“It was a big agenda and I just want to focus on getting that delivered and then turn our minds to whatever’s next.” ‘Worry about what we can control’ “Hydrogen, health, education – everything from preschool to university amalgamation – big legislative reform around our democracy, whether it be the Voice, banning donations. “I challenge anyone who observes politics, particularly South Australian politics, and ask them: ‘When was the last time that a government got elected in South Australia with the breadth of the policy that we got elected on?’,” he told InDaily. It’s policies like those, he said, which deliver what his government set out to create, as he put it on election night: “A fairer, better society and more opportunity.”
Instead, Malinauskas was keen to spruik his government’s introduction of legislation for a First Nations Voice to Parliament, the establishment of a Royal Commission into delivering preschool to three-year-olds and funding to support children with autism as among his proudest achievements in the job. I say this in cabinet on a frequent basis: ‘Challenges shouldn’t be something that ministers develop a degree of anxiety about’ It’s a momentous announcement for a government hitting its one-year mark, but when InDaily sat down to speak to the Premier at his Parliament House office last Thursday morning, details of what turned out to be a complex, three-nation deal costing up to $368 billion were not yet publicly known.
He is in the United Kingdom, visiting the Barrow-in-Furness shipyard and meeting with defence officials in London in the wake of Tuesday’s AUKUS nuclear submarine announcement and its promise of long-term jobs and industry for South Australia. Malinauskas will spend the lead-up to Sunday’s state election anniversary away from his family. Premier Peter Malinauskas with his wife Annabel West and three children, Sophie, Jack and Eliza at Government House. Burra wheelbarrow race to roll again after 40 years Search All categories
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