Outgoing premier says he will stay on the backbench and is not interested in going to CanberraThe ousted South Australian premier, Jay Weatherill, has said he will stand down as Labor leader and ruled out a switch to federal politics after losing Saturday’s state election. “The Labor party has plenty of fantastic choices as leader, I won’t be one of them,” he told reporters on Sunday. Weatherill would not put a timeline on the leadership change but said it would be “sooner rather than later” once the final results of the election were known. On Sunday, the leader of SA Best, Nick Xenophon, said his party could still hold South Australia’s new Liberal government to account after winning at least two upper-house seats. “It was a campaign in which I think Labor can hold its head up high,” he said.

Source: The Guardian March 18, 2018 01:30 UTC