The South Australian Political Landscape

[Jimmy_041]

The Communist / Socialist model is to break down both religion and the traditional family unit
Everyone should only pray, and be subservient, to the Nomenklatura

Welcome to Danistan.........

[Booney]

This is bullshit :

Toughened protest laws have finally passed parliament after Upper House crossbench MPs spoke all night, delivering hours-long speeches to stall their passage.

Speeches started about 4pm on Tuesday and continued into Wednesday morning in a marathon sitting lasting more than 14 hours.

By 6.30am on Wednesday, they were still debating amendments to the legislation, which finally passed just before 7am.

Greens MLC Robert Simms spoke for about three hours about the legislation, which had the support of both the government and the opposition.

After 9pm, he handed over to SA-Best MLC Frank Pangallo, who included in his speech – which lasted more than five hours – historical references, extensive radio transcript and a detailed defence of the right to protest.

At midnight, Greens MLC Tammy Franks moved that the House adjourn – but the government and opposition voted to continue sitting.

In the early hours of the morning, Mr Pangallo described the laws as a “faecal sandwich” and said amendments put forward by the crossbench would “go a long way to making this a lot more palatable”.

At 1am, Mr Pangallo was outlining a list compiled by TIME Magazine of the most influential protests, and by 1.30am he was quoting a speech delivered by Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.

Premier Peter Malinauskas has defended the changes and said it was misrepresentative to label them “anti-protest laws”.

He said the changes do not affect the practical application of current law, but increase penalties for people who are “deliberately obstructing people from being able to get on with their lives”.

“The penalty regime hasn’t been updated for a long time and that’s what this bill seeks to do,” he said.

The lengthy sitting comes after demonstrators from civil interest groups came together for another rally on Tuesday, calling for the state government to review the proposed “22-minute” anti-protest laws.

In the second protest in less than a week, civil society groups urged the government to review the rushed anti-protest legislation.

The protest kicked off at 9am on Tuesday, outside the Festival Plaza, and attracted several hundred demonstrators.

Protest organisers included members from the SA Unions, the Working Women’s Centre, Conservation SA, Rights Resources Network and Amnesty International Australia.

They were joined by Australian Democracy Network, Human Rights Law Centre and SA Abortion Action Coalition.

More than 80 civil society groups have already signed an open letter to parliament protesting the bill.

Before the protest, an “honest government ad” was released mocking the state government’s tougher protest laws.

The fake ad, which was uploaded to YouTube on Monday afternoon and racked up 40,000 views within a few hours, features an actor who plays a South Australian government representative.

“(I’m) here to introduce a new law to put an end to peaceful protests in our state,” she says.

“That might sound like a bad law, and civil rights groups, legal experts, even our unions are saying it’s a bad law.”

Invoking a Simpsons reference, she then says “but here at the South Australian government, we reflected on it and said ‘are we out of touch? No, it’s the people who are wrong’.”

The video was produced by The Juice Media as part of their series of Honest Government Ads.

It also takes aim at the state opposition, and features a clip of David Speirs calling protesters “greenie, leftie losers”.

[Trader]

This is bullshit :

What is? The tougher penalties or the way the greens are wasting everyone's time in parliament?

[Eagles2014]

This is bullshit :

What is? The tougher penalties or the way the greens are wasting everyone's time in parliament?

How can someone speak for 5 hours (Frank Pangallo), that's after the Greens spoke for 3 hours How ridiculous! And making decisions at 6.30 am after 14 hours is just crazy!

[am Bays]

Where were these idiots when the brewery shut down??

Wankers the lot of them!!

[gadj1976]

This is bullshit :

What is? The tougher penalties or the way the greens are wasting everyone's time in parliament?

How can someone speak for 5 hours (Frank Pangallo), that's after the Greens spoke for 3 hours How ridiculous! And making decisions at 6.30 am after 14 hours is just crazy!

If it were me, I'd just agree with whatever at 6:30am after listening to 14 hours of drivel.

