There is no doubt that the Liberals in South Australia still have several challenges ahead. Constant cost cutting and poor planning and administration by the past state Labor government have left the states health system in crisis. Ambulance ramping at major hospitals has reached unprecedented levels as Labors " new, most expensive hospital in the world per patient " was always simply too small for our population and the closure of our largest hospital has left the state without the capacity to care for our elderly and vulnerable.
The education sector is also in crisis as our states TAFE has been independantly audited and found to be grossly incompetant, giving certificates to students which do not meet industry standards and resulting in " trained " ex students having to restudy and resit exams.
Our Schools have also suffered as a result of Labors incompetence. SA. Students regularly place at the very bottom of national NAPLAN results. The really silly part is that the states teachers union has just gone on strike seeking a pay rise and demanding that the SA Liberals continue with Labors disastrous education policies which have seen the students suffer the worst educational outcomes in Australia.
All of these policy areas are supposed to be Labors strong points and yet after more than a decade of Labor rule social institutions are all in crisis.
Add to that the scourge of corruption which follows the union dominated Labor party around like a bad smell and the Liberals have a huge mess to clean up. The states ICAC commissioner has recently come out and publicly stated that corruption is endemic in all levels of the public service with bribes and kick backs a regular occurrence in state procurement contracts and gross waste, mis-management and non accountability also a problem.
The change of government has lead to a dramatic rise in business and consumer confidence in the state and this is already flowing through to a fall in unemployment, increased house and commercial property prices in the face of a national falling property price cycle and investment decisions by businesses. The Liberals are addressing exhornenant payroll tax impositions and have introduced a range of other policy measures to assist small to medium sized business to grow and employ people.
The Liberals have already overseen improvements in the economy. It remains to be seen wether they can clean up the huge mess in social policy left behind by the last Labor government..
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