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'The first thing that came to me was the smell': Commission hears aged care experiences
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When Kaye Warrener visited a family member in a nursing home six years ago, the first thing she noticed "was the smell". She is one of the first witnesses to provide personal testimony to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.
Topics: royal-commissions, aged-care, carers, health, health-administration, sa, adelaide-5000, australia
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Frustration over $42 million hotel proposal unites Adelaide AFL teams
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Adelaide's two AFL clubs are used to doing battle on the field, but have become off-field allies in a rift with Adelaide Oval management over a $42 million luxury hotel proposal.
Topics: australian-football-league, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, tourism, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, port-adelaide-5015
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'Homemade devices' found on Adelaide's O-Bahn track
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South Australian police are investigating the discovery of a number of "homemade devices" on Adelaide's O-Bahn track. The busway has been reopened after being closed in both directions.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, paradise-5075, campbelltown-5074, klemzig-5087, sa
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Raw egg butter blamed for 51 salmonella cases in Adelaide
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SA Health reveals the source of salmonella contamination in Vietnamese rolls from three Adelaide bakeries. So far, 19 people have been hospitalised.
Topics: food-safety, food-poisoning, diseases-and-disorders, health, salisbury-downs-5108, burton-5110, blakeview-5114, sa, adelaide-5000
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Parents share 'utter devastation' after Adelaide school zone change
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Black Forest Primary School parents are told to focus on the school's centenary celebrations, despite the "utter devastation" being felt by parents after changes to two Adelaide high school zones.
Topics: education, states-and-territories, community-education, access-to-education, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, black-forest-5035, sa
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Should young Australians take 'how to adult' classes to learn life skills?
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Whether it is budgeting money, doing taxes or cooking a decent meal, "adulting" can be hard. One Australian council is hoping to ease the burden on young people with 'how to adult' classes.
Topics: lifelong-learning, education, teaching-and-training, human-interest, local-government, adult-education, sa, adelaide-5000, australia
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Adelaide pilot leaves 'graffiti' on flight radar
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An Adelaide pilot takes workplace venting to all new heights by etching "I'm bored" into the sky. The Civil Aviation Authority says it is "uncommon but not unheard of".
Topics: community-and-society, social-media, internet-culture, adelaide-5000, parafield-5106, sa
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Murray-Darling Basin Authority hits back at claims made in SA royal commission
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The Murray-Darling Basin Authority rejects claims of maladministration levelled against it by SA's royal commission into the river system and says scrapping the plan for the basin would be "reckless".
Topics: murray-darling-basin, rivers, environment, federal-government, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, royal-commissions, states-and-territories, law-crime-and-justice, water-saving, water-management, environmental-management, irrigation, adelaide-5000, sa, goolwa-5214, renmark-5341, mildura-3500, vic, menindee-2879, bourke-2840, nsw, toowoomba-4350, qld, dirranbandi-4486, dubbo-2830, australia, broken-hill-2880, wilcannia-2836
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'No recollection' of lawyers being used as informants in at least 18 years, SA Police says
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South Australia Police says it has not used lawyers as sources since at least 2000 after previously not ruling out the possibility intelligence had been gathered in a similar way to the Victorian Lawyer X.
Topics: judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, police, royal-commissions, adelaide-5000, sa, melbourne-3000, vic
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SA Government moves to scrap GM crop ban
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The SA Government considers overturning a longstanding ban on genetically modified crops, after a review finds the policy has cost farmers more than $33 million in the last 15 years.
Topics: crop-harvesting, agricultural-crops, rural, horticulture, genetically-modified-food, genetics, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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Giant spiders and pink elephants: The opera as you've never seen it
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Director Barrie Kosky collaborated with two people who had never seen an opera to create this hugely popular version of Mozart's tale, which premieres in Australia this week.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, opera-and-musical-theatre, classical, music, film-movies, theatre, australia, united-kingdom, germany, perth-6000, adelaide-5000, sa, wa
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Aboriginal healers treat patients alongside doctors and nurses (photos)
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A public hospital in Adelaide taps into 60,000 years of traditional medicine from Aboriginal healers — also known as Ngangkari — to help treat Indigenous patients.
Topics: health, health-policy, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, indigenous-other-peoples, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, adelaide-5000, sa
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Snails slowly but steadily spreading deep into cropping areas around the country
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Invasive snails that first appeared in South Australia have now spread through large areas of states around the country and are playing havoc with farmers' harvests.
