Mike Rann

Winners of the South Australian Premier’s Food Awards announced

In announcing the winners of the 11th annual Premier’s Food Awards, South Australian Premier Mike Rann said it was outstanding that more than half of the winners maintain a strong connection to the environment and the...

Howard blamed for rail failure

INLAND rail link proponent Everald Compton has attacked the Howard government for setting the Adelaide-Darwin railway up for failure, as he attempts to take it over by making a bid to combine it with his own ambitious project.

Teen knifed at party

AS another youth was yesterday taken to hospital with stab wounds, the State Government revealed it is in talks with the Police Commissioner to crack down on knife violence. It was the third stabbing incident in Adelaide in...

Australia's states press for carbon trade changes (AFX)

By Rob Taylor CANBERRA, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The premiers of South Australia and Tasmania states wrote to centre-left Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to press for changes in design of the scheme, which will begin in 2010 and force...

No better solution than pipeline: Brumby

Victorian Premier John Brumby says opponents of the north-south pipeline do not have any better solutions for Victoria's water shortage. The pipeline would pump water saved through irrigation upgrades in the state's north to...

Howard left alone with Aunty

FEW who watched it at the time will have forgotten the ABC's 1993 television series Labor in Power. Between them, its writer Phil Chubb and producer-co-director Sue Spencer came up with a gripping account of the ALP's decade on...

Emergency deal for Lower Lakes

LAURA ANDERSON, GREG KELTON THE nation's water ministers have signed off on an emergency plan for South Australia's Lower Lakes, in a bid to avoid the lake system becoming acidified. At a Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial...

Australia's states press for carbon trade changes

By Rob Taylor CANBERRA, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The premiers of South Australia and Tasmania states wrote to centre-left Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to press for changes in design of the scheme, which will begin in 2010 and force...

When Will the Auto Industry Bail Outs End?

CANBERRA—The car industry has been bailed out again despite a record of taking taxpayers' money and then cutting jobs. GM, Toyota and Ford came cap in hand to Canberra, begging the coalition to freeze tariffs at 10 per cent and...

Rann slams Xenophon over pipeline

South Australian Premier Mike Rann says attempts in the Senate to stop the Goulburn to Melbourne pipeline could endanger the establishment of an independent River Murray commission. Independent Senator Nick Xenophon plans to...

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