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SA opposition leader criticised over beheading remark when defending anti-protest laws

David Speirs said protest was ‘a good thing’, but ‘there are some countries where your head would be cut off for doing that sort of protest’

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Protest penalties defended by SA opposition leader on basis 'your head would be cut off' in some countries

The SA Greens and Human Rights Watch condemn a remark defending SA's controversial protest penalties by opposition leader David Speirs, who said that in some countries "your head would be cut off" for taking to the streets.

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SA rushes through tougher laws for climate protests

South Australia will lift fines for public obstruction to $50,000 or three months' jail amid a wave of climate protests.

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Extinction Rebellion protesters arrested as SA government plans drastic fine increase

The SA government is looking to increase fines from $750 to $50,000 after an Extinction Rebellion protest caused major traffic delays yesterday, with the group today targeting the Santos building.

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Four-year-old sick boy left without pillow at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital, opposition says

A boy who was admitted to hospital in pain last month with a suspected bowel obstruction had to sleep on a folded up towel because nurses couldn't find him a pillow, despite an audit by the state government into hospital supplies.

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LIV Golf coincides with 'egregious' abuses in Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Watch warns

As South Australia prepares to host the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, a human rights watchdog condemns the tournament as a blatant example of "sportswashing" amid a period of "egregious" human rights abuses.

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SA Liberals look to the future with values statement

SA Opposition Leader David Speirs has moved to modernise the Liberals after the party's loss to Labor at the last state election in 2022.

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Ambulances ramped in Flinders Medical Centre car park, as emergency department hits capacity twice in past week

Ambulances are being ramped in a dedicated space on the fourth floor of a major Adelaide hospital.

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South Australia's historic Indigenous Voice to Parliament has passed, but what happens now?

South Australia's Premier Peter Malinauskas has conceded he does not expect the state's First Nations Voice to Parliament to lead to sudden improvements but hopes that "over years and decades to come, there is some positive change".

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SA becomes first Australian jurisdiction to create First Nations Voice to Parliament as historic bill passes

South Australians gather in the heart of the Adelaide's CBD to watch history being made as the First Nations Voice to Parliament bill is passed.

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SA Libs want parliamentary committee to oversee AUKUS

The South Australian opposition says a state parliamentary committee should oversee the AUKUS project to ensure continued bipartisan support.

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South Australian doctors' union warns Adelaide's hospitals are unprepared for winter surge

SA Health promises to open another 26 beds at the Flinders Medical Centre next week, as the state opposition labels the government's "fit to sit" strategy a "sham" and a "disgrace".

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Young Women's and Children's Hospital cochlear implant bungle victim describes years of struggle

Jun Ting Song — who has just turned nine years old — is one of 30 identified children whose cochlear implant was not programmed properly at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital.

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Women's and Children's Hospital cochlear implant bungle left Aspasia and Amelia to 'suffer in silence'

A mother whose nine-year-old daughter's cochlear implant was wrongly programmed at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide says her issues with the hospital's audiology department date back years and include misdiagnoses and delayed treatments.

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Here's what we know so far about the SA ICAC report titled 'Yes Minister'

SA's premier and opposition leader both say the unnamed minister in an ICAC report is not them and they don't believe it to be any of their colleagues either.

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Labor's Lucy Hood welcomes brother Ben Hood to parliament as Liberal MP in historic first

A new Liberal MP has been sworn in to South Australia's Legislative Council but Ben Hood's first day of parliament has been a bit different to most, with his sister Lucy, who is a Labor MP welcoming him to the house.

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Liberals set female target for next SA poll

The South Australian Liberals will seek to pre-select women to run in half of all seats at the next state election.

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Opposition calls for targeted road safety campaign after P-plater tailgated David Speirs

A P-plate driver was recently filmed dangerously tailgating South Australian Opposition Leader David Speirs's car, prompting calls for a targeted online road safety campaign.

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Shake up for South Australian Liberals

Liberal leader David Speirs announced his new shadow cabinet on Sunday, saying he believes his party will win government again in 2026.

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South Australian opposition to introduce legislation allowing e-scooters on state's roads

South Australia's Liberal MPs plan to introduce a bill to parliament to allow e-scooters and other personal electric transport devices on the state's roads after the ABC revealed a user had been jailed for three days over Christmas.

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Call to expand vaccine for encephalitis

The availability of the vaccine to fight Japanese encephalitis needs to be expanded in South Australia, the state's opposition says.

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Former SA Liberal minister quits politics

South Australia's former health minister Stephen Wade, a Liberal, is quitting politics after almost 17 years in the state's upper house.

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Former SA shadow road safety minister Tim Whetstone regrets not telling Liberal leader David Speirs sooner about loss of licence

Tim Whetstone, whose seat of Chaffey covers the flood-hit Riverland region, announced on Friday he would step down from the shadow road safety portfolio after he lost his licence for three months.

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Call for more SA flood money, troops

Riverland residents impacted by River Murray flooding need more help, the South Australian opposition says.

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COVID-19 'complicated' Liberals' SA election campaign but not sole factor in loss, review finds

An internal review has found the former South Australian government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic was not the sole factor that lost the Liberal Party the state election.

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