How did it come to this? Labor easily wins South Australian election, but upper house could be a poor result. The grey area represents the duration of Playmander electoral malapportionment, beginning in 1936, in effect until the 1970 election. During the 1980s and 90s South Australia suffered greater than average reductions in the level of economic activity, and a growing nervousness affected the business climate of the state. $200 million jobs & economic growth fund for new initiatives over the next 4 years. If Labor or ex-Labor independent Francis Bedford wins Newland, and Labor wins the ultra-marginal Liberal-held seats of Adelaide, King and Elder, they will be able to form majority government. He said it had been an honour and privilege to serve as premier. The Labor Party was elected into government under leader Peter Malinauskas. But will it be safer for women? Labor and the unions stifled and shut down all resistance by workers to such job cuts and closures. Narungga MP Fraser Ellis found the heat of ICAC investigations of alleged electoral allowance fraud was not popular with the premier, while Kavel MP Dan Cregan was frustrated with Marshalls lack of interest in his electorates needs. Labor, backed by the trade unions, largely won by default. You used the word mongrel Steven Marshall does not have that nasty streak. Phone: 8418 6700 Email: info@sa.alp.org.au Since the position's formal introduction in 1968, seven parliamentary Labor deputy leaders have served as Deputy Premier of South Australia: Des Corcoran (1968 and 19701979), Hugh Hudson (1979), Jack Wright (19821985), Don Hopgood (19851992), Frank Blevins (19921993), Kevin Foley (20022011), John Rau (201118) and Susan Close (2022 Present). This section contains biographical and parliamentary career information for all Members of the South Australian Parliament. The publics fears are real. The Labor Party regained office in South Australia in Saturdays state election by cynically profiting from the public concern and hostility produced by the disastrous and deadly live with the virus offensive. Their collective influence was most evident in the lively public debates about the role of state support for education. Yet, whats clear is voters are comfortable with ambitious spending policy agendas and new forms of stimulus. In late 2020 and early 2021, Labor retained office in Queensland and Western Australia, with the Liberals reduced to a rump in the latter state after backing Morrisons demands for a lifting of travel restrictions. He is a very right-wing former state secretary of the shop assistants union, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, which has a long record of enforcing cheap labour, especially for young casual workers, in partnership with the retail giants. Nevertheless, during the 1850s there was a renewal of the original zeal. 6 mental health beds at Mount Gambier Hospital, 212 extra nurses to service the 300 extra-beds commitment by SA Labor. Flinders University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Prior to the 2018 election, a Labor MP became an independent, reducing them back to a minority 23 seats. $182 million to establish 98 more mental health beds over the next four years. In his victory speech on Saturday night, Malinauskas said not a word about the COVID pandemic. The Labor MP Tom Koutsantonis said there had been dramatic swing towards Labor and criticised the Liberal campaign for failing to address the priority of health. Should voters be worried? Labor holds 19 seats in the 47 seat House of Assembly while the Liberal party holds 22. CLP = Country Liberal Party (NT) What are the major parties promising in the lead-up to SA's state election? Scott Morrison is a tough operator. Robert Richards was Premier in 1933 while leading the rebel Parliamentary Labor Party of MPs who had been expelled in the 1931 Labor split; he would later be readmitted and lead the party in opposition. The 2018 South Australian state election to elect members to the 54th Parliament of South Australia was held on 17 March 2018. Brocks former seat of Frome is likely to return to the Liberal camp. But about an hour and half after polls had closed, the results indicated a brutal loss for Steven Marshalls one-term Liberal government. As South Australians head to the polls, Labor is favourite but there are many unknowns. NP = National Party / The Nationals There are many unknown elements in this years SA election. The ABC election analyst Antony Green said there was no doubt that Labor would form government with swings towards Labor across the state. Housing policies favour the rich and leave first home buyers high and dry. By contrast, Labors vote fell by 1.0 percent in Playford, a working-class electorate in the outer northern suburbs. In 2018, a resurgent SA Best, led by Xenophon, had secured strong support in key seats, with 15-20% of the vote in many marginals. A year ago, the states growth rate outstripped the nations, a rarity for SA. The Ambulance Employees Association SA channelled the anger of paramedics behind this campaign. "Naturally, people of South Australia and Labor are right to feel satisfied tonight. Counting of pre-poll and postal votes which represent more than a quarter of all votes lodged in the state election did not start until 9 am on the 21stof March. The resulting expansion of the urban and industrial population effectively undermined the electoral foundations of the Liberal Party itself. To form a majority government, Labor requires a net gain of four seats, assuming it wins Florey. 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This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. A United Trades and Labor Council meeting with the purpose of creating an elections committee was convened on 12 December 1890, and held on 7 January 1891. In response, the premier quipped: Right, thats it, no more carbs. Such are the lofty heights, at times, of this elections campaign conversation. This was the first time an incumbent government had been ejected in an election since the pandemic. 'Please confirm what Muslim refers to': Why Ali's birthday payment for his nephew was flagged by his bank, These engineers break their silenceafterdecade of criticism overBrisbane2011 flood handling, Kade was a fit 31-year-old when he died from a heart attack, Sherpa are world famous for their work, which is synonymous with their name. Mr Malinauskas spoke about the state's pandemic recovery, highlighting investment in education, training and skills, clean energy, and health. The number of people in hospital was 147, against 98 on March 12. When Labor was last in office, from 2002 to 2018, it slashed health spending, presided over rising levels of ambulance ramping (waiting in queues outside over-stretched public hospitals) and shut down hospitals, including the Adelaide General Repatriation Hospital. At the time of publication, Labor has secured 25 seats and is predicted by the ABCs election analyst Antony Green to have won as many as 28 seats. Acquitted of an assault charge arising from a party, former Liberal Sam Duluk is running against his former party in the seat of Waite. 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That included the 2017 closure of the last remaining auto assembly factory, the Elizabeth GM Holden plant, which had employed 4,500 workers in 2003. During 2013 it became the longest-serving state Labor government in South Australian history, and in addition went on to win a fourth four-year term at the 2014 election. In 2004 Labor, under Mike Rann, issued a strategic plan focusing on economic development and improvements in health and education over the coming decade. To ensure the continuation of a sustainable forestry industry: For more information, please contact your Hawker Britton Consultant Simon Banks on +61 419 648 587 or Stephen Halliday on +61 418 808 799. Select your search parameters, then click Search to view details of past and present members.. The key target marginal seats, including the ultra-marginal Newland, King and Elder, and Adelaide itself, all fell quickly to Labor. $900,000 to help three pharmacies across Adelaide to open their doors overnight, with funding going towards logistical arrangements and security for the pharmacies, $150,000 to develop a trial of how community pharmacies can help improve patient access to testing and antiviral treatments for respiratory illnesses, $250,000 expand the availability of palliative care medications in pharmacies, In addition to the 20 community drug and alcohol rehabilitation beds accounted for under the 300 extra beds policy, to combat, $4.6 million to fit-out and operate 2 dedicated drug and alcohol detox beds in the Mount Gambier Hospital, $1 million over four years for Family Drug Support, $107.8 million for 350 additional paramedics and ambulance officers, $120 million to build a new Emergency Operations Center, $9 million purchase 36 new ambulance vehicles, $18.4 million to establish four new ambulance stations, $7 million to expand and upgrade 10 existing ambulance stations, $125 million for three key projects on the, Establish an Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Return of Public Transport Services to, $5.25 million to ensure public transport is completely free for senior citizens, $11.97 over four years to re-introduce the. Here's a look at what the Liberals and Labor have committed to so far. On the current figures, Labor could win up to 28 seats and the Liberals 14, with five independents. Under Dunstan there had been a rush of adventurous legislation easing censorship and restrictions on liquor, gambling, and shopping hours; extending the vote to 18-year-olds; permitting beach nudity; and reforming the law relating to adult homosexuality. If that happens, the Liberals are one short of a majority. So we come to the intrigue of how the independents may act, and here we look to the two most likely to betray their Liberal Party roots. 20 March 2022. The Labor Party regained office in South Australia in Saturday's state election by cynically profiting from the public concern and hostility produced by . Haydon Manning does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Only indirectly. It was able to capitalise on the collapse of support for the Liberals once the pandemic spiralled to unprecedented heights. $350,000 over four years in mental health training for pharmacists, allowing them to identify and respond to the early warning signs of mental ill-health. He said the Liberals "may be our adversary, but they are not our enemies". The decisive intervention of the British government into colonial affairs during the financial crisis of 184142 curbed the experimental pretensions of the colonists and checked their progress toward self-government. NAT = Nationalist An additional $30 million in operating costs for the colleges across three years. The Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), commonly known as South Australian Labor, is the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, originally formed in 1891 as the United Labor Party of South Australia. The 2023 New South Wales state election will be held on 25 March 2023 to elect the 58th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council.The election will be conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC).. The Australian Labor Party has a long and proud history of fighting for and delivering on these goals. In 1851 partial self-government was introduced, and the Legislative Council was reformed to include two-thirds elected membership, based on a property franchise. 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Labor has run its campaign on the issue of health and ambulance ramping, while the Liberal party has been campaigning on the economy and the risk a change of government would pose as the state emerges from the Covid pandemic. Labor recently promised to build a new hospital in his electorate, something the Liberals have not yet matched. Thus, South Australia had established a relatively advanced democratic bicameral government, and its first election on this basis was held in 1857, when the European population was roughly 110,000. Liberal governments outspend Labor on COVID-19 stimulus The reality is that under Liberal and Labor governments the national curriculum is "a lot worse," according to ACU Senior Research Fellow Dr Kevin Donnelly . The funding to . The rise of Labor saw non-Labor politics start to merge into various party incarnations. But neither party would feel confident that majority government is likely. "I affirm to each and every one of you here and the people across our state that I very much look forward for the first time in the history of our federation, having an initiatedAboriginal man [Kyam Maher] leading our state's Aboriginal affairs movement, but also actively delivering on a state based voice, treaty and truth for the Aboriginal people of our state," he said. $1 million in funding to establish two domestic violence prevention and recovery hubs. Please note that the search defaults to current members. The working class must have a political voice, which the Australian ruling class is seeking to stifle with this legislation. The Marshall minority government was propped up by a number of those independents, including former Liberal and current Speaker of the House Dan Cregan in the seat of Kavel. Labor lost the 2018 election after 16 years in power. It didnt help that Marshall couldnt deliver on some of these pledges. Labor has swept into power in South Australia after just one term in the political wilderness in an emphatic result that has seen the Marshall . By the end of Saturday evening, the extent of the loss was clear: Labor had already secured enough support to win 25 seats, with 24 needed to form a majority government. Theres clearly some take-home lessons for us going into the election in the next couple of months, but Steven Marshall is a really nice guy and maybe its a case of nice guys dont win tonight, she told Sky News. Some historians say that South Australia had lost its experimental and intellectual zest and that it was not recovered until the last part of the 20th century. Making the additional allowance which teachers receive for working in the country permanent instead of temporary. Infrastructure Road to a horizon graphic. The fraying of the Liberals, and the inability of Marshall to keep factional balances and in-fighting in check, reflects a more general national trend for independents to challenge in non-Labor seats. Having been ascendant for nearly two decades under Dunstan and Bannon, the Labor Partys popularity declined abruptly in the early 1990s in tandem with the collapse of the State Bank, which had accrued a significant debt as a result of ambitious lending strategies. However, the swing to Labor was enough this time to see them take Davenport, and potentially Gibson, which had previously been held by Liberals by relatively strong margins. Peter Malinauskas will become South Australia's 47th premier after leading Labor to a historic victory. However, indirectly, the failure of the Marshall government is really a story about the fragmentation of the right in Australian politics. In the 1993 election the party experienced its heaviest defeat in 60 years. Rann served as premier until 2011, when Jay Weatherill took over as party leader and premier. According to media polls, which proved roughly accurate on election day, the Liberal primary vote plummeted straight after the reopening of the states borders on November 23. Pressure for greater autonomy mounted, and in 1856 South Australia instituted some of the most advanced arrangements in the empire. However, it seems many voters may be unforgiving, given Marshall rejected the states chief medical officers recommendation to close borders again once the outbreak in December looked to be unmanageable. Marshall said he had called Malinauskas to concede and to congratulate him on becoming the 47th premier of the state. LNP = Liberal National Party (QLD) "Let them say, that we took this opportunity to invest in education, training and skills so that every young person could fulfil their potential. Malinauskas orchestrated a profile coup by making his body the talking point. Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. Labor played on peoples fear of waiting too long for an ambulance, promising to spend $1.15 billion over four years on 350 extra ambulance officers and paramedics, 300 nurses and 100 doctors. Adjunct Associate Professor, Politics, Policy and Global Affairs, Flinders University. Labor gained an overall swing of 7.7 percentage points from its near-record low vote at the last state election in 2018, taking its primary vote to around 40 percent. The general theme focused on a strong economy, but it lacked any memorable pledges on economic and fiscal policy. Labor took government with the support of eight dissident liberals in 1905 when Labor won the most seats for the first time. $1 million funding increase to the RSPCA over four years to enforce animal welfare laws. Settlement patterns and demographic trends, Colonial development in the mid-19th century. COVID's still a big deal South Australians might be going to the polls, but plenty won't be going anywhere. With a total land area of 984,321 square kilometres (380,048 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. The state economy was in the doldrums throughout the 1990s, with higher unemployment and lower economic growth than the national average. Department for Environment and Water. Malinauskas is a typical product of the Labor-union apparatus. Here's a look at whatthe Liberals andLabor have committed to so far. Join the SEP campaign against anti-democratic electoral laws! Three weeks out from the election, The Australian offers a Newspoll result from South Australia with a striking headline figure of 53-47 to Labor on two-party preferred, amounting to a 4.9% swing to Labor compared with the 2018 result. The people of SA have spoken, they have elected a new government, Marshall said on Saturday to supporters at the Robin Hood hotel. The Liberals fell by 3.4 points to under 35 percent. $2 million to appoint an eminent jurist to be the Commissioner for the River Murray in SA. In the first week of January, ambulances arrived within the required response time for life-threatening cases in just 33 percent of cases. Over the past 50 years, SA Labor has governed about 70% of the time. CP = Country Party Since these ore bodies contained rich uranium reserves, the mining policy of the government became a matter of great political controversy, especially in the Australian Labor Party. However, during 2021, three Liberals found themselves on the crossbench, either through choice or expulsion. In the last years of Dunstans tenure and during the administration of his successor, John Bannon, industrialization seemed to falter as tariff protection became less comprehensive. She also compared Marshall to prime minister Scott Morrison, saying the SA premier was a nice guy. The premier is appointed by the governor of South Australia, and by modern convention holds office by virtue of his or her ability to command the support of a majority of members of the lower house of Parliament, the House of Assembly. With these factors in mind, more evidence leans to a Labor win. Australian governments ending all close contact rules as COVID infections increase, Union trying to cancel South Australian teachers strike against dangerous school reopening, South Australian hospitals in crisis but health union takes no action. The issue of hospital ramping has bedevilled South Australia for a long time, and it was an ongoing pressure point for the Liberals. As a result of the return to face-to-face classes, more than 330 teachers are in quarantine as COVID-19 patients or close contacts. The Greens also benefitted from that demise, gaining 3 percent to nearly 10 percent of the vote. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The absence of a strong Nationals presence in the state arguably throws out of balance the ideological differences within the Liberal party. Mike Head @MikeHeadWSWS. "Let them say that we took this opportunity to deliver an economy that left no-one behind. Baning mobile phones across all year levels, $1 million over four years to publicise government procurement opportunities three months in advance to enable local business to prepare for tender opportunities, $6.2 million to re-establish Brand SA to raise the profile of South Australian Businesses, $37.7 million to double the Cost of Living Concession, $425 million increase in government spending going towards SA business away from interstate/ overseas suppliers, $900,000 over four years to ensure the Auditor-General audits Government agency spending on procurement, $900,000 to assist local businesses to become tender ready, $15 million over ten years for a new Centre for Excellence to create a long-term Forestry Research and Development capability.

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