Our State - South Australia

Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC, as the representative of the Royal Family in South Australia, has several tasks that she is required to complete during the time of “court mourning”, which ended on 19 September 2022. The Governor’s responsibilities have included proclaiming His Majesty The King as South Australia’s new Sovereign at the State Proclamation Ceremony on 11 September 2...

More than 85 per cent of children and young people in care in South Australia, live in family-based care. The majority of these children and young people live with family in a kinship arrangement.  In SA, the recruitment and ongoing support of foster carers is undertaken by non-government organisations such as Key Assets , while kinship carers are predominantly supported by the Department for Chil...

South Australian families can submit registrations of interest until the end of September for midyear entry for preschoolers in 2023.  In this segment, we hear from the Department for Education's Asha Crozier, Assistant Director leading the Mid-year Intake Implementation Team and Emma Schulz, Director at Wattle Park Kindergarten, on the program.  Parents and carers are able to register their...

The Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition and resulting exhibition is managed and produced by the South Australian Museum.  Since 2004 photographers of all ages, skill levels, and nationalities have submitted images of fauna, flora or landscapes in Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea regions to the competition. This year’s judges, Nicky Catley, Doug Gimesy...

Pavely is a uniquely South Australian smartphone app and Inclusive SA initiative that drives community inclusion and greater independence for people with accessibility needs. The app provides people with disability (and the broader community) with a directory of South Australia’s inclusive and accessible venues and events. The app makes it easy for users to find new places to visit based on their...

The cultural diversity of our community makes our state a unique, vibrant place to live. It’s time to celebrate the outstanding individuals who promote and support an inclusive, harmonious multicultural South Australia. Recognise the achievements of friends, colleagues and peers by nominating now and giving them the acknowledgement they deserve - nomination for a Governor's Multicultural Awar...

After a challenging couple of years, South Australia’s events scene is seeing signs of recovery with strong attendance figures and a vibrant, year-round events calendar set to draw visitors from far and wide. We’re just finishing up the Illuminate Adelaide festival in the city – and we’ve just launched the Mt Gambier event last week, and for the first time the event will head to Victor Harbor late...

HomeStart is a South Australian Government organisation that provides home loans for South Australians. The aim is to help more South Australians into home ownership through a range of low deposit loans, shared equity and other measures for people including graduates, seniors and low-income earners.  In this episode, CEO of HomeStart Andrew Mills talks about opportunities to support more people to...

For the second year, Adelaide is playing host to Illuminate Adelaide - a celebration of the convergence of technology, light, art, and music. Taking place from 1 to 31 July, the event promises to entice locals, interstate and international visitors to the city as it brings the streets of Adelaide to a bright and intriguing light this winter. In this episode, we hear from Co-Founders and Creative D...

The South Australian Agricultural Town of the Year Award recognises South Australian towns that are excelling in agricultural practices and the flow on effect this has on regional communities. Public voting is now open to choose the 2022 finalists in the South Australian Agricultural Town of the Year Award. In 2022, there were 54 towns across the state nominated and the general public can now cast...

StudyAdelaide was established in 1998 to promote Adelaide as a destination of choice for international students to study and live and attract students to our quality education institutions, from schools to VET and higher education. More recently, StudyAdelaide has also focused on retaining international students in South Australia to live and work after they graduate. International education is So...

The $10 million See It LIVE package will deliver a suite of measures to bring the state’s live music scene back to life. The music industry has endured a tough period that saw major job losses, the cancellation of thousands of major events, and the closure of many small businesses since the beginning of the pandemic. Becc Bates, Director of Creative Industries at the Department for Innovation and...

If there's a sports-loving person in your family that dreams of representing Australia at the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games - the South Australian Sports Institute (SASI) is conducting generic fitness, and sport specific (for cycling, rowing, canoe sprint and beach volleyball), testing sessions with secondary school aged students. Listen in as Simon Cain (SASI Manager, Sports and...

Kristalle Dumesny was 18 years old when her car collided with a truck after the 2017 Easter long weekend. Kristalle received fatal injuries and sadly died at the scene. SA Police have developed Kristalle’s story into a powerfully reenacted podcast and a short documentary-style film, to emphasise road safety and highlight the toll that impacts everyone touched by road trauma. <Trigger warning&gt...

HomeStart is a South Australian Government organisation that helps South Australians into home ownership through a range of low deposit loans, shared equity and other measures for people including graduates, seniors and low-income earners.  In this podcast, HomeStart CEO Andrew Mills explains how shared equity can give customers increased buying power to get into the housing market without over-st...

After a challenging couple of years, South Australia’s events scene is seeing signs of recovery with strong attendance figures and a vibrant, year-round events calendar set to draw visitors from far and wide. Hear from SA Tourism Commission's Hitaf Rasheed and Rachael Azzopardi as they chat about the nation’s premier eating and drinking festival, Tasting Australia; the return of the Santos To...

National Volunteer Week is Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteering (16-22 May). Volunteers play a critical role at the Department for Child Protection, supporting children and young people in care in a variety of ways, including transport to appointments, family contact and respite care. Listen to Sue and Bob as they describe the impact their work has in assisting young people in ca...

Nominations are now open for the 2022 Premier’s NAIDOC Award, which recognises the outstanding achievements of a South Australian who has dedicated time and effort to making a genuine and long-lasting difference to the lives of Aboriginal people in South Australia.  This year’s NAIDOC Week theme is Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! - a call for systemic change and to keep rallying around our mob, our Eld...

South Australia’s defence and space industries are growing at the speed of light. In the coming years, South Australia will be home to a number of major naval shipbuilding projects, creating up to 5000 jobs by 2030, along with thousands of jobs across defence delivering world-class cyber and systems solutions as well as intelligence including surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare cap...

South Australian police officers are undertaking training to recognise the signs of autism and to effectively interact with autistic people, developed by the Aspect Research Centre for Autism Practice. As part of the training, police officers virtually interact with a number of different scenarios that could involve an autistic person, and encounter ‘typical’ behaviours of an autistic person. Thes...

A new advertising campaign, the first of its kind in South Australia, is targeting the over-representation of older drivers in serious injuries and lives lost on the state’s roads. People aged over 70yrs make up 13 percent of the population yet account for 23 percent of lives lost and 13 percent of serious injuries on our roads. In the period 2015 - 2019, on average there were 23 lives lost and 94...

The Governor’s Multicultural Awards recognise and celebrate outstanding South Australians who promote multiculturalism and increase understanding of the benefits of cultural diversity in our community. The Awards provide an opportunity for their stories to be celebrated and acknowledged at the highest level. The 2021 Awards were held on 10 March at Government House. Her Excellency the Honourable F...

In 2009, SA became the first state in Australia to act on single-use plastics, banning light weight single-use plastic shopping bags.  On 1 March 2021, single-use plastic drinking straws, single-use plastic stirrers and single-use plastic cutlery were banned. From 1 March 2022 this was extended to include expanded polystyrene cups, bowls, plates and clamshell containers and ‘Oxo-degradable plastic...

To celebrate 2022 International Women’s Day (8 March 2022) listen to South Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Caroline McMillen and STEM Footy Program Manager for the Adelaide Crows Katie Gloede discuss the importance of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM), and how we can encourage more young South Australian girls to pursue a STEM career. 

In an Australian first, a group of male koalas from Victoria’s Strzelecki Ranges have made South Australia their home, as part of a unique breeding program aimed at securing the survival of the species . The koalas have arrived at Cleland Wildlife Park and Adelaide Zoo where they join a group of disease-free male and female koalas, some of which were rescued during the 2020 Kangaroo Island bushfir...