The South Australian Political Landscape

[mighty_tiger_79]

local politics is really a disgrace

both sides are just as bad as each other

but what Labor have done with Habib, is make sure she gets elected

[am Bays]

Has Sibbons in Michell got the old, "Pull out digger the dogs are p!ssing on your swag" from his ALP mates at headquarters?

just ahven't seen him around the alst two weeks comaperd to Corey. No leaflets for about a week in the mailbox, compared to three from the Libs. No ALP add in the local messenger (guardian) this week.

Have the ALP given up on Mitchell to sandbag other seats?

[mighty_tiger_79]

dont they need to sandbag the whole state?

[Jimmy_041]

Labor are doing very well in this development game.
Probably because they have so many experienced people handling it.
Lawyers, shoppy unionists..........

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/million-sa-supreme-court-lawsuit-blames-labor-stalwart-pat-conlon-for-delays-in-state-aquatic-centre-at-marion/story-fni6uo1m-1226853730681

In October last year, the 2012-13 Auditor General’s Report criticised the “high-risk” centre, saying it went through significant and fundamental change, while documents lacked key details.

[dedja]

MHS doing his best to faark things up at the last minute ... relevance deprivation syndrome?

[Jimmy_041]

He cant help himself
His family must be thanking their lucky stars he never actually had to fight anyone
He couldn't spot an ambush in the Sahara Desert

[bennymacca]

MHS doing his best to faark things up at the last minute ... relevance deprivation syndrome?

link or explain?

[bennymacca]

seems downright petty and just politicking, but cant really expect anything less than that from our mate tony.

http://www.news.com.au/national/south-a ... 6853919795

[am Bays]

Has Sibbons in Michell got the old, "Pull out digger the dogs are p!ssing on your swag" from his ALP mates at headquarters?

just ahven't seen him around the alst two weeks comaperd to Corey. No leaflets for about a week in the mailbox, compared to three from the Libs. No ALP add in the local messenger (guardian) this week.

Have the ALP given up on Mitchell to sandbag other seats?

Well based on the Galaxy poll on the 'Tiser site, maybe they shouldn't give up hope in Mitchell. Allegedly a 51-49 lead to the ALP

[dedja]

MHS doing his best to faark things up at the last minute ... relevance deprivation syndrome?

link or explain?

Yep, he's announced a grand scheme for the riverbank precinct which is not Liberal Party policy 2 days out from an election that the Libs surely can't lose. It won't change the result but he obviously doesn't know how to stick to a script, regardless of the merits or otherwise for his proposal.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/sout ... 6853018909

A LUXURY hotel and gallery or a new entertainment centre would be built over the West End rail lines under a grand Riverbank vision from Opposition frontbencher Martin Hamilton-Smith.

The Shadow Minister for Economic Development said the potential of the Riverbank precinct would never be realised until the barrier of the train tracks was overcome.

He said the State Government could gift the airspace above the tracks to developers for a range of projects within a park setting such as a 6-star hotel connected to an Aboriginal gallery drawing on the Art Gallery of SA's collection.

"I would favour an Aboriginal theme because in a way Adelaide is the gateway to the outback," Mr Hamilton-Smith said.

"It would sit perfectly with the Convention Centre on the one side and the (new Royal Adelaide) Hospital on the other.

"You would have a stunning view of the river and the oval."

Speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia state election forum at Adelaide Town Hall, Mr Hamilton-Smith said another long-term option was to save the space over the tracks directly west of the Morphett St to bring the Entertainment Centre into the city.

"If you could connect that part of the river to the city you could open up all sorts of possibilities. At the moment it's all cut off."

The vision is similar to Adelaide City Council's push to have the space over the rail lines turned into a new city park around biomedical precinct buildings, rather then squeezing buildings between North Tce and the tracks.

Mr Hamilton-Smith, who also favours building a second weir near Thebarton to extend the Torrens Lake, stressed his ideas were not Liberal Party policy and would need to be subject to "a thorough business case", but he would raise them if the Liberals won government.

He said the rest of the parklands should be off limits for development but they had the potential to be better used and rival New York's Central Park as a manicured green belt.

"We need to get more water into the parklands, more greenery into the parklands. It needs to be greener and much better planned," he said.

However, the Liberals have failed to allocated any funds for parklands projects while Labor has promised $20 million over four years, and Opposition planning spokeswoman Vickie Chapman has ruled out even small commercial enterprises such as licensed cafes.

