Angelique Donnellan is a political reporter for ABC News in South Australia. She was nominated for a Walkley award for breaking coverage of the SA Government's leadership transition from Mike Rann to Jay Weatherill. The story took out 'Scoop of the Year' and two other prizes at the SA Press Club Awards and 'Best Radio News Report' at the SA Media Awards. Angelique reports for radio, TV and online and has covered two state elections and several budgets. She started her career with the ABC in Port Pirie, with stints in Broken Hill and Mount Gambier.
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The Australian Taxation Office is ordered to refund more than $1 million it took from failed South Australian company Penrice, after being sued by the company's liquidators.
Topics: tax, government-and-politics, company-news, osborne-5017, adelaide-5000, sa
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Some public sector radiologists are threatening to cut back their services, saying their skills are not being recognised by SA health authorities.
Topics: unions, government-and-politics, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, woodville-5011, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA Labor Party preselection fight looms for the seat of Florey in Adelaide, as Health Minister Jack Snelling tells long-serving MP Frances Bedford he will nominate in her seat.
Topics: states-and-territories, electoral-system, elections, government-and-politics, ingle-farm-5098, modbury-5092, adelaide-5000, sa
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An Adelaide-based company that unwittingly constructed portable buildings using asbestos-contaminated materials from China is fighting a SafeWork NSW order to remove the deadly substance from a wind farm, south-west of Sydney.
Topics: courts-and-trials, occupational-health-and-safety, asbestos, unions, health, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, taralga-2580, nsw, sa, sydney-2000, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedSouth Australian television news reporter and former Labor government staff member Jayne Stinson is to run for ALP preselection in the state seat of Badcoe.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, alp, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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Families SA deputy chief executive Etienne Scheepers loses his job after being told there is no place for him in SA's new Child Protection Department.
Topics: states-and-territories, child-abuse, child-care, family-and-children, law-crime-and-justice, sa, adelaide-5000
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South Australia Opposition Leader Steven Marshall promotes two young guns, David Speirs and Stephan Knoll, to the frontbench in preparation for next year's election.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA new psychometric testing regime for South Australia's child protection workers is in limbo, with the public sector union lodging a dispute in the Industrial Relations Commission.
Topics: child-abuse, industrial-relations, community-and-society, sa, australia
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With a little more than a year until the next South Australia election, we take a look at what ramifications the dispute over new state electoral boundaries could have on the 2018 poll.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, sa
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The Environmental Protection Authority slaps the owner of the Port Augusta power station with a formal notice requiring it to stop ash dust blowing over the city.
Topics: land-pollution, pollution, air-pollution, environment, health, respiratory-diseases, environmental-health, port-augusta-5700, sa
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Residents wearing face masks heckle SA's Environment Minister, demanding an end to a dust problem emanating from Port Augusta's former power station.
Topics: land-pollution, air-pollution, respiratory-diseases, health, pollution, environmental-health, environment, port-augusta-5700, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedDust blowing across Port Augusta from the local former coal-fired power station has "toxic potential", an SA Health assessment finds.
Topics: pollution, environment, air-pollution, health, port-augusta-5700, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThe advice of a so-called independent expert who dismissed building faults at the new RAH is declared null and void by the Supreme Court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, healthcare-facilities, states-and-territories, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedAn unprecedented legal challenge is launched by the Labor Party against South Australia's redrawn state electoral boundaries.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, electoral-system, elections, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedDelays in the opening of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital will help boost the South Australian Government's budget surplus by a predicted $46 million, according to the mid-year budget review released by the Government which shows a total surplus of $300 million.
Topics: government-and-politics, budget, adelaide-5000
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Sensitive personal information in health and child protection could be put at risk if the supply of South Australian Government computers is outsourced, the public sector union warns.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, computers-and-technology, sa
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Radiology services at Adelaide's Lyell McEwin Hospital are being outsourced after the South Australian Government was unable to hire more public sector staff and work piled up.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, elizabeth-5112, adelaide-5000, sa
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Radiology services were in disarray after a medical software failure in South Australia's major hospital's this week, a health union says.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, government-and-politics, unions, health-policy, adelaide-5000, sa
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A plan to manage patient transition to the New Royal Adelaide Hospital by using other hospitals such as the Repat is a "high-risk" strategy that could cause a "train wreck", the State Opposition says.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAn X-ray for a child, who was suspected of potential non-accidental injuries, was not examined for more than a month at Adelaide's Flinders Medical Centre, a whistleblower claims.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, doctors-and-medical-professionals, child-abuse, community-and-society, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA crucial safety system that should have been used to report the under-dosing of chemotherapy drugs at two Adelaide hospital is rarely used by medical staff, SA Health report finds.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA high-profile critic of the SA Government's Transforming Health changes is suspended from duty at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, amid an investigation into his conduct.
Topics: health, health-policy, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa
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The new Royal Adelaide Hospital is safe and South Australians will be proud of its medical facilities, says the builder of the yet-to-open health project.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedPhotographs tendered to the Supreme Court provide the first glimpse of alleged building defects at the centre of a bitter legal row over the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, healthcare-facilities, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe Supreme Court inspects alleged defects at the New Royal Adelaide Hospital, as the State Government refuses to back down on a push for compensation from the builders involved.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health-policy, health, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa