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Snelling odds-on to replace Premier Mike Rann

18 Jan 05:40am

Filed under: Jack Snelling, John Rau, Kevin Foley, Mike Rann, South Australia, State Politics

Within weeks, South Australians will have a clear idea of who will replace Premier Mike Rann before the 2014 state election.

Treasurer and deputy Premier Kevin Foley is set to step down. Pic: Calum Robertson

It’s a race between Employment Minister Jack Snelling and Attorney-General John Rau - both ministerial cleanskins with with less than a year’s experience in the ministry.

Both men are jostling to take over the role of Deputy Premier which the incumbent Kevin Foley is set to step down from when he returns in three weeks from a defence industry trip to the US.

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anti mike rann says:

12:31pm | 04/08/11

what a joke why put snelling in he couldnt get speed bumps on are road due to dangerous driving and bassically parmed it off to nothing Read more »
GManderson says:

08:43am | 19/01/11

Ah yes. 60s SA. Halcyon days, eh Smissen. Let’s see if we can just fine tune your wonky old memory a bit. bzzt skweek xxt sst zzzt ah hah, got it on the old rotary tuner! Back to 60’s SA then. The 60s. When archaic pub laws saw the disgusting… Read more »

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