Why the South Australian election is the nation's most gripping contest

In Hillcrest in the north east of Adelaide, Christopher Pyne is talking about traffic jams. An hour before, he’d been fretting about white ants in the A-frames of the Liberal party’s election posters.

Outside a suburban house, flanked by the Liberal candidate for the Labor-held marginal state seat of Torrens, Therese Kenny, Pyne says Labor has had 16 years to fix the mess of Fosters Road. He got stuck in traffic there recently, “and I thought, stuff it, I need to turn right, and I’m stuck here”.

We are on Don and Dawn Goldney’s front porch. The retired couple will be voting Liberal when South Australians go to the polls on Saturday, 17 March. Pyne notes that the Goldney front garden, neat as a pin in the late summer heat, is looking “vibrant”.

Source: theguardian