Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks at a news conference at Parliament House in Canberra November 30, 2017. AAP/Mick Tsikas/via REUTERS
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - South Australians go to the polls on Saturday in a tight race with big implications for national politics and foreign investment in a state with the most wind and solar power, but the highest electricity prices in the country.
While its outcome will not dislodge Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the vote presents a choice between renewable energy, pushed by South Australia's centre-left Labor government, and coal, backed by Turnbull's conservative government, which has mocked the state's "big experiment" in wind and solar energy.
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