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River Murray communities will benefit from the largest disaster assistance package in South Australia’s history to help them recover from their biggest flood since 1956 – and the bill could get higher.  Health Minister Chris Picton will look at ways to fast-track disabled people through the hospital system after a social media exchange with a distraught mother became a catalyst for potential wider...

Four people were killed and three seriously injured after two helicopters on holiday joy rides from Sea World collided mid-air over the Gold Coast.  South Australian property prices have skyrocketed faster than any other state in the past year, earning homeowners tens of thousands of dollars.  Some of Australia’s biggest companies are exploring  four-day weeks with no cuts to remuneration – herald...

POlice have found a two-year-old girl – the daughter of Charlene Warrior,  who was found dead in a tree in 2021 – after issuing a national alert.  Australia will introduce mandatory Covid testing for travellers from China amid a “rapidly developing situation”.  Tourism leaders and the opposition have called on the state government for  clarity on when  remaining restrictions on recreational River...

Almost 200 electrical contractors have put up their hands to help reconnect power to thousands of flooded Riverland properties in a looming operation described by the Premier as a “massive undertaking”   A court has heard a jealous man fired a bullet from a 100-year-old gun through his former partner’s couch while high on cocaine;  An alleged Adelaide master hacker with  microchips embedded in his...

An interstate psychiatrist will be appointed to review the treatment of a suicidal teenage boy – but his family say they have not been given a new plan to keep him alive in the meantime.  Youths as young as 16 are taking photos of themselves armed to the teeth with modified firearms in a disturbing escalation of  the northern suburbs gang war.   Dozens of  Riverland residents have dug deep to help...

THE family of a distressed and suicidal teenage boy say he has been so failed by the health system that they are considering taking him overseas for treatment.  THERE is a light at the end of the tunnel for Riverland communities as floodwaters will rapidly drop to 60GL per day in early February.  CLAIMS by Anthony Albanese that the former Coalition government chose not to engage with China as dipl...

The South Australian Premier says The peak has been reached in the flood for Renmark, said Premier Peter Malinauskas in a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. A high ranking emergency physician has lashed SA Health in a four page resignation letter in which she says the current state of the RAH emergency department “offends the very humanity” of doctors working there.  US President Joe Biden d...

Employers are scrambling to immediately recruit more than 12,000 workers across several key industries. Family and friends of Robert ‘Bob’ Eldridge, who was violently stabbed to death on Christmas Day at his Reynella East retirement village, have remembered him as a likeable “family man”.  Former Miss Universe Australia, Olivia Molly Rogers’s ex has been left on the cutting room floor after the be...

It's been a rather sharky start to the holiday season, with the toothy creatures closing metro beaches on two occasions this week and big great whites being spotted near popular holiday spots.  Dramatic footage has captured the moment a 16-year-old girl was arrested by police  over the stabbing of a 55 year old man, who was found with life-threatening wounds inside a house.  Another South Australi...

SHOPPERS  are expected to spend a record $1.5bn in South  Australian Boxing Day sales, with retailers offering massive discounts on a wide-range of products from  homeware  to  cosmetics. A YOUNG Adelaide Hills family has experienced a heartbreaking double blow – with the father suffering a severe back injury in a motorcycle accident while his son battles life with a brain tumour. It’s a Christmas...

ADELAIDE Footy League is standing in the way of the Crows’ potential move to Thebarton Oval. FLOOD peaks are set to hit River Murray communities across Christmas Day and Boxing Day – but there is a light at the end of the tunnel, with a clearer picture of when waters are set to subside. A  CAMPAIGN has been launched to have the CBD’s controversial late-night lockout scrapped. HE was dubbed Adelaid...

THE ABC breached its own code of practice after a two-part Four Corners program about Fox News was found to have “omitted relevant information in a way that materially misled the audience.” The South Australian government has approved new technology that will allow EV owners to use their car to power their house and potentially sell excess electricity back to the grid. TOURISM is surging towards i...

AUSTRALIA will not allow its grievances with China to be used as leverage during high level talks in Beijing, as Foreign Minister Penny Wong declares the “hard issues” will take time to resolve.  A former British fighter pilot living in the Adelaide Hills is under investigation for his alleged involvement in the training of Chinese fighter pilots. Non-essential boating, swimming, fishing and other...

