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Liberal leader Steven Marshall has flagged a shake-up of the South Australian public service.

He says some departmental chief executives report to too many ministers and departments could be more efficient.

Mr Marshall will not reveal which departments are earmarked for change.

"We're doing some final portfolio movements at the moment with some agencies which I think are in illogical groupings under the current Government and we'll finalise that," he said.

Mr Marshall says, if the Liberals form government, he will continue with his current frontbench team, but will not confirm which ministerial roles might change until after the election.

The Liberals are promising to change South Australia's fines system if they win power.

Part of the changes would flow from an audit of fixed speed and red light cameras to ensure they operate in high-risk zones rather than with an eye to revenue-raising.

The Liberals say they would spend $1 million annually for an independent authority, separate from police and the courts, which would give people a review mechanism for expiation notices without having to go to court.

"Our policy will underpin a renewal of public confidence in the system and restore the use of fines as an effective law enforcement tool," shadow attorney-general Stephen Wade said.

But Attorney-General John Rau says an independent organisation outside of the court system already has been set up.

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TORONTO - Members of the Ontario legislature won't get a pay raise before 2019 under proposed legislation that the opposition parties said Tuesday was an attempt by the Liberal government to distract from its "sorry" record ahead of a possible spring election.

The Canadian Press has learned the Liberals will introduce the bill next week to avoid an automatic pay increase for MPPs of five to six per cent that would kick in April 1.

There's little chance the bill could pass before the last legislated pay freeze expires, but government sources said the salary hike would not go through as long as the new legislation is on the order paper.

The legislation will extend the pay freeze which was first imposed in 2009 and then renewed in 2012 until 2019, and even then MPPs would only get a raise if the provincial budget is balanced.

The Liberals face an $11.7-billion deficit, and the sources said freezing the pay of politicians and their non-unionized political staff is the government's way of leading by example in reducing government spending.

The opposition parties, however, said the MPP wage freeze was more about distracting voters from the Liberals' poor record in government.

"They've got two police investigations on them, a whole bunch of scandals lined up behind them from eHealth to the gas plants scandals, and this is an attempt to take the attention off what is a pretty bad record on the part of this government," said NDP house leader Gilles Bisson. "They're trying to position themselves on a populist message in light of what could be an election this spring."

The Liberals attempted to impose a two-year wage freeze on civil servants and more than one million people in Ontario's broader public sector, but the Progressive Conservatives said there were too many loopholes that allowed people to get raises.

"They talk about restraint and they talk about wage freeze, but 98 per cent of the managers did receive an increase," said PC finance critic Vic Fedeli. "We're the only party talking about an across-the-board legislated wage freeze for everybody."

Ontario MPPs are supposed to make 75 per cent of what Members of Parliament make, but have been capped at $116,500 a year for the past five years. They would be entitled to a raise of up to six per cent this year to maintain that ratio.

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