South Australia does not usually wake up on election day at the centre of the national mood. But this morning, a contest that looks settled on paper is carrying a much stranger energy.

Labor, under Premier Peter Malinauskas, is expected to win today’s state election comfortably.

The real movement is happening elsewhere; in the noise around One Nation, the protest vote in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis gathering around the once marginal party, and the possibility that a state election could end up telling us something bigger about where Australian politics is heading.

Today, InDaily SA editor Belinda Willis on the state election that may be a whitewash for Labor, but a warning for everyone else.

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