Is the Premier’s Achilles’ heel angering older voters?

It’s been quite the week as anger over park lands trees being cut down and a ban on controversial fracking in the South East lifted. Mike Smithson claims he was just as surprised as the Premier when passions failed to be dampened over a “lost cause”.

A week is a long time in politics, as we all know, but the Premier must be wondering when life will return to normal.

He’s basked in a record-breaking election victory, capping off a prolonged ride down easy street, but the wheels have fallen off, perhaps by design.

He has almost four years to fix his current wonky jalopy, so he’s getting the show on the road as soon as possible.

Mass tree felling had to happen sooner or later under his upgrade plan for the North Adelaide Golf Course.

In his own mind, potentially losing the LIV tournament but picking up the Australian Men’s Open in tandem with the Women’s event was a good result, which I would fully endorse.

In following up with his election commitment and the so-called mandate to press ahead with the redevelopment plans, it all fitted his bigger picture, knowing that he would always hit the odd, controversial ball into the rough.

But the level of organised and prolonged anger over the tree removal has surprised most observers, with the Premier not yet out of the rough.

Let’s turn back the clock and drill down into the nitty-gritty of the past week.

Eight days ago, on May 10, around midday, the Premier stated at a media conference that he didn’t have an exact timeframe on when chainsaws would fire up and trees start crashing down.

“I’m not able to confirm,” he said.

“But I certainly know there was an intention to start that work before the end of May.”

It started less than 24 hours........

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