Thomas is a reporter for the ABC in Adelaide with experience covering politics, urban development and higher education.
South Australia's premier tells Pauline Hanson he will work with any One Nation MPs elected on Saturday, as a new poll shows the right-wing party remains ahead of the Liberals.
ABC News joined Nick McBride on the campaign trail in Lucindale, a small sheep and cattle farming town 345 kilometres south-east of Adelaide, where locals gathered at the footy oval for the annual show.
South Australia's second-largest city does not have an MP, but some say it has an incumbent.
An election campaign boat trip involving the SA premier has faced criticism after the state's peak recreational fishing body — which says it organised the trip — admitted it breached marine regulations by towing lures in a sanctuary zone.
There were a few surprises when the final list of candidates was revealed for the 2026 state election. Here are four quick takeaways.
The former opposition leader's attempt at a political comeback is a risk for both the major parties — but also himself.
South Australia's embattled Liberals have openly declared their willingness to strike a preference deal with One Nation. Will it help or hurt them on election day?
In the final week before the election writs were issued, the SA Premier trained his sights on One Nation while the Liberals fought for oxygen. Is it a sign of the campaign ahead?
It's an almost unthinkable scenario, but the fact it's even being discussed shows the extent of the Liberal Party's predicament.
Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf project is facing plenty of problems across the world, but you would not read about it when the circus flies into Adelaide.
Labor faced a humiliating election loss following the state bank collapse in the early 90s. Now, recent polling shows a collapse of another kind could be brewing for the Liberal Party with One Nation hot on its heels.
As Adelaide Writers' Week went up in flames, Julian Hobba contemplated resigning as Adelaide Festival's executive director. He now says "we needed to trust the judgement" of the literary event's former leader, Louise Adler.
The grandparents of missing four-year-old boy Gus Lamont say the family has "cooperated fully with the investigation and want nothing more than to find Gus and reunite him with his mum and dad".
While South Australia is considered a more moderate state than Queensland or New South Wales, March's state election will still be a chance to gauge the seriousness of One Nation's polling surge and the impact of the Coalition split on the Liberal Party's brand.
Former South Australian Liberal leader David Speirs says there is a way he could stand for the upcoming state election — but is yet to declare whether he will — despite the electoral commission declaring he is ineligible.
Former opposition leader David Speirs would "not fulfil the nomination requirements" if he applied to be a candidate at the upcoming state election, the state's electoral commission says, raising significant doubts about his chances of a political comeback.
The dramatic cancellation of Adelaide Writers' Week spiralled the news cycle out of Premier Peter Malinauskas's control. But will the saga actually mean anything come the March state election?
Adelaide City Council will consider supporting an alternative literary festival following the cancellation of the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week.
After backing the Adelaide Festival's decision to drop a Palestinian Australian author from Writers' Week, Peter Malinauskas is now trying to distance himself from a crisis that threatens to do untold damage to South Australia's festival reputation.
Independent MP Nick McBride, who is currently on home detention bail for the alleged assault of his wife, could receive around $100,000 in public funding to support his re-election campaign, according to the state's electoral commission.
Nearly a dozen former leaders of the Adelaide Festival are calling for Randa Abdel-Fattah to be reinvited to Writers' Week, adding to a mounting crisis over the Palestinian-Australian author's exclusion from the literary festival.
Four of the most senior public servants working on South Australia's algal bloom have rejected allegations that departmental staff had been instructed not to investigate the cause of the ecological disaster until after March's state election.
South Australian MP Nick McBride, who has been charged with aggravated assault, says home detention will make him "more focused" on his electorate ahead of the SA election in March.
South Australia's doctors' union has raised concerns that clinicians were distressed when asked to admit more patients at a new mental health unit at Noarlunga Hospital when staffing levels were "not clinically safe".
The lower house of South Australia's parliament has two representatives from the Limestone Coast. Both are now in custody.