Tesla is said to have become a trailblazer through the investment which is likely to attract other mainstream companies to invest in the top cryptocurrency. This is coming on the heels of Tesla investing $1.5 billion in the asset just three days ago. “We’ve done a lot of the upfront thinking to consider how we might pay employees should they ask to be paid in Bitcoin, how we might pay a vendor if they asked to be paid in BTC and whether we need to have BTC on our balance sheet.” The company may even pay its staff using Bitcoin, according to Segal. "As Leader of Government Business in the House of Assembly, Dan is the next highest House of Assembly Minister on the Order of Precedence.Twitter CFO Ned Segal recently announced that the social networking service company is considering adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet during a CNBC interview. "Dan van Holst Pellekaan is the interim Deputy Premier until the House of Assembly party room meets on Thursday to elect a new Deputy Leader of the Party," a government spokesperson said in a statement. The government insisted his elevation, conducted without the media present, was an "interim measure" designed to fill the post until Thursday's partyroom ballot. ( ABC News: Patrick Martin)Įarlier on Tuesday, only Environment Minister David Speirs had publicly declared his candidacy however, Energy Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan and Education Minister John Gardner were considered possibilities for the role.īut in an unexpected development, the Government Gazette issued on Tuesday afternoon indicated that Mr van Holst Pellekaan had been officially sworn in as South Australia's Deputy Premier. Mr Marshall said the lower house members of the Liberal party room would meet on Thursday to vote for the party's new deputy leader, who would become deputy premier before parliament resumes next week.ĭan van Holst Pellekaan has been responsible for the energy and mining portfolios since 2018. "The government has just received Crown Law advice confirming that the Honourable Vickie Chapman MP is able to relinquish her entitlement to additional ministerial salary for the entire period that another minister is performing the functions and discharging the duties of the Attorney-General," he said in a statement. The Treasurer Rob Lucas later clarified the government had sought legal advice on the matter. "I don't think there's any suggestion she'd be paying it to a charity, no," the Premier said. There appears to be no mechanism in the act for a minister to relinquish part of his or her salary, and Mr Marshall said Ms Chapman would not donate the additional money to charity – the option recently adopted by the new Speaker of parliament, former Liberal Dan Cregan. He was later reappointed to the ministry after a police investigation cleared him.ĭespite the Premier's insistence that Ms Chapman was only standing aside because of her responsibilities as Attorney-General, Ms Chapman has relinquished her other portfolios - planning and local government.įirst-term Adelaide Hills MP Josh Teague was sworn in as Planning and Local Government Minister by Governor Frances Adamson at Government House this afternoon.Įnvironment Minister David Speirs has declared he would like to be deputy to Premier Steven Marshall. "That's certainly what's occurred in the past." Former attorney-general left ministryįormer Labor attorney-general Michael Atkinson resigned from the ministry altogether in 2003 while under investigation. "It wouldn't be a requirement for any other cabinet minister to resign when there is an ombudsman inquiry, but because the attorney-general is essentially responsible for the ombudsman, although he does act independently, his agency sits within her portfolios and the advice that we've received is it would be best for her to stand aside. "The appropriate action is for her to stand aside, but she doesn't leave cabinet, she just doesn't attend it going forward," the Premier said.
Premier Steven Marshall today insisted Ms Chapman was only standing aside because her lead portfolio as Attorney-General oversaw the ombudsman's office. Ms Chapman yesterday announced her resignation as deputy premier, saying she would "stand aside" from her ministerial responsibilities as a cabinet minister while the ombudsman investigates whether she had a conflict of interest in refusing a timber port on Kangaroo Island as planning minister.
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