239 – SA Election Night Of The New Dawn

Jay Weatherill’s concession speech

Steven Marshall’s acceptance speech

The show follows now, as it went out live on WOW-FM. Enjoy.

Tonight’s show is very different. It was a live radio show and we had to play songs to maintain the typical WOW-FM Saturday night program. However, we are not licenced for playing such music on our podcast. So, if you’d like to hear the music, we have a Spotify playlist for your listening pleasure.

1001 Nights by The Devotea … tasting notes.

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Nigel Dobson-Keeffe challenges the panel to pick the fake story from three stories from South Australia’s past.

News January 1927
NO POLITICAL PROGRESS
Hatred of injustice and a desire to help the underdog have made me a rebel since childhood, confessed Mrs. Marie E. J. Pitt, poetess and Socialist, who arrived in Adelaide yesterday with the Pioneer Tours party from Melbourne. Mrs. Pitt has been associated with the Socialist movement in Melbourne since its infancy. Prior to that she was an enthusiastic worker for the Labor Party in Tasmania, where she was vice-presi dent of the Workers Political League. The pen was her principal weapon, and she wielded it to such good effect that her writings became known all over the island.
The amusing part was that until shortly before I left Tasmania no one knew that those articles in support of Labor principles were written by a woman, said Mrs. Pitt. Prejudice against women in politics is very strong. In fact, I had to fight almost as hard to gain, recognition from my own party as against my political opponents.

Daily Herald July 1910
ABSURDITIES OF ELECTION LAW.
The other day one of the judges was giving, his decision in an election petition pointed out that the unions can send any number of carriages and people into a constituency, can run a special train to
get them there, can use the men who drive them, and yet in no way breaks the law. The learned Judge by no means concealed his view as to the lack of merit of such a state of affairs, for he said
that it tended to favor the multitudes and those who are possessed of numbers and commonness rather than quality and intellect at the expense of the richer and more progressive man, however he
added significantly and with some regret, That is a matter for Parliament and not for the court. Of course, the judge was quite right. . It is not the fault of the judicial bench if the law is inadequate or out of dale. The lawmaker’s and not the administrators of the law are to blame.

Bunyip April 1930
PREFERENTIAL VOTING.
No fewer than 20,223 electors— 12,187 in the Assembly, and 8036 in the Council — were virtually disfranchised at Saturdays elections, through failing to grasp the system. The Premier-elect (Mr. Hill)
says that Preferential Voting must be abolished, and he will take steps that such a farce cannot be perpetrated again. Mr. A. G. Cameron (Country Party) was even more denunciatory in his comments,
saying, Preferential voting is one of the most wicked things ever conceived, and my only hope is that those in the Liberal Party who were responsible for bringing it in -will -live -to regret it. The State
Returning Officer (Mr. O. H. Stephens) said the system was used for the election of the Senate, and as far as he knew in no other place in the world. Grave consideration would require to be given, to
the allocation of districts, with effective prohibition of gerrymandering tactics. The State is in the parlous position that 56 per cent, of its population resides within 10 miles of the G.P.O., and although the man on the land is accepted as the basis of all prosperity, his sparsity of numbers would create such huge districts that again Labour supporters would be in the majority with consequent return of their nominees.