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As South Australia heads towards an election in March, Labor has seized on the leak of a Liberal Party policy document as a sign of ongoing disunity in the party. But the Liberals say they're not worried, arguing the document pre-dates last year's leadership change.

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00:00Labor says it's the third Liberal leak in a week.
00:06They have not changed one bit, they are incapable of changing.
00:09It's the same old South Australian Liberal Party that is completely consumed with fighting each other.
00:16An anonymous email account labelled Ashton Circus has circulated a Liberal education policy document.
00:23Sent to media outlets in the government, it outlines yet to be announced plans to create an education fund to upgrade schools, particularly those at or near capacity in marginal electorates.
00:35The opposition says the document is out of date, created before Ashton Hearn took over the party's leadership.
00:41These are old documents and we aren't that worried about it, to be honest, because we have a singular focus on providing South Australians with a real choice.
00:51It's not the first time the so-called Ashton Circus account has shared leaked documents.
00:56On Sunday, it revealed costings for the Liberals' road policy.
01:00And last week, the government says it was also given details of a Liberal policy meeting agenda.
01:06The opposition today hit back with its own leaked document.
01:10I mean, this has come from, internally, from a Labor source.
01:14But again, I'm not interested in playing this gutter politics.
01:17The document is a list of ministers and the topics they're handling.
01:21Something the government says isn't confidential and is widely distributed.
01:26Leaks are nothing new in politics.
01:28Early in this government's term, Labor was hit with a series of leaks from someone using the pseudonym Upset Unionist.
01:35But after three leadership changes in four years, the Liberals will be keen to avoid any sustained leaks that could damage its attempts to form a united front.
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