Pretty good summary, but missed one thing that troubles me with SA; the sheer intensity of intensifying attacks on parklands, environment, open spaces and Adelaide's "commons" in general.
As to the RAH, is it so bad that it might not continue in modified form, with specific tasks removed to a less expensive new premises, where appropriate?
You see, we are not hearing much from Redmond. They favour the small target approach, but I need to know what they are going to do about about certain things, and I find the silence ominous.

Paul,
I agree with your observation about:

"the sheer intensity of intensifying attacks on parklands, environment, open spaces and Adelaide's "commons" in general.

by the Rann Government. Sadly, this does not appear to be an election issue. Another indication that there is no real policy agenda in SA?

Oh, the Liberals are promising to turn the Southern Expressway into a two-way highway from its current one-way configuration; and they pledged to give South Australian sport a lift with a $1.6 million boost for netball. Rann Labor promises to spend more on the Southern Expressway.

I see that Mike Rann and Labor wants to make the 17-day Adelaide Festival an annual event. The Adelaide Festival would join the newly annual Fringe Festival and annual music festival WOMADelaide, thus supporting SA's claim as "the festival state" each February and March.

The Piping Shrike had some interesting things to say about state politics.

http://www.pipingshrike.com/2010/03/the-slow-death-of-the-states.html

Most are in the same position as SA - not much choice between parties with no real reason to be on opposite sides other than factional argy bargy. Tasmania is about the only politically interesting state left.

Lyn,
I agree with the Piping Shrike's thesis of the depoliticising of state government over the last decade. It is very obvious in SA.

The argument about the decline of the authority of state government's is also persuasive:

Without any political agenda, and any real base in society that it could represent, state government is becoming not only about little more than public services, but lacks the authority that might let them manage any problems that arise.

We don't really expect that much from our state politicians do we?

Even the Sunday Mail editorial was trying to drag them off, over Arkaroola and new mining exploration applications for it.
Now I know what a blue moon loooks like.
BTW, read an interesting piece in the Age from that old workhorse "unattributed",
"Maddern media plan shows theinner workings of spin".
It was well enough written to be amusing, if it wasn't so sad, as to subject matter.

Kenneth Davidson has a paragraph in his an op-ed The Age that says a lot about state politics:

The art of politics has become a game where politicians — through opinion polling and focus groups — sniff out what the electorate wants and then use the media megaphone to feed the voters back their own ideas masquerading as policy.

That describes the Rann Government's approach to law and order in SA.

I see that recent polls suggest that the Liberals have drawn level with Labor in South Australia and that Mike Rann's popularity plummets along with the ALP's primary vote. Clearly Rann is on the nose with voters.

A contest? Labor has been in office eight years and looks tired and jaded.

Anthony Green's analysis of the recent polls reinforces the bad news for Rann Labor. He says:

The key problem for Labor is that a 36% primary vote is worse than the vote Labor received when it only just scrambled into office at the 2002 election....The one advantage the government still has is the presence of sitting MPs in marginal seats, and the liklehood that there will be Independents returned in at least two seats that would normally be Coalition strongholds.

Green suggests that this poll points to the election producing another parliament in which neither major party will have a clear majority.

it is now obvious that Rann is on the nose with voters and there is rising panic in the ALP. Hence the return this week to law and order issues, a feature of the Rann Government's first term in office.

Lets hope that there is a hung Parliament. The Rann Government has become too arrogant.

Labor is in the position of losing an election that as recently as few months ago seemed in the bag.My guess is that Rann will be returned, but only just. Rann then retires in a a year or so upon being returned to office.

It is still highly unlikely that Redmond's LIberals will gain enough votes to form a minority government. The Liberals hold only 14 of the 47 seats in the lower house, but if they win five seats, that could result in a hung parliament, giving them a chance to govern with support from the crossbenches.