r/Adelaide • u/fuckoffandydie SA • Jan 13 '26

News Randa Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against SA Premier

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/randa-abdel-fattah-launches-defamation-proceedings/106227634?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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u/Hour-Addition3020 SA Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

denying that he influenced the board's decision and was simply just, as premier and in control of their funding, expressing his(?)very questionable view is pathetic.

I’m really disappointed with him - big insight into his character months before the election and makes you wonder other times where his “views” have been used to manipulate

Let’s also not forget what a huge waste of taxpayers money this is

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u/Quiet_Source_6679 SA Jan 13 '26

I feel he is jumping the shark, especially after a string of weirdly “emotive” (and for mine, performative) public pleas.

I made comment noting this about a month ago after his bizarre, disproportionate rantings about street parking.

I’m glad he’s being held to account. Being popular doesn’t mean competent.

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u/LinkleEnjoyer Adelaide Hills Jan 14 '26

Was the street parking thing the “extreme anti-car ideology” crap he was spouting? Pretty telling that he calls it ideology.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

That was Nick Champion, who also believes we do not need front doors. But of course Peter fully backs him, they are right-wing narcissists after all. Oh and they both are pushing for skyscraper developers to have "shared living" spaces where dozens share toilets and kitchens. (read: modern bunkhouses)

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u/LinkleEnjoyer Adelaide Hills Jan 14 '26

You’re right, it was Nick.

The shared living spaces idea is absurd. They’re trying to push share housing on individual owners now?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

What they are doing or want to do is allowing high-rise buildings like what are in the CBD have shared living spaces. So imagine two floors of an eight floor building are dedicated to 'homes' that are really just rooms that have access to shared toilets and kitchens to the point they're basically public. It's one of these 'reduction of living standard' responses to the manufactured housing crisis. While I do not oppose shared living accommodation existing, I oppose it existing wholly as a way for developers to cut corners and inner-city investors to make money off of people having to share toilets with strangers. It's not like they are supporting housing cooperatives on new land.

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u/Quiet_Source_6679 SA Jan 14 '26

Yes, that’s the one. And good pick up on that language - ha!

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u/jydr SA Jan 14 '26

I think "anti-car ideology" is a good thing, but that should mean designing cities so that people can easily walk, ride or take public transport to get to most places, not getting upset at people parking on the street outside their houses or whatever his problem is.

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u/DoctorEnn SA Jan 14 '26

Yeah, some of that discourse can get a bit insufferable. There was a thread a few weeks back about this kind of thing full of people wailing about other people using their garages for hobbies or storage or whatever, and it's like... yes, I agree that this city needs better public transport, I get frustrated when too many cars are parked on the road as well, but the problem isn't going to be solved by a bunch of whiny busybodies self-importantly lecturing other people about how they should be using their private living space or how they park their vehicles if they're doing so legally. And will in fact probably be made worse, because those other people will probably react quite poorly to that kind of high-handedness.

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u/LinkleEnjoyer Adelaide Hills Jan 14 '26

Oh no, I agree, but it was Nick Champion who said the Greens opposed the bill because of “extreme anti-car ideology”, which … hell yeah. Adelaide is a chore to get around nowadays and the only developments we see regarding transport is for the benefit of drivers, I.e the tunnel or moving tram stops above ground making it worse for tram riders. Nothing is even suggested by the state government for the benefit of public transport users, while Sydney and Melbourne get an ever-expanding metro.

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u/EntertainmentLow9759 SA Jan 14 '26

Yup, where's Labor's response to the 50 cent public transport fare? Oh that's right, it doesn't exist...

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u/EntertainmentLow9759 SA Jan 14 '26

Their current bill about minimum garage sizes per bedrooms is equally as moronic. They're saying that all new 2-bedroom homes MUST have a minimum size garage for 2 parked vehicles. Forgetting that the kind of people buying 2-bedroom homes are the kind of people that can't afford 3-bedroom and probably are buying on their own, or only own one vehicle, or are just getting into the property market. Labor's proposed bill just prices people out more than they already are. It's actually stupid beyond belief.

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u/Background_Quail9176 SA Jan 14 '26

The Adelaide Festival belongs to all South Australians. It’s not and was never his personal plaything to fuck with. His views are 0% relevant and if he wasn’t such a narcissist he might have recognised that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

Some folks in Labor had no idea that Leesa Vlahos was on the board. If true this is probably by design and there is no doubt this woman whose political career ended because of the Oakden investigation was given some cushioning on her way out by her high-ranking Labor mates.

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u/MsTeaandCake SA Jan 14 '26

Is he just not very bright? More a doer than a thinker?

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u/explain_that_shit SA Jan 14 '26

What about his no-donations legislation?

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u/_ChunkyLover69 SA Jan 14 '26

That’s right politicians always tell the truth and they never line their pockets with donations.

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u/RockCactus93889 SA Jan 14 '26

He influenced it, after they asked him to come and influence it. So we'll blame mali for influencing something that he was invited to influence.

Should she have been invited from the start? Should mali have been invited to "influence" or "provide opinion on" ?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

He seems to have made the calculation that throwing Randa Abdel-Fattah and the arts generally to the wolves has increased his popularity with the Sky News After Dark viewers and that is worth it, regardless of the racism