Behind the scenes, Jay Weatherill might actually be a bolshie, sparky firebrand but he slips into soothing auto-pilot at the lectern, almost disconnected from what he is saying, writes Des Ryan, of InDaily.
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Farewell salvo: Cappo slams SA’s ‘self-serving’ bureaucracy
Social Inclusion Commissioner David Cappo has unloaded on the “self-serving” South Australian government bureaucracy for being an unmovable obstacle against achieving real social reform, writes Des Ryan of InDaily.
Adelaide’s gossip mill in overdrive over MP porn charges
A blanket suppression order covers the identity of a South Australian state Labor MP who has been charged with possessing child p-rnography. But Adelaide is gossiping, and it’s all bad news for Labor, says InDaily editor Des Ryan.
Liberal by-election blues
It seems scrutineers obsessing over the Nationals had neglected to consider the actions of Greens voters in the Frome by-election.
Pyne should know sorry won’t lead to compensation
The Opposition Justice Spokesman Christopher Pyne can sound awfully shrill when he gets excited. And on the issue of the Stolen Generation and the Rudd government’s proposed apology it is one of those occasions, writes Greg barns.
