Peter Malinauskas grabbed headlines by announcing a royal commission into AI. How genuine are his ‘nation-leading’ moves?

The South Australian premier says his choices, including on AI and the social media ban, are powered by the need to turn the state’s smaller size into agility

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It is a tale oft told that Labor kingmaker Don Farrell spotted Peter Malinauskas’s potential when Malinauskas was a shelf-stacker at Woolies.

Thirty years on, the South Australian premier is garnering a reputation for audacious “nation-leading” moves, and Farrell, an SA senator, is still singing his praises.