SA

The state government has provided a revised offer of more than $1.3billion to the South Australian Education Union to fix pay and working conditions for public educators. The union has confirmed it is considering the revised offer, putting on hold plans for additional teacher strike actions. This newspaper [Naracoorte Community News] has been informed that the revised offer includes workload reduction, country incentives, and mentoring time.

Member of Barker Tony Pasin has warned that the Labor government’s Aboriginal Heritage Reforms could undermine private property rights in the region. Mr Pasin claimed the reforms would force property owners to undergo expensive mandatory cultural surveys for basic activities such as mending fences or planting trees.

New reforms targeting the local government sector will be a shakeup for elected councillors and mayors in the region. The council reforms planned for South Australia aim to strengthen calls to transform the local government sector, with many new national polls revealing the public’s strong appetite to remove or shrink local councils, have larger regional authorities, or have the state government take over their duties.

Rhiannon Koch. The trial of independent Member for Narungga Fraser Ellis began in the Adelaide Magistrates Court ... Mr Ellis has been charged with 23 counts of deception in regards to 78 claims, totalling $18,000, for the Country Members Accommodation Allowance ... He has pleaded not guilty to the charges, the earliest of which occurred just a month after his election.

The South Australian Education Union and the state government are still at loggerheads over better pay and conditions for public educators ... If the union members vote for a second strike action, many public schools, including those in Naracoorte and the Limestone Coast region, would close for another day ... Mr Gohl claimed that after nine months of negotiations, the Premier was still standing in the way of better educational outcomes for South Australian students.