Michael Coggan has been reporting on Northern Territory issues since 1996, and has been the Darwin correspondent for Radio Current Affairs. He has had many roles with the ABC, including hosting NT Stateline (2003-2004) and presenting the 7pm television news (2004-2008). He spent a year based in New Delhi, India (2008-2009) reporting for the ABC's international broadcaster, the Australia Network.
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| UpdatedThe installation of a new gas-fired generator and the establishment of a solar thermal power plant are the most likely short-term solutions to electricity shortages in South Australia, the director of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute says.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, federal-government, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAustralian engineering students building the next generation of faster, lighter and more efficient solar cars for this year's Darwin to Adelaide race are excited about a new IMAX movie that will showcase the event to an American audience.
Topics: solar-energy, engineering, adelaide-5000, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA widowed pensioner searching for a "fishing mate" bags some new friends after his call-out online "went bloody viral".
Topics: community-and-society, lewiston-5501, sa
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| UpdatedSouth Australian photographer Che Chorley has just completed a 5,000 kilometre winter odyssey with little more than his bicycle and a camera to share a unique view of Australia's coastline.
Topics: visual-art, photography, arts-and-entertainment, adelaide-5000, sa
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Students from Adelaide's northern suburbs are picking up tools and renovating homes in a bid to improve their job prospects in a region where unemployment is rampant.
Topics: education, secondary, secondary-schools, schools, unemployment, community-and-society, apprenticeships, elizabeth-east-5112, elizabeth-5112, adelaide-5000, sa
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Towns just north of Adelaide look back on the progress they have made since a ferocious bushfire started at Pinery and left a trail of damage and loss.
Topics: community-organisations, community-and-society, community-development, disasters-and-accidents, wasleys-5400, freeling-5372, stockport-5410, templers-5371, sa
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South Australia's Nick Xenophon Team MP Rebekha Sharkie announces she will not be supporting the Federal Government's proposed immigration laws, contrary to the party's leader.
Topics: states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, immigration, adelaide-5000, sa
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Some workers in Elizabeth are putting a positive spin on Holden's closure, saying it could be a "great opportunity to do something different".
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, local-government, elizabeth-5112, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedTwo women sexually abused while in the Australian Defence Force call on the Government to reinstate the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce, and describe how the poor handling of their assault cases heightened their suffering.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, federal-government, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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A regional showcase of military ideas and hardware in Adelaide provides a perfect platform for SA to sell its case to build the Army's new armoured vehicles.
Topics: army, defence-forces, manufacturing, industry, defence-industry, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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A study involving more than 2,700 sleep apnoea sufferers with cardiovascular disease confirms CPAP machines do not reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke, but significantly improve quality of life.
Topics: sleep-disorders, heart-disease, medical-research, adelaide-5000
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Incidents like the weekend's banana throwing at Indigenous AFL star Eddie Betts makes Aboriginal people feel like outcasts in their own country, a community leader says.
Topics: race-relations, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedTamara Barrow has both positive and negative stories to tell about the eight years she spent in foster care in South Australia.
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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Hundreds of US Marines trade their Darwin tropical base for the wet and cold of South Australia in a joint defence exercise with thousands of Australian soldiers.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, port-augusta-5700, whyalla-5600, port-pirie-5540, sa, darwin-0800, australia, nt
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| UpdatedBrian Martin QC, the man who stood down from royal commission into youth detention in the NT, stood down after days of media scrutiny. Look back at his career.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, youth, rights, nt, australia
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| UpdatedSouth Australia's Governor Hieu Van Le, who came to Australia as a refugee escaping war, is awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, immigration, refugees, adelaide-5000, sa
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At a loss about what to do with his life after his stepdaughter was murdered and his wife died from cancer, Ivan Phillips planned a motorbike ride around Australia to tackle the issue of domestic violence.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, domestic-violence, community-and-society, cancer, crime-prevention, sa, adelaide-5000, port-lincoln-5606
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Most of the 400 Australian soldiers preparing for tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan at the Edinburgh RAAF Base near Adelaide are men, but there are plans to change that in the future.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, adelaide-5000, edinburgh-5111, sa
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| UpdatedFederal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten gives qualified support for the establishment of a high-level nuclear waste dump in South Australia, if the economics and environmental safeguards stack up.
Topics: alternative-energy, nuclear-energy, nuclear-issues, royal-commissions, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedBlazeAid volunteers are helping farmers clean up and fence kilometres of land after the Pinery bushfire in South Australia.
Topics: fires, community-and-society, community-organisations, volunteers, freeling-5372, sa
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Defending Tour Down Under winner Rohan Dennis says he wants to be the first person to win the title back to back, and aims to break records at this year's event.
Topics: cycling, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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Lleyton Hewitt is mentoring the next generation of Australian tennis stars as he prepares to end his playing career at the Australian Open.
Topics: australian-open, tennis, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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Lleyton Hewitt is mentoring the next generation of Australian tennis stars as he prepares to end his playing career at the Australian Open.
Topics: tennis, melbourne-3000, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA massive inflatable glass sculpture of a flaming car inside a bottle will serve as a magical entree to lure unsuspecting passersby to explore next year's Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA farmer whose property was caught in the deadly South Australian bushfires is overwhelmed by the generosity of others in his time of need.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, templers-5371, sa, australia