After seven cases of Labor division in seven days, Premier Weatherill has acknowledged that division and disunity is a distraction and damaging to the Labor brand. Mr Weatherill’s comments come in the wake of Ms Gillard calling on a leadership spill to address damaging infighting and division within federal Labor. Mr Weatherill today told journalists:…
Premier Weatherill’s Labor Government continues to spill into the public arena, as a series of embarrassing leaks continue to destabilise Mr Weatherill’s leadership. In just the past week alone: • A calculated, vindictive Cabinet leak of a $7 million “wellbeing initiative” sought to undermine the authority of Premier Weatherill • Legislative Council President John Gazzola…
Labor divisions continue – another Weatherill Govt leak Internal division within Premier Weatherill’s Labor Government continues to spill into the public arena, as a series of embarrassing leaks destabilise Mr Weatherill’s leadership. A document marked ‘Cabinet in Confidence’, and prepared under the Premier’s name, has been deliberately leaked to further damage Mr Weatherill’s leadership. The…
Decisions about the future location of the University of Adelaide Medical School have reached a critical stage, Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas said today. “University representatives have advised me critical location and funding decisions will have to be made no later than August this year if it is to be completed in time for opening…
Shadow Minister for Health Rob Lucas says Minister Snelling needs to indicate whether he has kept his promise and stopped the consortium building the NRAH from spending any further money on public art. On 27 January, Minister Snelling promised to slash the $2 public art programme at the NRAH to free up money for other…
The preliminary estimate of the cost for demolishing and cleaning up the existing Royal Adelaide Hospital site is about $200 million, according to leaked information from within SA Health. Shadow Minister for Health Rob Lucas said the information the State Liberals received indicated significant amounts of asbestos had been identified within the old buildings on…
Shadow Minister for Health Rob Lucas said today the AMA had advised the Government the new RAH will not be big enough and that parts of the existing RAH will need to be kept open until the new RAH can be extended. This advice is a stunning embarrassment for the Government because it has always…
There is no doubt that if you are a ‘Labor mate’ or a part of the broader ‘Labor family’ such as a union boss then your chances of being appointed are significantly increased. Clearly union bosses such as Peter Malinauskas,Janet Giles and Wayne Hanson have all been favoured by the Labor Government with lucrative appointments…
The Weatherill Government’s wrongful suspension and dismissal of former Director of the Cardiac and Thoracic Surgical Unit of Flinders Medical Centre, Professor John Knight, will cost taxpayers more than $6 million. The Supreme Court was told this morning the Weatherill Government had agreed to pay Professor Knight $4.34 million to settle a legal claim he…
Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas today condemned Minister Snelling and former Minister John Hill for refusing to apologise to Professor John Knight in Parliament this afternoon. “It is a disgrace that neither man had the courage to stand up in Parliament and admit the mistakes made by the Labor Government, and apologise to Professor Knight,”…