Peter Malinauskas grabbed headlines by announcing a royal commission into AI. How genuine are his ‘nation-leading’ moves?

The South Australian premier says his choices, including on AI and the social media ban, are powered by the need to turn the state’s smaller size into agility Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It is a tale oft told that Labor kingmaker Don Farrell spotted Peter Malinauskas’s potential when Malinauskas was a shelf-stacker at Woolies. Thirty years on, the South Australian premier is garnering a reputation for audacious “nation-leading” moves, and Farrell, an SA…