[mighty_tiger_79]

the Libs and the Poolside Pete doll

[stan]

the Libs and the Poolside Pete doll [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38]

They are being creative which is nice foe a change. Honestly Pete gives them free hits these things. We have a Hospital system in crisis and yet there is money for a new upgraded aquatic centre.

Surely even rhe SA Libs can score a few goals with this one.

[Booney]

the Libs and the Poolside Pete doll [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38]

They are being creative which is nice foe a change. Honestly Pete gives them free hits these things. We have a Hospital system in crisis and yet there is money for a new upgraded aquatic centre.

Surely even rhe SA Libs can score a few goals with this one.

Yeah, right!

[mighty_tiger_79]

own goals perhaps

[DOC]

After McBride resigned this week to sit as an independent I think Spiers will be challenged for the leaders position.

[Bum Crack]

After McBride resigned this week to sit as an independent I think Spiers will be challenged for the leaders position.

How he is still there is beyond me.

[am Bays]

Yeah I’m a former member of the Young Libs

But seriously how dum are they if they haven’t learnt over the last 50 years that division is political death.

Just look over the border (Victoria)to see what happens when the **** conservative right start to control the right side of politics.

SA is centralist/moderate State. Give up the middle ground up at your peril and ditch the Christian conservatives as they are a ******* political cancer.

[stan]

Yeah I’m a former member of the Young Libs

But seriously how dum are they if they haven’t learnt over the last 50 years that division is political death.

Just look over the border (Victoria)to see what happens when the **** conservative right start to control the right side of politics.

SA is centralist/moderate State. Give up the middle ground up at your peril and ditch the Christian conservatives as they are a ******* political cancer.

Appointing Spiers as there leader showed they have learnt nothing and never learn.

It's all factional power bases and egos these days. They just can't get over themselves to get out of their own way.

And the young liberals, I remember being back at uni and the young liberals were associated with one of the groups. I remember them well, they seemed to believe they were so much better than the average person. Strangely a bunch of Engineering students didn't respond as expected.

Found memories.

I also recall a conversation with Sarah Hanson Young when she was the student union president and wondered how this **** won anything.

Good times

[Psyber]

Dan Cregan got my backing after the religiose right in the local seat tried to replace him with one of their own when he disagreed with the local conservative Liberals. I moved a motion to give him time to think over his options and it held up.

Later Dan got 75% of the vote as an independent - including mine.

[RB]

Yeah I’m a former member of the Young Libs

But seriously how dum are they if they haven’t learnt over the last 50 years that division is political death.

Just look over the border (Victoria)to see what happens when the **** conservative right start to control the right side of politics.

SA is centralist/moderate State. Give up the middle ground up at your peril and ditch the Christian conservatives as they are a ******* political cancer.

Appointing Spiers as there leader showed they have learnt nothing and never learn.

It's all factional power bases and egos these days. They just can't get over themselves to get out of their own way.

My understanding is that Spiers is factionally unaligned? Plus as a bloke who hasn't been around that long, he's not really tied to any of the previous factional machinations.

I would have thought that his election as leader was less to do with factional power bases than practically any other Liberal leadership election in SA going back 50 years.

I can't think of any better options for them amongst their current crop.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Frank Pangallo now sitting independant after quitting SA Best

[dedja]

So no change then.

[Jimmy_041]

Far out...............

But Picton had a plan

https://indaily.com.au/news/2023/12/07/unimaginable-sums-spent-on-hospital-system-in-crisis/

[dedja]

SA Health has been in crisis for a long time now, and unfortunately we're not the only state with issues.

It's already past the point where State Governments can fund their health systems to an appropriate level, but long term State Government incompetency hasn't helped!

Considering that Labor have been in power here for the majority of the last 50 years, they need to cop the appropriate criticism.

There's always efficiencies that can be found but it's seems obvious that we need to spend more in a smarter way.

With an ageing population, it's only going to get worse.