Just before midnight on Wednesday, the South Australian parliament passed a raft of changes to how politics runs in the state. Here's a look at what has changed. 

The recent by-election loss in Adelaide's south comes just eight months after another party blow — the loss of former premier Steven Marshall's seat of Dunstan.

SA Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia says his party will not re-visit the late-term abortion debate following its by-election loss in Black, warning anyone who introduces a private member's bill on the topic "won't be welcome in the shadow cabinet or in the cabinet".

Labor has described the Black by-election boilover as a "vote of confidence" — but the result is equally, if not more, telling for the South Australian Liberal Party, which has been whittled down to just 13 lower house MPs.

The South Australian Liberals concede defeat in the seat of Black in Adelaide's south in a result that is a hammer blow to the party, which has now lost a second by-election in eight months.

Voters in the South Australian state electorate of Black are returning to the polls today for the third by-election in the state in less than three years, with the final days of the campaign characterised by an exchange of complaints from both major parties.

Former SA opposition leader David Speirs appears in court for the first time since being charged with drug offences.

Supercars will be racing around Adelaide next weekend, but a different political race is underway in the southern suburbs. But how much of an impact has the state's former opposition leader had on this by-election? 

Labor is accusing conservatives of using abortion as a "political football" while the LNP believes Labor is running a scare campaign.

The outcome of two misleading assertions in 2022 reinforces what many in Australia have long suspected — that when it comes to the facts, there is one set of rules for politicians and another for everyone else.