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Meet Harry Miller, a former Hawthorn footballer and now the coach of a junior Indigenous team set to make their mark at the AFL Diversity Championships in April.
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| UpdatedThe only Australian tall ship to sail in the 1988 First Fleet re-enactment voyage for Australia's bicentenary celebrates 30 years on the water.
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A statue of explorer Matthew Flinders, who named Port Lincoln in South Australia after his home province, has been unveiled.
Topics: history, community-and-society, port-lincoln-5606, sa
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Footage of the Great Australian Bight obtained by Sea Shepherd's The Steve Irwin.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, adelaide-5000, port-lincoln-5606
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As energy firm Chevron pushes ahead with plans to drill four exploration wells in the Great Australian Bight, an opposing alliance is preparing to release a documentary it says will initiate tourism in the region and persuade Australians to resist mining there.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, environment, environmental-impact, port-lincoln-5606, sa, adelaide-5000
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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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| UpdatedPolice say a man and two boys who allegedly killed eight emu chicks in a South Australian national park were cultivating cannabis at two locations in the park.
Topics: animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, port-lincoln-5606
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Less than six months since setting up in South Australia, Cameron of Tasmania has produced its first commercially viable oysters. The Tasmanian based hatchery set up just out of Port Lincoln following the outbreak of POMS in Tasmania. General manager Ben Cameron says they have been able to start supplying SA growers almost straight away.
Topics: rural, fishing-aquaculture, port-lincoln-5606
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A Tasmanian hatchery produces the first commercially viable spat in Port Lincoln.
Topics: rural, fishing-aquaculture, port-lincoln-5606
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An increase in cases of Q fever in South Australia prompts a reminder about vaccination.
Topics: livestock, rural, health, port-lincoln-5606
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will meet with Port Lincoln business leaders to discuss energy security in the wake of the September blackout, and attend the annual Tunarama festival fish toss.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, environment, alternative-energy, federal-government, rural, port-lincoln-5606, sa
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Mark and Janie Butterworth have been brewing craft beer using local Eyre Peninsula produce. They want to keep it all as local as possible and talk about the process of making a craft beer.
Topics: rural, rural-tourism, alcohol, port-lincoln-5606
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Two Port Lincoln beer brewers aim to be as local as possible as they jump on board the popular craft beer train.
Topics: rural, grain, rural-tourism, alcohol, port-lincoln-5606
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A former police superintendent speaks publicly for the first time about his role in the disposal of 1,300 tonnes of rotting pilchards following a major fire.
Topics: fires, human-interest, port-lincoln-5606, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAdelaide is preparing for its hottest Christmas Day in more than 70 years as heatwave conditions hit parts of South Australia.
Topics: weather, adelaide-5000, leigh-creek-5731, hawker-5434, port-augusta-5700, port-lincoln-5606, robe-5276, sa
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Coordinator of the Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishery Greg Palmer says the pre-Christmas run exceeded expectations after the fleet returned four days early with 425 tonnes of prawns.
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| UpdatedThe Spencer Gulf Prawn Fishing fleet returns from their December fish in record time, ensuring there will be plenty of fresh South Australian prawns on tables for Christmas.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, christmas, port-lincoln-5606
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Police find cannabis plants in a conservation park near Port Lincoln during a drug operation which results in four people being charged.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, port-lincoln-5606, sa
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| UpdatedPhotographs of weather phenomena around Australia, some of them capturing rare events, have been chosen for the 2017 Australian Weather Calendar.
Topics: weather, photography, binda-2583, orange-2800, canberra-2600, derby-6728, longreach-4730, bencubbin-6477, alice-springs-0870, antarctica, port-lincoln-5606, st-marys-7215, lord-howe-island-2898, barrow-island-6712
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More than 250 people are under surveillance as potential arsonists as South Australia enters its bushfire danger season.
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