Promise broken and scrutiny avoided

  Proposed reforms of the Upper House, announced by the Rann Government today, reveal a broken promise and an intention to avoid scrutiny.   On 24 November 2005 the Premier said in a media release proposing a referendum on the future of the Upper House; it will be up to the people of South Australia and they will have four years to debate the issue and form a view before the 2010 referen... ...Read more

It’s not rocket science, Karlene

  The rest of the world has been drinking clean stormwater for the past 40 years – but that’s apparently not good enough for Karlene Maywald.   The Water Minister claimed on ABC radio today that the “science doesn’t stack up” when it comes to using captured stormwater for drinking.   With about 21 gigalitres of stormwater flowing out to sea so far this month – enough water to supply... ...Read more

Glenside “irreplaceable”

  A former State Director of Mental Health (and Rann Government appointee) has declared the Glenside Mental Health Campus an “irreplaceable asset” that is “far too important to be broken up for the sake of expediency”.   Associate Professor Jonathan Phillips made the impassioned statements in a personal letter to State Liberal Leader Isobel Redmond earlier this year.   He asks at th... ...Read more