The South Australian Political Landscape

[Gozu]

Liberals candidate for Ramsay Anthony Antoniadis' political career over:

http://www.news.com.au/national/south-a ... 6834090450

I suspect a steep downturn in business for Parabanks newsagency!

"Premier Jay Weatherill said it “beggars belief” that Mr Marshall had not disendorsed Mr Antoniadis."


Weatherill knows full well the likelihood of the Libs chances in Ramsay with or without this bloke and that there's no way Marshall is going to amputate this close to the poll. Marshall will just do what's best for his party and put a few bandages on the situation in the interim.

But, yeah, I doubt Antionadis will be around for long thereafter. In Ramsay anyway.

Political parties tend to stick the 'less talented' (i.e. no-hopers) in safe seats of the other side not expecting them to be any chance of getting up. As it would've always been very unlikely for them to take Ramsay no matter who they put up anyway Marshall should've disendorsed this idiot already especially given he has a long history of paying out his customers who also live in the seat he's standing for.

[Jimmy_041]

and most of the really bad comments on the link weren't from him anyway

[Jimmy_041]

I was waiting for this to come out:
http://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/premier-jay-weatherill-and-opposition-leader-steven-marshall-trade-accusations-over-election-fundraisers-with-developers/story-fnii5yv4-1226836033263

I was once offered a seat at a dinner when Rann and Foley were in power. The invite specifically said that you were having an intimate dinner with the Premier and Treasurer of SA - talk about slutting the positions.

Here are some of the events you could pay to rub shoulders with the Premier and Cabinet
http://sapb.com.au/events
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/south-australian-premier-jay-weatherill-takes-fun-out-of-fundraising/story-e6frgczx-1226754533588#

Whatever happened to the ban?
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/laws-to-stop-political-fundraisers/story-e6frea83-1226429931434

[dedja]

Both sides Jimmy, both sides.

The SA State Liberal leader's (at the time) response to proposed legislation to ban the practice ...

The Liberal Party has its own fundraising arm, Future SA, chaired by ex-foreign minister Alexander Downer.

Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond indicated she was unlikely to support the reform proposal.

"It is also academic to talk about controls over political fundraising on any kind of level playing field while trade unions have the freedom to promote any Labor Party cause they choose," she said.

[Jimmy_041]

Correct mate, but only one side called foul.
One very basic rule of life: people in glass houses......
Hickinbotham is a very active member of the Liberal Party and does fundraisers. He has done it before Roseworthy and will do it for years afterwards.
Labor have exactly the same fundraising machine.
I have been to both and they are exactly the same.
If you are going to stop him, how about stopping the donations by unions to the ALP for political influence.
That is far more insidious.
Either ban both, or STFU which Weatherill couldn't do.

[dedja]

Yep, fair point ...

Jay is obviously clutching at straws.

[Gozu]

A South Australian Liberal candidate who suggested his would-be constituents were smelly and work-shy has issued a formal apology.

Anthony Antoniadis, the candidate for the Adelaide seat of Ramsay in the upcoming state election, made the derogatory comments in a series of Facebook posts, the Adelaide Advertiser reports.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/201 ... -residents

[GWW]

He'd only be sorry he got caught out.

[mighty_tiger_79]

I wonder if the newsagency will lose some customers

but he was probably reading straight out of the Tony Abbott handbook!! lol

[dedja]

The Libs should be thumped in that seat, especially when Marshall adds fuel to the fire by saying the Libs can't win the seat so it doesn't matter who their candidate is, is that not almost more disrespectful than the Facebook comments themselves?

... but Labor will be thumped everywhere else so Lib HQ doesn't give a rats.

[Magpiespower]

I wonder if the newsagency will lose some customers

It's the only newsagency left in Salisbury now.

Funny enough, Keno seems to bring in most of the customers.

Mr. Antoniadas has been MIA all week.

Except for the handful of posters in John St.

I'm sure it's only a coincidence...

[Psyber]

Meanwhile, up here in the seat of Heysen, I have had no literature come to my letter box or my PO Box from any party at all - just posters on the roadsides.

I guess everyone is assuming Isobel Redmond will retain the seat, just as no one expects Mt Antionadis to win up north.
I've seen and spoken to Isobel around the locality, and so she is still showing the flag, and not making that assumption.

I have had an email from Mark Parnell asking for my vote in the upper house - I'm on his list after emailing him about a couple of issues last year.

[Psyber]

I don't know if this is absolutely correct as I don't have any way to verify it from an original source, but it is a worry:
http://www.stevenmarshall.com.au/Latest ... e-bag.aspx

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 surplus and we’ve got a strategy to -”

Presenter: “But that’s not happening, is it. The -”

Gago: “We do, we have a budget that is on track to be back in surplus in 18/19.”

Premier and Treasurer Weatherill has previously claimed the budget will be back in surplus by 2015/16.v

[dedja]

Are we allowing Election Ad posts now?

[Gozu]

2 weeks out latest Newspoll 54-46 to the Libs:

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/ ... stralia-2/

I suspected Paul Caica in Colton might've been in trouble when in Week 1 of the campaign the Libs were promising x amount of money to the local surf lifesaving club and then in Week 2 Labor announced they too were going to throw money at them

[Jimmy_041]

I don't know if this is absolutely correct as I don't have any way to verify it from an original source, but it is a worry:
http://www.stevenmarshall.com.au/Latest ... e-bag.aspx

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 surplus and we’ve got a strategy to -”

Presenter: “But that’s not happening, is it. The -”

Gago: “We do, we have a budget that is on track to be back in surplus in 18/19.”

Premier and Treasurer Weatherill has previously claimed the budget will be back in surplus by 2015/16.v

Not even I would bite on that one. Gago is proof that the Labor faction system of awarding ministries really does give us the worst of their people.

“Two weeks ago, faced with yet another bungle of her own making, she shrugged and said that everybody had told her Tourism would be ‘a fun’ portfolio.

[cracka]

Meanwhile, up here in the seat of Heysen, I have had no literature come to my letter box or my PO Box from any party at all - just posters on the roadsides.

I guess everyone is assuming Isobel Redmond will retain the seat, just as no one expects Mt Antionadis to win up north.
I've seen and spoken to Isobel around the locality, and so she is still showing the flag, and not making that assumption.

I have had an email from Mark Parnell asking for my vote in the upper house - I'm on his list after emailing him about a couple of issues last year.

That's the only thing I don't like about living in the hills. Its such a safe Liberal seat for both State & Federal politics that my vote wont make a difference. Luckily there is always Xenophon or people he has endorsed in the senate to vote for.

[dedja]

no better in Poodle territory I can tell you ...

[Gozu]

Luckily there is always Xenophon or people he has endorsed in the senate to vote for.

Ann Bressington?

[dedja]

thank faark she's goneski ... what a looney