A Marshall Liberal Government will undertake major reform of country health so more decisions are taken closer to where services are delivered in rural and regional areas. Under the plan, the existing Country Health SA Local Health Network would be broken up into between three and six new networks, with Boards reintroduced to govern each…
A Marshall Liberal Government will take an axe to Labor’s over centralised health bureaucracy and will return decision making to where services are actually delivered. “During the past decade the Labor Government has centralised decision making for the health system in an ever expanding bureaucracy that has limited contact with either patients or the medical…
Federal Labor’s decision to appoint a Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Western Australia is a snub to South Australia. This week, Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten, appointed a Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Western Australia stating: “…this new position that I’ve created will make WA’s voice inside Labor even stronger.” (SMH, 04/03/14) Federal Labor has no position in…
Transport Minister, Tom Koutsantonis, has been caught out lying in a media release distributed last week titled “Liberal leader set to dodge another debate”. The release stated: “Liberal leader Steven Marshall is set to dodge another showdown with Premier Jay Weatherill after agreeing to a $1000 a head fundraiser instead of taking part in a…
Senior Labor Minister Gail Gago has confirmed that Premier Weatherill’s promised return to a budget surplus in 2015/16 is worthless. Minister Gago let slip on 639ABC radio that Labor won’t deliver a surplus until 2018/19 at the earliest: Gago: “This Government has been very open and transparent about having to bring our budget back into…
Newsrooms should beware of a flurry of Labor lies that will flood their inboxes over the remaining 16 days of the State Election campaign. Yesterday, Minister Koutsantonis distributed a media release with the headline “Liberal leader set to dodge another debate” which stated: “Liberal leader Steven Marshall is set to dodge another showdown with Premier…
Another Cabinet document leak designed to undermine embattled Premier Weatherill has questioned the costings for the Weatherill Labor Government’s Drill Core Reference Library. Today Mr Weatherill announced a $32 million minerals core library for the Tonsley site. However, a Cabinet document leaked to the State Liberals questions the costings for this proposal, stating: Just yesterday,…
Another Cabinet document leak designed to undermine embattled Premier Weatherill has questioned the costings for the Weatherill Labor Government’s Drill Core Reference Library. Today Mr Weatherill announced a $32 million minerals core library for the Tonsley site. However, a Cabinet document leaked to the State Liberals questions the costings for this proposal, stating: Just yesterday,…
Premier Weatherill and his Labor Government have been embarrassingly exposed over fundraising hypocrisy. On 29 January this year, Premier Weatherill was the guest speaker at a Labor Party fundraiser hosted by CIC Australia Limited. Two weeks later, the Weatherill Labor Government chose CIC Australia as the preferred developer for the new residential and mixed-use Tonsley…
Today’s release of both Liberal and Labor plans for the Royal Adelaide Hospital site highlights the stark difference in approach between how a Marshall Liberal Government and a Weatherill Labor Government would deal with South Australia’s jobs and budget crisis. “A Marshall Liberal Government will adopt a prudent, financially responsible approach to the RAH site…