Leah MacLennan is an Adelaide based reporter. She has worked for Stateline and 7:30 South Australia. Follow Leah on Twitter @lmaclennan
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Labor clears the path for Peter Malinauskas, seen by some as a potential future ALP leader, to switch houses at the next South Australian election, which is just over a year away.
Topics: states-and-territories, alp, political-parties, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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Rabbit owners are being urged to make sure their pet is vaccinated, as the South Australian Government prepares to release a new strain of the calicivirus.
Topics: pests, environment, rural, pest-management, science-and-technology, sa
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| UpdatedAdelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital failed to report the deaths of eight infants over a nine-year period, and the delays in reporting have serious ramifications for investigations, coroner Mark Johns says.
Topics: health, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThe SA Government has suggested "complete nationalisation" of the electricity system and a new gas-fired power station as two options to secure power supply.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, alternative-energy, environment, states-and-territories, energy, adelaide-5000, sa
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Rorting might happen once the private sector takes over some public sector elderly and disability services in South Australia, a union warns.
Topics: health-policy, older-people, disabilities, states-and-territories, health, government-and-politics, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedFormer South Australian Liberal senator Sean Edwards, who lost his seat at the last federal election, accuses Cory Bernardi of misleading the party's preselectors.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedElectoral Commission figures show Nick Xenophon and Stirling Griff contributed $250,000 each towards their party's election campaign.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedA $757,000 grant the SA Government paid to a lobby group campaigning against education funding cuts during the federal election should be investigated by the auditor-general, the South Australian Opposition says.
Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe head of two major public hospitals in Adelaide has been sacked in the wake of controversy about a 20-bed ward's future.
Topics: public-sector, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, healthcare-facilities, health, adelaide-5000, woodville-5011, sa
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| UpdatedSouth Australian Premier Jay Weatherill apologises in State Parliament to members of the LGBTIQ community who have been discriminated against because of legislation, citing the case of a British man who died in the state but his marriage was not recognised.
Topics: parliament, government-and-politics, state-parliament, discrimination, community-and-society, gays-and-lesbians, laws, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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New laws to legalise growing industrial hemp are introduced to the South Australian Parliament by the Greens as politicians are told "it cannot get you stoned".
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, adelaide-5000, sa
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A no-confidence motion against Water Minister Ian Hunter passes SA's Upper House following an expletive-laden outburst at a meeting of water ministers this month.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, water-management, water, federal---state-issues, environment, adelaide-5000, sa
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A local company left out of pocket when a key contractor for the Clipsal 500 car race went into administration is refused payroll tax relief by the South Australian Government.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA woman is convicted of animal cruelty after leaving 14 cats in her Adelaide home without food or water for so long they apparently ate each other, with just one pet surviving.
Topics: courts-and-trials, animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, mental-health, woodville-5011, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedOpposition Leader Steven Marshall says he will not support the building of a high-level nuclear waste facility in South Australia after a citizens' jury voted strongly against the proposal.
Topics: nuclear-energy, nuclear-issues, alternative-energy, environment, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA new veteran's mental health facility that will be opened under the South Australian Government's Transforming Health plan will be named after fallen soldier Sapper Jamie Larcombe, as the first sods are turned at the centre.
Topics: mental-health, health, veterans, defence-and-national-security, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSouth Australia's ICAC commissioner pushes for the right to hold public hearings into corruption allegations, despite an apparent lack of political support for the idea.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, gillman-5013, sa
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Two bills before South Australia's Parliament are designed to give the national energy regulator more teeth, allowing it to monitor and expose anti-competitive behaviour, the Energy Minister says.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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South Australian Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis apologises in Parliament for calling Opposition Leader Steven Marshall "Botox boy", but appears unrepentant outside.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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The South Australian Government will reintroduce its bill later this year to allow people to change the gender on their birth certificate after a shock defeat in the Parliament.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, sexuality, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedLegislation to recognise relationships — whether they be same-sex or de facto — will be introduced into SA Parliament today in the wake of a case in which a British man struggled to have his marriage recognised on his husband's death certificate.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, sexuality, community-and-society, family, family-and-children, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSouth Australian police abusing their powers to stop and search people and vehicles could be the start of civil liberties being eroded over time, the Acting Police Ombudsman says.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, state-parliament, states-and-territories, sa, adelaide-5000
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Legislation to create a children and young people's commissioner passes South Australia's Lower House but the Opposition wants more information before it can pass further measures.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, child-abuse, family-and-children, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa
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An independent report into the deadly Pinery bushfire in South Australia finds no actions taken by the Country Fire Service could have altered its course.
Topics: bushfire, fires, disasters-and-accidents, mallala-5502, freeling-5372, wasleys-5400, hamley-bridge-5401, sa, australia
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| UpdatedTwo train strikes, including one as thousands of footy fans travel to watch the Crows play at Adelaide Oval next week, are planned.
Topics: community-and-society, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, unions, adelaide-5000, seaford-5169, marino-5049, sa