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Labor has extended its two-party-preferred lead over the Liberals in SA, the latest Newspoll shows.

South Australia's Labor government has capped off a strong year with a surge in voter support, the latest Newspoll shows.

The News Corp Australia poll, published on Wednesday, shows Labor has a two-party-preferred lead of 53 to 47 per cent over the Liberal opposition.

The Liberals' primary vote has plunged from 44.8 per cent at the March state election to just 33 per cent, with Labor claiming 35 per cent of the vote.

Voters overwhelmingly backed Premier Jay Weatherill, with 47 per cent of voters nominating him as preferred leader compared with 29 per cent for Steven Marshall.

The results will come as another blow to the Liberals, who had been widely expected to reclaim power at the March election after 12 years in opposition.

Despite claiming 53 per cent of the two-party vote, the Liberals failed to win key marginal seats, paving the way for Labor to form minority government with the support of independents.

Labor shored up its parliamentary numbers in May when former Liberal leader Martin Hamilton-Smith made a shock defection, throwing his support behind the government as an independent cabinet minister.

The Liberals' woes deepened in December when Labor claimed a stunning win in a by-election for the southern suburbs seat of Fisher, once considered safe Liberal territory.

Labor's victory was driven partly by a strong negative campaign on federal issues, including Abbott government cuts to health spending and uncertainty about future submarines contracts.

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'The coalition committed $10 million towards an online safety for children policy.': Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: Rob Homer

Since the Coalition took power in September, Malcolm Turnbull has valiantly played the happy Communications Minister - uninterested in higher office, perfectly content plugging copper into Labor's national broadband network and axing redundant legislation. On Wednesday, the Abbott government will hold its first ''repeal day'', with Turnbull overseeing about half of the 8000 repeals.

But there's a fly in Turnbull's deregulation soup. If you want to make the loquacious free-marketer go quiet, ask him about his understudy Paul Fletcher's plan to introduce a new ''children's e-safety commissioner'' with the power to force social media sites to take down content deemed harmful to children.

Celebrated by anti-bullying groups, the policy is strongly opposed by social media companies, telecommunications firms and newly appointed Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson.

The idea emerged from the Coalition's online safety working group, set up by Tony Abbott in opposition, which travelled around the country to talk to parents, students and teachers about cyber bullying.

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Victorian Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie, a member of the group, says she was disturbed to learn about a Bendigo Facebook page, ''Benders root rater'', which judged the sexual performance of teenagers as young as 13.

''The men involved in that site eventually have been sentenced, or received suspended sentences, but that was a year after the page went viral.''

Fletcher, chairman of the working group and now parliamentary secretary for communications, says: ''Twenty or 30 years ago, if you were bullied at school, you could at least go home and feel safe That's not the case any more. All the major sites have complaint schemes but the feedback we got was that, when people report problems, the experience is not always what they want it to be.''

Fletcher's solution is to appoint an official with the power to issue ''rapid removal'' orders if large social media companies refuse, or are too slow, to remove material deemed harmful to someone under 18. The government is also considering creating a new Commonwealth cyber-bullying offence.

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Despite repeated Conservative assurances the next federal election will be in October, opposition parties remain skeptical and are preparing for an early campaign.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he has no plans for a vote before Oct. 19 the date mandated by 2007 legislation that establishes the third Monday in October every four years as election day.

October, 2015, it is, as the Prime Minister indicated, Mr. Harpers spokesman, Jason MacDonald, told The Globe and Mail on Monday.

And in a Dec. 27 fundraising e-mail to supporters, the Conservatives count down to a fall campaign, saying there are 295 days until the next election.

Still, the New Democrats and the Liberals are getting ready just in case the Conservatives deem the spring more opportune timing.

The Liberal website, for example, shows the party has nominated 182 candidates, and a spokesman said two candidate training sessions have already been held. We have to be ready for a spring election, said Olivier Duchesneau. Well go when we have to go.

The NDP, which has booked a plane for both the spring and fall, says it is finalizing financing arrangements, including negotiating a campaign loan. In an e-mail to supporters on Dec. 28, the NDP explicitly warns: If the pundits are right and Stephen Harper calls an early election, this could be the last fundraising deadline of our campaign.

We have a what if scenario for the spring, said NDP national director Anne McGrath, noting the Conservatives pre-empted a fixed-election date before, when Parliament was dissolved in 2008 after the 2006 election that brought the Tories to power.

Experts say the Conservatives may find motivation to go to the polls before the fall, citing, for example, the April start date for the expenses trial of suspended senator Mike Duffy, who was appointed by the Conservative government.

We have to remember that an incumbent government never, ever, ever telegraphs when an early election might take place it should be no surprise that the Conservatives assert they expect the election to happen in the fall, said Nik Nanos, the head of Nanos Research. But theres no benefit in keeping a promise if youre going to lose.

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