September 11, 2026 — 5:00am

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Senator Don Farrell wasn’t the headline speaker at Wednesday evening’s annual Sydney Institute dinner lecture. But that wasn’t going to stop the Labor Party godfather from hoofing it up to Sydney to be there for his old friend and South Australia’s Premier Peter Malinauskas .

Not a total surprise, of course, given the pair go way back. Farrell and Malinauskas met in 2001, after which Farrell, then boss of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association in South Australia, hired Malinauskas, who was…

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