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Abe Maddison

Voters forgo sugar-hit as law and order tops budget

Stephen Mullighan frames his SA budget as strategic investment balanced with fiscal discipline. (Matt Turner/AAP PHOTOS)

A $395 million "law and order" package to fund hundreds of extra police officers headlines a state budget forced to absorb the impact of a troubled steelworks and an escalating drought.

Delivering his fourth state budget on Thursday, South Australian Treasurer Stephen Mullighan had little to offer in the way of sweeteners before the state election in March.

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