TRACES of the illicit drug cocaine have been detected at parliament house on the last sitting day for the state’s politicians, a special investigation by The Advertiser can reveal. Increased pressure on the road network and the integrity of the Lower Murray levees must be on the government‘s radar during the state’s flood crisis, according to the Mayor of Murray Bridge. LIBERAL losses in two elect...

CLOSING Hindley and Rundle streets to vehicles to create a landmark 2.1km pedestrian strip spanning the length of the CBD will be considered as part of a major traffic review of the city centre. MEDICATIONS including commonly prescribed antibiotics, diabetes medicines and a major treatment for urinary tract infections are in such short supply that GPs and pharmacists face looking for substitutes....

THE ban on catching snapper will be extended by another three-and-a-half years as the state government invests millions to support sustainability and fishing sectors. NEW allegations of bribery and illegal practices in the Adelaide City Council election have emerged, including the offer of a job and mass enrolment, according to court documents. CHARITABLE organisations are facing high demand unlik...

South Australian councils will be forced to increase rates or cut services to pay for electricity bills expected to increase by nearly 400 per cent. The SES has warned people in low-lying areas between Mypolonga and Tailem Bend, including Murray Bridge, should prepare to evacuate as floodwaters rise. The Albanese government will allow citizenship ceremonies to be held on a day other than Australia...

SOUTH Australian broadcast news veteran Jane Doyle signed off for the last time on Thursday night after three decades of dominating television ratings. Australians are about to spend up a storm on Christmas feasts, with tonnes of holiday food to be purchased amid warnings to get in early, with particular products already selling fast. Snake sightings are on the rise in flood-affected river communi...

THE Brickworks Marketplace shopping centre has been spared from a blue snakelike structure soaring 12m immediately to the east as part of an elevated roadway. A YOUNG woman has died after she reportedly fell from the Pacific Explorer cruise ship off the Limestone Coast in the early hours of Wednesday morning. FOODS like ice cream and butter could be feeding some cancers “addicted” to the fats, Ade...

THE brothers who executed two police officers and their innocent neighbour in a cold-blooded ambush on the Darling Downs were  f uelled by bizarre conspiracy theories .  THE Cold War between former Adelaide captain Taylor Walker and commentator Kane Cornes has erupted again. A NEW personalised vaccine against melanoma has almost halved the rate of recurrence and death in a major turning point desc...

Police have arrested and charged a sixth person with rape over an alleged gang attack on two women in a Hindley St carpark earlier this month. Glenn Holton, 41, was shot and left on the street to die just after 9.15pm last night. Two men were stranded in the sea for almost 12 hours after their jetski broke down at Venus Bay on the Eyre Peninsula. Crows winger Paul Seedsman and wife Alice have anno...

YOUNG criminals have armed themselves with firearms in an esca­lation of Adelaide’s gang war involving people of African descent. THE Adelaide Crows have a dream start to next year’s AFL season, with four of their first five games at Adelaide Oval. SOUTH Australian country students are attending university at one third of the rate of their city cousins, and universities have been told to lift thei...

An expert paediatrician has told an inquest into the death of an 11-week-old baby living in squalid conditions that his death was preventable and likely occurred because he was co-sleeping on a filthy sofa bed. Single and partnered Australian travellers headed for the Indonesian tourist island of Bali have been left in limbo as DFAT has not updated their advice to include warnings about new local...

Red tape holding back overseas workers from gaining Australian visas will be slashed to accelerate the recruitment of a world leading defence workforce, as Anthony Albanese makes an urgent call to arms for our brightest young minds to help protect the nation. PROPOSED merger of the University of Adelaide with UniSA presents an “unique opportunity” to transform education within SA and the nation, s...

Major Crime detectives were called in to investigate the death of an 11-week-old baby living with his teenage mother in a squalid property in a rural SA town, an inquest has heard. A YEAR  after he was  exiled from Australia after a five-day stay in a detention centre, tennis superstar Novak Djokovic is returning down under – and Adelaide is his first stop. There is no “systematic way” of deciding...