Jay Weatherill
I am not sure who the South Australian Police Commissioner is. Is it still Mal Hyde? Or did we get a new one? You wouldn’t know. Whoever he is, he is, as they say, a quiet man who keeps to himself.
In fairness, it’s not as if the South Australian Police Service has been doing nothing. Earlier this year, via its Twitter site, SAPOL courageously announced that it was launching an all-out blitz on one of the gravest threats to civil society - jaywalking. In a joint venture with Channel Nine, cameras were mounted at some of Adelaide’s most lethal intersections, places such as Beehive Corner which are a magnet for these dangerous criminals, with the offenders being nabbed and shamed as they went about their despicable enterprise.
We can all sleep safer as a result.
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South Australia has not so much two premiers now but none.
The outgoing Mike Rann has played his assassins off a break revealing them to be weak, disorganised, and without the class necessary to lead.
Worse, the sheer hollowness of the personnel change at the top has been exposed for what it is - merely a marketing ploy to repackage a tired government. Nothing in the way of substantial vision or a different approach has been put forward.
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Rick says:
What a load of crap, when the Michelle what’s her name “scandal” didn’t put Mike out on the street the lack of a credible opposition couldn’t get the loser liberals accross the line either. Thanks Mike for all the hard work, exellent work well done. Read more »
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James in Footscray says:
That headline - excellent work, well done. Read more »
The cocked-up coup to oust SA Premier Mike Rann (read all about it here) has left a stain on the Labor Party carpet, and the various men responsible are either staring at it in disbelief or pretending it doesn’t exist.
The Premier himself has flown to India, and seems quite happy to let it fester.
A clean kill is the Holy Grail, the perpetual motion machine, the leprechaun’s gold for Labor party operatives. You would think the Gillard/Rudd experience would highlight just how difficult that is, but the factional warlords were optimistic enough to give it another go with Mr Rann.
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Andrea says:
Sabbra Cadabra @ 95Given the numbers of gay folks aunord, it might be just as pragmatic to allow gay marriage.Even though it has a joke name, it can be argued that the Australian Sex Party did very well in the last election. It got far more votes than the run-of-the-mill… Read more »
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gra gra says:
Bill is carried away with leadership ballots being a Labor Party only zone. How many leaders, (? ), have the Libs had since Howard was unceremoniously dumped by all and sundry? Or weren’t those leaders “knifed”? Were they just “strategically replaced”? Did Abbott “knife” Turnbull, or was the one-only majority… Read more »
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