Glimpse of life after Turnbull comes from South Australia
It's Labor party's testing ground to show how it can govern if it wins elections
Canberra
SOUTH Australia has always been a bit different: it's the driest state on the Earth's driest inhabited continent, the world's first place to let women stand for election and the nation's only settlement to exclude convicts.
Nowadays it's a testing ground for the opposition Labor party to show how it could govern if it wins the next national election. South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has initiated a range of offbeat policies to stimulate an economy devastated by the demise of traditional manufacturing industries, from opening a nuclear waste dump to raising taxes on big banks to tasking Elon Musk with installing the world's largest renewable-energy battery.
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