleading your readers @TiserOpinion #auspol
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Sky News Australia
7 years
. @cpyne : The Osborne shipyard will employ over 5,000 people with over 90 per cent of them Australian workers. #auspol
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SA Labor
7 years
BREAKING NEWS: @jayweatherill has just announced Trams will return to the heart of Norwood for the first time in more than 60 years under a re-elected Labor Government.
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SA Labor
7 years
South Australia is once again creating global headlines for our international leadership in renewable energy. 🌎 Biggest lithium ion battery 🌍 Biggest solar thermal plant 🌏 Biggest virtual power plant
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SA Labor
7 years
Labor today announced a plan that would see South Australia take charge of its energy future. #saparli #auspol #ourenergyplan
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SA Labor
7 years
BREAKING: @JayWeatherill just announced a $2bn infrastructure jobs package. Includes: removing 7 level-crossings, expanding our tram network and establishing a multi-use, bulk-commodity port in the Spencer Gulf #savotes2018 #standingupforsa #sa #savotes
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SA Labor
3 years
BIG NEWS for Whyalla. A Malinauskas Labor Government will build a Hydrogen power station, electrolyser and storage facility in Whyalla, powering new jobs and industry in South Australia.
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SA Labor
6 years
Here it is, in all its glory. A Minister of the Crown saying something, then realising he shouldn't have said it, and asking the media not to report it. This actually happened.
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SA Labor
6 years
Labor will build: ⚓️ a new port 🚃building two new tram extensions 🚉removing seven level crossings 💻ultrafast broadband for business 🏡600 new Housing Trust homes The Liberals have only committed to: 🤦‍♂️ripping up tram tracks & putting in a right hand turn
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SA Labor
2 years
#BREAKING : The Malinauskas Labor Government’s COVID legislation has now passed both Houses of Parliament. This is a significant step towards a return to life as normal here in South Australia.
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SA Labor
3 years
Labor is out in full force today supporting @CressidaOHanlon in her contest for Steven Marshall’s seat of Dunstan. Go Cressida!!
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SA Labor
3 years
Once again @marshall_steven praises the Morrison Government for the vaccine rollout. "They've done some excellent work" If Morrison and Co are doing such great work why is Australia ranked dead-last amongst OECD nations?
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SA Labor
6 years
Congratulations Leon Bignell!
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SA Labor
2 years
Yes it is!
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SA Labor
7 years
South Australia is making global headlines today. We are leading the world in renewable energy.
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SA Labor
3 years
If Steven Wade can’t answer basic questions because he is not “a clinician” how about having the Chief Public Health Officer attend the press conference.
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SA Labor
2 years
This is what you call a team. Only Labor has a plan for the future. And this is the team that’ll get it done!
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SA Labor
3 years
BREAKING NEWS: Speaker Dan Cregan will visit the Governor at 9:45am advising her that #saparli voted no confidence in the Deputy Premier and Attorney-General for deliberately and intentionally misleading the House of Assembly and breaching the Ministerial Code of Conduct.
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SA Labor
7 years
South Australia’s unemployment rate has fallen from 7.3% to 5.8% since May. There’s more to do, but this is very promising news. This improvement has come despite attempts by the Liberal Party and the big banks to talk down South Australia.
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SA Labor
7 years
That feeling when you’re called out for a broken promise. Before the election, Nick Xenophon pledged he would “fully fund Gonski”. After the election, he worked with Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberals to cut $210m from SA schools.
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SA Labor
7 years
The choice is clear. Labor = publicly-owned power plant Liberal = privatisation Labor = renewables Liberal = coal Labor = self-sufficiency Liberal = relying on eastern states #saparli
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