South Australia’s ‘effective management’ of the COVID-19 pandemic has enabled South Australians to ‘return to normal life faster than most other states’, helping the state avoid the worst of the recession and prompting a surge in locals flooding back into the labour market, a leading national independent economic report says. The quarterly Deloitte…
DetailsA state-wide survey of SA’s public sector workforce has revealed a strong level of workplace pride, motivation and employee wellbeing – with the majority of the almost 40,000 respondents pleased with the support provided to them during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it shows there is still more work to be done in some…
DetailsPeter Malinauskas has been caught out making inaccurate and misleading statements regarding our state’s health system, with the Electoral Commissioner forcing him to admit his claims were wrong, and to issue a statement correcting the record. In a facebook post late yesterday, Mr Malinauskas referred to the original offending facebook post which referred…
DetailsA cavalcade of prominent South Australian business leaders have endorsed the job creation and economic benefits of the Marshall Liberal Government’s multipurpose Riverbank Arena. At Business SA’s State Budget Luncheon at Adelaide Oval on Friday, Shadow Treasurer Stephen Mullighan re-stated Labor’s opposition to this job-creating, transformational project, only to be followed by a panel…
DetailsA deal approved by former Labor Ministers Stephen Mullighan and Tom Koutsantonis, which promised thousands of jobs at Gillman and more than $70 million in revenue, has been another spectacular failure. Just prior to the last state election, the then Housing and Urban Development Minister Stephen Mullighan – the architect of the deal…
DetailsIn a positive assessment of the SA State Budget 2021-22 and SA’s strong ongoing economic and jobs recovery, ANZ is predicting the state’s economic growth to surge even further beyond the level forecast by the Marshall Liberal Government. In its assessment titled: SA Budget: frontrunner for a return to surplus, ANZ says despite the…
DetailsFollowing the release of the State Budget 2021-22, independent credit ratings agencies have noted the state’s improving economic outlook, record job-creating infrastructure investment and strong financial management. S&P Global said the Budget, handed down by Treasurer Rob Lucas yesterday, shows an ‘improving economic outlook that supports a gradual return to operating surpluses’ and record…
DetailsDelivered on 22 June 2021, on the second reading of the Appropriation Bill 2021, by the Honourable Rob Lucas MLC, Treasurer of South Australia. Mr Speaker, as much as I always enjoy the company of you and your colleagues, I am delighted to note that this will be the last occasion on which I…
DetailsFamily household budgets continue to stretch a whole lot further under the Marshall Liberal Government’s lower-cost policies, with the average* Adelaide household now around $940 a year better off. The huge hip-pocket savings include massive reductions in average household water and sewerage bills (an average $191 a year saving), cheaper ESL bills ($184), cheaper…
DetailsThousands of local jobs will be created over the next four years as the State Budget 2021-22 drives South Australia’s ongoing economic recovery through targeted stimulus, record infrastructure investment, lower costs for businesses and increased industry growth support. An enormous infrastructure pipeline – worth a record $17.9 billion over the next 4 years…
DetailsThe final State Budget of the Marshall Liberal Government’s first term secures South Australia’s strong ongoing economic recovery, with a record $17.9 billion job-creating infrastructure spend over four years and a substantial investment in health to support the State’s continuing management of the pandemic, ease pressure on emergency departments, reduce ramping and improve the lives of all South Australians.…
DetailsA significant pipeline of potential future job-creating infrastructure projects is being supported with a $27 million expansion of the Marshall Liberal Government’s ‘Business Case Fund’ in the upcoming State Budget. The fund, established last year with an initial $10 million investment, provides funding towards the costs of preparing business cases on possible key…
DetailsLabor leader Peter Malinauskas has serious questions to answer about precisely what he knew about complaints made by several staffers, including junior trainees, in the electorate offices of some of his Labor MPs – and what action he’s going to take now the revelations have been made public. Documents released under Freedom of…
DetailsSeveral lifesaving ambulances will be forced off the road and into panel beaters to repair thousands of dollars of significant damage – including dented bonnets – caused by staff climbing on top of the vehicles to deface them as part of union’s ‘chalking’ industrial action. In some cases, long-lasting paint – not chalk…
DetailsIn a huge vote of confidence in the Marshall Government’s strong plan to further improve our health system, Ambulance Employees Association (AEA) members have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Government’s offer to employ an extra 74 full-time equivalent ambos – in a move that ends the long-running stalemate. A vote of union members…
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