Shadow Treasurer
Shadow Minister for Energy and Mining; Small and Family Business; Industrial Relations and Public Sector
Office
Parliament House
North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
Contact
(08) 8237 9520
benhood.office@parliament.sa.gov.au
Ben Hood was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council in March 2023. He lives in Mount Gambier with his family and is a passionate advocate for regional South Australia, for smaller, less interventionist government and conservative values.
Authorised by B. Hood, Parliament House, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
🚨 South Australia’s debt is heading toward $50 billion by 2029 and Labor has no plan to repay it.
The interest bill alone is climbing toward $3 billion a year. Right now, that’s $5 million every single day — money that doesn’t fund a single nurse, teacher, or metre of road.
And these aren’t our numbers. They’re Labor’s.
See the debt clock tick in real time at SADebtAlarm.au ... See MoreSee Less
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Providing payroll tax relief will help South Australian businesses - and keep a lid on what they need to charge the customer.
The State government have pocketed $300m extra payroll tax revenue. We are calling on them to provide some relief to the ones who take the risk, employ people and keep our economy moving. ... See MoreSee Less
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🚨 The government just tried to dress up a $700m+ health budget blowout as a good news story.
While we have record ramping, elective surgery wait lists growing, nurses still waiting for a pay deal and regional health having services cut, this is how they treat you… with spin. ... See MoreSee Less
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I hope the first course of action is to stop the siphoning of South Australian dollars across the Victorian border via the IncoLink redundancy fund that the Victorian CFMEU have been hellbent on pushing here. And while they are at it, they can stop muscling out South Australian businesses on the big jobs.
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‘Important moment’: Vic stranglehold on SA union branch broken
www.adelaidenow.com.au
The state’s CFMEU branch has appointed a South Australian boss, reversing a controversial 2022 takeover of the branch by the union’s Victorian branch, then controlled by John Setka.0 CommentsComment on Facebook