Three days ahead of the Adelaide Festival’s opening night and Arts Minister Jack Snelling today confirmed in Parliament that the Festival faces a severe $1 million funding cut in coming years.

News that students living inside the Glenunga School zone may not be able to attend the school as a result of overcrowding is an indictment on the Weatherill Government.

Record numbers of fires, fights and drugs found in our state's prisons this year paint an alarming picture of a system in chaos as a result of the chronic capacity crisis.

The State Liberals are calling on Labor MP Nat Cook to retract and apologise for offensive comments about police attempts to reduce the harm from illicit drugs at music festivals.

The State Liberals will introduce amendments to the Statutes Amendment (Home Detention) Bill 2015, scheduled for debate in Parliament today, to prevent home detention sentencing options being used for murderers, serious sex offenders and
terrorists.

White Ribbon Day is an important opportunity for us to discuss the damage of domestic and family violence, but it is also critical that we take action to address domestic and family violence, according to Liberal Corrections spokesman John Gardner.

"One urgent action that the Weatherill Government needs to undertake is to introduce a domestic violence focused rehabilitation program into our prisons," Mr Gardner said.

The Weatherill Labor Government has today run out of Government Business in the House of Assembly at 3:50pm.

This follows news that State Parliament will only sit for 47 days next year.

The SAPOL Annual Report has revealed that there are 48 fewer police officers on our streets this year compared to last year.

The Weatherill Labor Government has completed less than half of its Planned Prescribed Burn Program in the Mount Lofty Ranges increasing the risk posed by bushfire to the communities of the Adelaide Hills.

South Australian taxpayers are forking out almost $240,000 for five empty police stations across the Adelaide metropolitan area.

The Newton, North Adelaide, Blakeview, Tea Tree Gully and Malvern police stations were closed by the Weatherill Labor Government on 1 July this year.