Thomas is a reporter for the ABC in Adelaide with experience covering politics, urban development and higher education.
The government asking the state's anti-corruption watchdog to look at the $15.4 billion South Road project has been spun as a proactive step against potential bikie infiltration, but there is devil is in the detail.
South Australia was once the launch site for children under 14 on the NDIS. Now it is grappling with how to handle the federal government’s sweeping changes to the scheme.
The Malinauskas government has made a virtue of its willingness to take risks and do things differently, but could that strategy be about to become unstuck?
Less than a year after a $500 million state government-backed merger, the new Adelaide University is already looking to cut staff numbers by offering early retirement packages.
Flinders University has apologised for underpaying 1,405 current and former staff an amount that equates to roughly $687 underpaid per person.
Landlords would be held more accountable for the sale of illicit tobacco from their tenants' businesses, under a proposed crackdown in SA that would also significantly boost fines and jail time.
The poster child of Australia’s green energy transition has had its share of stress tests and could miss its target for net 100 per cent renewables by 2027. But what would the impact be?
The Malinauskas government has spent nearly $200 million on advertising in its first four years in office, including a record spend last financial year.
Topic: State and Territory Government
Three experts leading South Australia's Royal Commission into Artificial Intelligence will begin their work today amid the "rapid pace" of changes the technology is already bringing to the workforce.
The new Adelaide University is not on track to meet its international student targets and is staring down tens of millions in lost revenue, with the federal government's migration clampdown squeezing the business case for the newly merged institution.
One Nation has described Senator Alex Antic's election as state president of the Liberal party as a "win" for South Australia.
Alex Antic defeated SA Upper House leader Nicola Centofanti in a ballot of Liberal Party delegates on Saturday morning.
In a ballot that will have implications in Canberra, the South Australian Liberal Party is set to decide whether its future lies with the controversial right-wing senator.
While the blast furnace has gone cold, the heat is turning up on the South Australian government's long-term vision to fix the Whyalla steelworks and the money being poured in to "save" it.
In an unlikely political alliance, One Nation will back a Greens' bill to permanently ban fracking for gas on South Australia's Limestone Coast.
The catalyst for the Malinauskas government's $45 million upgrade of the North Adelaide Golf Course has filed for bankruptcy. But the story could have been far worse.
South Australia's Electoral Commission did not follow up with polling officials who indicated they wanted to work at the 2026 state election, multiple former officials say.
The South Australian Electoral Commission was trying to find staff to manage polling booths only hours before election day, with internal messages revealing the extreme pressure officials were under.
Adelaide's new $96 million MotoGP track has received mixed reviews from motorsport fans and riders, with some excited by the return of heritage elements but worried it is "not going to make for very interesting racing".
The Malinauskas government's grand unveiling of its MotoGP track showed just how much pressure it faced over the environment. It's also opened up a fracture in the green movement.
Nearly 400 trees will be removed in Adelaide's eastern parklands to make way for a new MotoGP street circuit costing $96 million, the South Australian government has revealed.
One day, Peter Malinauskas might bask in the glory of bringing another popular major event to Adelaide. For now, his MotoGP coup is being fiercely resisted.
Some supporters of rebel South Australian Senator Alex Antic want to demote SA Liberal President Leah Blyth to an unwinnable senate spot, claiming a "betrayal" on conservative causes.
Fears about bird flu's potentially devastating impact on South Australia's penguins have fuelled calls for the creatures to be vaccinated against the virus, with Kangaroo Island's mayor saying the local population has "taken a hammering" in recent years.
Some residents of South Australia's largest federal electorate say they are yet to receive census information by post, prompting confusion and concern about the possibility of fines.