Planning Minister John Rau told the CEDA forum the parklands were "an absolute priority" and had to be treated as a bridge connecting the city and suburbs, rather than a "moat" around the CBD.

They should be planned for holistically rather than as "a series of thought bubbles", he said.

Greens leader Mark Parnell said he had no problem with cafes and restaurants on the riverbank but not big hotels.

[Gozu]

Two new electorate-level polls suggest an intriguing election night looms in South Australia on Saturday.


The Advertiser has published two of Galaxy’s electorate-level automated phone polls from samples of about 550, and they have produced the very interesting findings that Labor holds 51-49 leads in its key marginal seats of Mitchell and Newland. The Liberals need six seats to form a majority government, and with respective margins of 2.5% and 2.6%, the seats in question are Labor’s fifth and sixth most marginal. We will evidently have to wait until tomorrow’s hard copy of the paper for full results, but it appears the poll will show that Kris Hanna, a former Labor member for the seat who held it as an independent in 2006 but was defeated by Labor’s Alan Sibbons in 2010, is at the very least competitive.


http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/ ... tchell-sa/

[GWW]

Oh dear - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-14/g ... in/5321360

[Booney]

Oh dear - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-14/g ... in/5321360

That's fantastic!

[Gozu]

The South Australian election is expected to go down to the wire, a swing to the Liberal Party likely to be just enough to end Labor’s majority government.

But with results from the first 1000 voters polled showing a two-party-preferred vote of 53-47 per cent to the Liberals, Labor Premier Jay Weatherill may still have a chance of forming minority government if swings are contained in key marginal seats.

With two thirds of voters polled for an exclusive Newspoll to be published in The Weekend Australian, Labor’s primary vote has fallen from 34 per cent to 33 per cent over the past month while the Liberal Party’s primary vote has dipped slightly from 44 to 42 per cent. The preliminary findings, which have a wider margin of error compared to a full poll, suggest the Liberals will benefit from a swing away from Labor, but a Liberal landslide is looking unlikely.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 854225930#

[bennymacca]

Oh dear - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-14/g ... in/5321360

was just about to post that

[Dogwatcher]

Two 'minor' gaffes in the past two days.

Abbott/Marshall = Tools
Vote for Labor

I don't think it will make much difference to how people will vote but still embarrassing.

[Jimmy_041]

I had lunch with a senior PS today

The $190m in procurement savings................ an unadulterated lie
Treasury have told Labor they are contractually locked into the purchases

You have to seriously wonder how low these people will sink and take us with them

[Gozu]

Things overheard at my local polling booth today:

"Look at this lineup this is f**ked"

"Do ya have to vote mate?", "Yeah or the c**ts will fine me $250 or something"

"Do I have to vote too?", "Nah just tell em you've already voted"

"Who you voting for?", "I just vote Labor every time even though both of them will f**k us over"

[Gozu]

Latest polls:

While Tasmania looks to be a foregone conclusion, we look to have an exciting election night in store tomorrow in South Australia – particularly if the final pre-election Newspoll proves to be on the money, as it usually does.

The Australian
reports the poll has the Liberals leading 52.3-47.7 on two-party preferred, which is most people’s idea of an election-winning lead. However, it represents a swing of only 0.7% swing on the result from 2010, which in uniform would deliver the Liberals only three of the six seats it needs to secure a majority. Troublingly for the Liberals, the poll has them down three points on the primary vote compared with the mid-term Newspoll result, to 41%, with Labor steady on 34% and the Greens up two to 9%. Steven Marshall’s personal ratings have also gone backwards, his approval down three points to 42% and disapproval up six to 35%, which is not what usually happens to opposition leaders enjoying the publicity of an election campaign for the first time. Jay Weatherill has steadied after a solid drop in the previous poll, his approval and disapproval not both on 42%, respectively down one and two points. The good news for the Liberals is that the swing appears to be bigger in Adelaide, which is where the entirety of Labor’s large stock of marginal seats is located. Here the Labor primary vote is down from 43.3% in 2010 to 37%, with the Liberal vote “relatively unchanged” at 38%.

The other good news for the Liberals is that a ReachTEL automated phone poll of 1231 respondents paints a considerably rosier picture for them, crediting them with a decisive lead of 55-45 on two-party preferred. No further figures are available at this stage, at least that I’m aware of.


http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/ ... ian-polls/

[mighty_tiger_79]

anyone getting set for the election night coverage