Topics: pest-management, pests, pests---horticulture, agribusiness, agricultural-chemicals, agricultural-crops, rural, wallup-3401, horsham-3400, warooka-5577, vic, sa, wa, nsw
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Alleged backpacker rapist sacks defence team mid-trial
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The man accused of kidnapping and raping a European backpacker at his Meningie property sacks his lawyer. The judge tells the jury while "unusual" the situation is "not unheard of".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, adelaide-5000, meningie-5264, sa
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'Socially conscious' millennials needed for aged care workforce, commission hears
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The aged care sector needs to triple its workforce by 2050 as providers seek to attract "socially conscious" millennials to take up the task, the aged care royal commission hears.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, aged-care, sa, adelaide-5000, australia
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Tired driver led 'blameless life' before fatal accident
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The family of a council worker killed by a tired driver urges others to assess their mental and physical state before getting behind the wheel, because life "can be gone in an instant".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, traffic-offences, adelaide-5000, greenwith-5125, sa
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Great Australian Bight drilling report 'whitewashes' oil spill risk, Greenpeace says
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A company proposing to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight releases its environment plan, but Greenpeace says it is downplaying the risk of a major spill.
Topics: oil-and-gas, industry, environment, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, environmental-management, oceans-and-reefs, adelaide-5000, port-lincoln-5606, leigh-creek-5731, port-pirie-5540, kingscote-5223, ceduna-5690, sa, australia
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'Pure anger': School zone changes have parents worried about property prices
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Parents and real estate industry experts fear property prices could fall in suburbs moved out of the zones for two of Adelaide's most sought after public schools.
Topics: public-schools, secondary-schools, schools, education, state-parliament, black-forest-5035, adelaide-5000, sa, heathfield-5153, mount-compass-5210, strathalbyn-5255, port-augusta-5700, nuriootpa-5355
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'It's a joke': Online reviews might be fake but their effects are real
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People offering to be paid to post fake reviews online, a practice that can hurt businesses if negative feedback has been "bought" by competitors, are warned they risk being prosecuted for fraudulent behaviour.
Topics: internet-culture, social-media, fraud-and-corporate-crime, information-and-communication, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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ABARES crop report confirms tale of two seasons with eastern pain, western gain
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The Australian Government's commodity forecaster has confirmed what eastern seaboard farmers know all too well — that grain production in 2018 was disastrous.
Topics: agricultural-machinery, small-business, wheat, cotton, rice, agricultural-crops, agricultural-prices, irrigation, agribusiness, rural, grain, drought, walgett-2832, bega-2550, coffs-harbour-2450, dubbo-2830, lismore-2480, muswellbrook-2333, newcastle-2300, orange-2800, port-macquarie-2444, tamworth-2340, wollongong-2500, alice-springs-0870, katherine-0850, darwin-0800, sydney-2000, brisbane-4000, melbourne-3000, adelaide-5000, hobart-7000, perth-6000, canberra-2600, bundaberg-4670, cairns-4870, southport-4215, mackay-4740, mount-isa-4825, rockhampton-4700, maroochydore-4558, toowoomba-4350, townsville-4810, broken-hill-2880, mount-gambier-5290, port-lincoln-5606, port-pirie-5540, renmark-5341, burnie-7320, ballarat-3350, bendigo-3550, horsham-3400, mildura-3500, sale-3850, shepparton-3630, warrnambool-3280, wodonga-3690, albany-6330, broome-6725, bunbury-6230, esperance-6450, geraldton-6530, kalgoorlie-6430, karratha-6714, kununurra-6743, vic, sa, nsw, qld, wa
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Aged care royal commission assault numbers revealed
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There were more than 3,700 assaults in Australian nursing homes in the past financial year — and that excludes incidents when residents attacked each other, a royal commission is told.
Topics: aged-care, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, health-administration, australia, adelaide-5000, sa
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Zone changes for two Adelaide CBD high schools
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The SA Government announces it will reduce the zones for Adelaide High School and Adelaide Botanic High School, in a bid to reduce pressure on both institutions.
Topics: education, access-to-education, community-education, distance-education, adelaide-5000, sa
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Quality of prisoner assessments in SA 'at risk' under new plan
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A South Australian Government plan to boost the number of health professionals who can give prisoner risk assessments to a court is a "bandaid" solution and could compromise the quality of advice, a forensic psychologist warns.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, crime, psychology, sa, adelaide-5000
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Men charged over two separate Adelaide shootings
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One man is remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with attempted murder while another is expected to face court charged with acts likely to cause harm, after two unrelated shootings in Adelaide over the weekend.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, west-beach-5024, burton-5110, sa
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Redeveloped Repat to focus on rehabilitation and dementia
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Less than 15 months after the controversial closure of Adelaide's Repat hospital, the SA Government unveils new plans for the reopened health precinct, with a focus on brain and spinal injury patients as well as dementia care.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health-administration, health, veterans, states-and-territories, daw-park-5041, adelaide-5000, sa, australia