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Controversial stand-up comedian Ivor Dembina, who is known for his outspoken views on politics and is appearing at Adelaide's Fringe festival, defends the right to joke about sensitive subjects.
Topics: comedy-humour, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, carnivals-and-festivals, sa, adelaide-5000
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For Aboriginal teenager Tarni Rigney, who is about to start a teaching degree, the education outcomes for Indigenous Australians is distressing.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, education, university-of-south-australia-5000, adelaide-5000, sa
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Adelaide's Fringe Festival Parade attracted tens of thousands of people to the city.
Topics: community-and-society, arts-and-entertainment, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThe Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, tells a royal commission the response by Catholic Church leaders to allegations of child sexual abuse amounted to "criminal negligence".
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000, adelaide-5000, perth-7300
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They nail items into their heads, swallow swords and juggle chainsaws, but who are the real people behind these freak show acts at the Adelaide Fringe?
Topics: performance-art, offbeat, carnivals-and-festivals, community-and-multicultural-festivals, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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A man facing serious assault charges is on the run from police after the courts allowed him to attend the Mundine-Green boxing match at Adelaide Oval despite his strict bail conditions, the Corrections Minister says.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedHundreds of workers walk off the job at Adelaide shipbuilder ASC over an ongoing enterprise bargaining dispute that has spanned two years.
Topics: unions, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, manufacturing, industry, osborne-5017, adelaide-5000, sa
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Five of Australia's Catholic archbishops will give evidence today in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. This is who they are, what they've said and their relationship to Cardinal George Pell.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, australia, sydney-2000, perth-6000, adelaide-5000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000
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Gamba Osaka inflicts an embarrassing 3-0 loss on Adelaide United in the Asian Champions League, but Reds coach Guillermo Amor is looking for the positives.
Topics: sport, soccer, a-league, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, japan
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Legspinner Adam Zampa and allrounder James Faulkner both claim three wickets as Australia avoids a T20 series whitewash with a 41-run triumph against Sri Lanka.
Topics: twenty20, cricket, sport, adelaide-5000
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Follow all the stats and commentary from the third and final Twenty20 between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval in our live scorecentre.
Topics: twenty20, cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, sri-lanka
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Planned changes to the South Australian Ambulance Service will not cost jobs, chief executive Jason Killens promises.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, health-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, regional, mount-gambier-5290, adelaide-5000, port-pirie-5540, port-augusta-5700, port-lincoln-5606, renmark-5341
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Australia's Ross River virus has the potential to become a global epidemic, similar to the Zika virus, researchers say.
Topics: ross-river-fever, diseases-and-disorders, health, canberra-2600, adelaide-5000, australian-national-university-0200, adelaide-university-5005, sa, act
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A union questions how psychological testing of current child protection workers in South Australia will be done and what will happen to any staff who fail.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, children, family-and-children, child-abuse, community-and-society, child-health-and-behaviour, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedFor the people of Thebarton, the closure of Coca-Cola's bottling plant in Adelaide will be like having "your heart ripped out", a local historian says, who remembers touring the newly opened factory in 1951 as a child.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, company-news, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, sa
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South Australian cancer patients who were given incorrect frequencies in doses of a chemotherapy drug may have had their treatment outcomes compromised, a haematology expert tells a coronial inquest.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, healthcare-facilities, health, cancer, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAustralia crashes to its lowest women's Twenty20 total in a humiliating 47-run loss to New Zealand at Adelaide Oval on Wednesday.
Topics: twenty20, cricket, sport, adelaide-5000
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An orangutan from Adelaide Zoo, who died after giving birth to a stillborn infant, will live on through a memorial guard post to be built in South-East Asia which will be staffed to help protect wild apes.
Topics: animals, human-interest, zoos, community-and-society, zoology, adelaide-5000, sa
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Coca-Cola workers in Adelaide are in shock after the company announced it would close its South Australian manufacturing facilities in 2019.
Topics: company-news, community-and-society, unemployment, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, richlands-4077
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Food and drink prices at Adelaide Oval remain at a "ridiculous" level and a recent reduction of between 10 to 30 cents is an insult, punters say, ahead of the international T20 match tonight.
Topics: community-and-society, alcohol, lifestyle-and-leisure, food-and-cooking, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedPolice have seized cars, computers, phones, and loose change out of the purses of people suspected of working in the sex industry, a South Australian parliamentary committee hears.
Topics: community-and-society, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA Coca-Cola employee in Adelaide says workers did not expect the company to close its Thebarton manufacturing facility, and that he fears his reemployment prospects.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, company-news, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, richlands-4077, sa
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Workers at Adelaide's Coca-Cola production factory have had their shifts cancelled and a meeting has been called for Wednesday morning leaving about 150 jobs in doubt, the union says.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, company-news, thebarton-5031, adelaide-5000, sa
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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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| UpdatedThe company behind a $100-million solar plant with battery storage says its project could solve South Australia's energy woes as the Federal Government announces a $445,000 investment into a pumped hydro-station for the state.
Topics: solar-energy, alternative-energy, environment, states-and-territories, state-parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, hydro-energy, geothermal-energy, port-augusta-5700, adelaide-5000, sa