South Australian State Election Date - 17 March 2018
Looks like this will be the final edit for the election. Good luck voting everyone and make sure to go out and get your Democracy Sausages!!
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Rapid antigen tests that check for Covid-19 will go on sale in South Australian supermarkets on Friday after the state government lifted a ban on the self-administered tests.
Premier Steven Marshall announced on Thursday afternoon that the tests would be permitted to be sold in SA to the general public for self-testing from Christmas Eve.
Drakes Supermarkets say they are ready to go, with test kits expected to be on shelves in all of their stores at some point during the day.
Nick Xenophon is a former independent senator from South Australia, originally campaigning for gambling reform. At the last federal election, last year, he formed a national party to further his platform (a lot of common-sense centrism). Late this year he retired from the senate to contest the state election next year with a new South Australian state party, SA-BEST. Despite being a third party, he's quite well known and generally well thought of, and is already polling above both the major party leaders as preferred premier. He himself, however, keeps saying that such a result is totally improbable and he just wants to be an influencer. Screw you, Nick. This isn't about what you want.
For Americans and others: Premier = Governor, but like electing our Prime Minister it's the leader of the party with the most votes in the parliament, not a directly elected candidate. So Xenophon will need to win more of the state's electorates with his candidates than either of the major parties for this to come true. There might be a situation where he could win by forming a coalition with a smaller party, but he legitimately doesn't seem that keen to actually be the Premier so I'm guessing he'll only take it if he wins outright.
Todd Edwards was born on May 12th, 1974 in Dubuque, Iowa, as the son of a farmer and a nurse. During the 1980s farm crisis, his house was mortgaged, which made him become active in politics as a Midwestern populist. He enlisted in the military in 1993, being deployed to Iraq ten years later, where Edwards killed 47 enemy troops. He returned to America in 2006, being narrowly elected to the State Senate two years later. Edwards was known as one of the most populist senators, and soon become the Minority Leader. In 2014, Edwards ran for United States Senate promising protectionism, two-tier universal healthcare, a living wage, protecting unborn life and gun rights and to champion rural infrastructure.
