Media Releases
Volunteer’s car towed as access to Women’s and Children’s Hospital impacted by road closures and restrictions
A Women’s and Children’s Hospital volunteer had her car towed and faces a massive fine after shock road closures and restrictions were introduced today. The woman’s car was towed from MacKinnon Parade which has been turned into a no standing zone. Healthcare workers raised concerns with the Opposition about poor access to the WCH.
CFMEU honours John Setka’s personalised tram in bizarre wrestling video
The CFMEU has lapped up Peter Malinauskas’ warm welcome to South Australia by chanting and bizarrely wrestling in front of a publicly-owned tram emblazed with union propaganda that Labor has admitted is in breach of government rules.
North-South nightmare lingers as Labor refuses to pay out millions
A former business owner who sheltered domestic violence victims and the homeless – but lost his property seven weeks ago after it was acquired for the North-South Corridor – is now himself struggling to make ends meet.
Assurances needed SA won’t be left to foot $5.5 billion
Serious questions still surround the future of train operator Keolis Downer – and hundreds of South Australians jobs – as the Malinauskas Labor Government struggles to deliver one of its flagship election promises.
Labor kneecaps Auditor General with “unprecedented” funding cut
The Auditor-General has revealed his shock over an “unprecedented” funding cut to his department – Peter Malinauskas’ decision to do so the first of its kind in state history – that “undermines the Auditor-General’s independence” in another Labor hit on transparency.
Auditor-General Andrew Richardson described the surprise $1.492 million budget cut as “the first I am aware of ever being imposed”.
Malinauskas Government shuts down Auditor General request over targeted grant payments
The Malinauskas Labor Government has refused the Auditor General access to crucial documents to justify $133 million of grant payments – promised to key seats before the March election – which were not “conducted within the public sector framework and processes”.
The damning conclusion was outlined in the latest Auditor-General’s Report.
A billion dollars off the books as North-South Corridor future looks uncertain
Crucial federal funding worth $1 billion for the delay-plagued North-South Corridor has been pushed beyond the forward estimates, a Senate Estimates Hearing has been told.
The revelation came to light on Friday when an Infrastructure and Transport Department official told a Senate Committee “we’ve moved a little over a billion dollars, about 1.1 billion, out of the forward estimates for that project”.
Belair bike riders abandoned with another broken Labor promise
Labor’s hit the brakes on a pre-election promise to add an extra carriage on weekend Belair line train services to accommodate mountain bike riders travelling to the popular Mitcham Trail Network – in another blow to the increasingly popular recreation group.
Council must stop horsing around in manure footpath furore
The Opposition is calling on Mayoral candidates standing for election in the City of Marion to commit to overturning a decision to ban free footpath manure supplied by stables in the Morphettville Racecourse area.
Major disaster at Majors Road angers local community
The Opposition is calling on the Malinauskas Labor Government to release modelling which justifies a $120 million project to install Southern Expressway on/off ramps at Majors Road with a leaked feasibility study from 2020 showing the project “could not be justified”.