Peter Malinauskas is South Australia's new Premier as Labor won the state election in a landslide victory ousting Steven Marshall and the Liberals after just one term.
The Labor victory ends Premier Steven Marshall and the Liberal Party’s reign after just one term making them the first incumbent government to lose an election in Australia since 2018.
Premier-elect Peter Malinauskas ousted the Liberals in a landslide victory. Picture: Tricia Watkinson The Labor victory has also seen the Liberals lose five seats – Adelaide, Newland, Davenport, King and Elder – leaving some senior ministers’ seats in doubt. “I think we leave South Australia in an immeasurably better situation than what we found four years ago.”
Mr Malinauskas campaigned on the promise of improving the health system and the ambulance ramping crisis, the state’s pandemic recovery, education and clean energy.
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