SA Water's Copper Coast water augmentation charge will rise from $5,927 to $9,310 per residential allotment - a 57 per cent increase.

For residents on the west coast of Yorke Peninsula and the Copper Coast the quality of television reception has been an ongoing issue for many years.

The Rann Labor Government’s harsh property tax regime continues to cripple investment in South Australia.

A petition with 2,396 signatures was presented in Parliament today calling for the State Government to provide additional funding for our road network.

An Isobel Redmond Liberal Government will invest more than $40 million per year in a special fund to build infrastructure and create jobs in regional South Australia.

More than 1 billion additional taxpayer dollars have been spent on employing an extra 16,393 public servants since the Rann Labor Government was elected in 2002.

Business confidence in regional South Australia is the second lowest in the nation after New South Wales.

The Rann Government’s own target of tripling the value of South Australian exports to $25 billion by 2014 is in tatters after ABS figures released today revealed the state has seen a fall of 9.7 percent in goods export value – to put the figure at just $9.3 billion.

Last week the State Government announced that low level contaminated waste will be accepted at Northward Fill Landfill, Inkerman.

On Monday Member for Goyder Steven Griffiths MP met with Transport SA representatives to discuss the State Government controlled road network within the electorate.

Since becoming elected to Parliament in 2006, I have written to the Minister for Transport, the Hon Patrick Conlon MP, many times regarding the condition of the roads within Goyder.

Regional South Australia was again neglected in Labor’s State Budget, which slashed funding for roads and health and failed to deliver on jobs and water.

The Yorke Peninsula town of Stansbury will today find out whether it has been crowned Australia’s Tidiest Town.

Four major South Australian regional towns are to have court services slashed as part of the Rann Government cuts to services in the lead up to the May 2009 budget.

A proposal to investigate South Australia’s crippling land tax regime has been negligently denied by the Rann Labor Government.

Kevin Foley’s budget blackhole has deepened with South Australia’s share of GST revenue falling by more than $700 million over the next two years.

Eleven top public servants employed in the Premier’s own department earn more than $240,000 a year.

A Yorke Peninsula Water Infrastructure External Project Reference Group has been established as part of SA Water’s Long Term Plan to ensure that the Yorke Peninsula drinking water supply has sufficient capacity to enable growth and development over the next 30 years.

More than 4000 public servants in South Australia earn in excess of $100,000 per year but almost none of these positions are in country South Australia.
 

The Rann Labor Government identifies in the 2008 budget that a 37.2 per cent increase in land tax revenue from private property will be received, up from $227 million to $306 million.

The Rann Government’s revised Strategy for Planning Country Health Services in SA was released last week following public backlash towards the original plan which was released in July.

State Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith spent last Wednesday visiting development sites around the Peninsula and holding informal talks with representatives from the District Councils of Copper Coast and Yorke Peninsula, before sharing his vision for South Australia with Liberal Party members during a Gala dinner at Yorketown.

The State’s unemployment rate lags above the national average with 38,000 South Australians jobless.

South Australia continues to have the highest unemployment rate in Australia with young people faring the worst under Premier Mike Rann.

Last night more than 600 people attended a packed Yorketown Hall to call on the Government to scrap its Country Health Care Plan which would see their valuable local hospital downgraded to a GP centre.

Under the Rann Government’s Country Health Care Plan, 43 of the State’s 66 country hospitals will be downgraded to little more than first aid posts.

Unemployment figures have worsened for South Australia for the second consecutive month - we now have the highest unemployment rate of all States.

It seems the future of the Yorke Peninsula Health bus beyond June 30 is on a knife-edge as various parties lobby for its continuance. "The indecision on the future of the Health Bus service to Yorke Peninsula is causing enormous concern to residents," Member for Goyder Steven Griffiths said yesterday (Monday).

Federal Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey has joined State Member for Goyder Steven Griffiths in demanding the State Government use some of its GST windfall on the state’s roads dangerously in need of repair.

As South Australia’s unemployment rate continues to be higher than the national average (SA 4.9% compared to national average 4.2%), labour force indicators show that employment within the local region is also lagging.

Premier Rann’s economic management has delivered South Australia the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

Mr John Tonkin, Area General Manager, Telstra Country Wide – SA North visited Kadina recenlty to give an update on local services.

State employment and economic figures released this month indicate South Australia continues to lag behind the nation.

The exodus of young South Australians looks set to continue with the state recording the dubious honour of the nation’s highest youth unemployment rate.

The employment and economic boom that is gripping the nation is bypassing South Australia, new figures reveal. 

A petition signed by more than 2100 people opposing the Rann Government’s Shared Services Reform has been presented to State Parliament.

More than 12 local health jobs will be lost in Port Lincoln as part of the Rann Government’s flawed Shared Services proposal.

The axing of TAFE SA jobs in regional South Australia will slash education and training opportunities and worsen the skills shortage.