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Loukas Founten
Loukas Founten is a reporter with ABC News in South Australia and reports on news and sport.
Without guards boxers 'more protective of their head'
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At this week's boxing championships in Adelaide, elite men will compete without headgear after an exemption was granted under state law, while the sport's world governing body awaits more evidence about the prevalence of concussion.
Topics: boxing, sport, occupational-health-and-safety, health, adelaide-5000, sa
Scientists want fish remains for study of King George whiting stocks
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Save those filleted remains from King George whiting, as scientists are keen to study them to help protect South Australian spawning areas.
Topics: environmental-management, environment, lifestyle-and-leisure, fishing-aquaculture, fish, animal-science, science-and-technology, rural, research-organisations, research, adelaide-5000, sa, whyalla-5600, port-pirie-5540, port-lincoln-5606, mount-gambier-5290
Football's national competition forced other sports to 'wake up'
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Often described as a minority sport, the creation of the first national football league was ambitious. Forty years on from the birth of the league, its achievement lives on, for the most part, only in people's memories.
Topics: soccer, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, canberra-2600, act, australia
Redbacks look to old hands, wise heads for Shield success
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For two of SA's senior batsmen, the upcoming Sheffield Shield final against Victoria will be especially sweet after both missed last year's decider.
Topics: cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, vic
Thunder wins backing for return to national wheelchair basketball league
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A Paralympic swimmer-turned-basketballer helped talk donors into backing the Adelaide Thunder's return to a national basketball competition.
Topics: basketball, sport, disabilities, adelaide-5000, sa
Wheat bag warning issued after two women hurt in blaze
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After two women were injured in an Adelaide house fire, authorities warn of the risks from wheat bags, which people often use to relieve their aches and pains.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, health, smithfield-5114, sa
LGBTIQ supporter groups form across AFL after pride game
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Gay and lesbian AFL fans push for an annual Pride Round after last year's game between St Kilda and Sydney prompted the formation of LGBTIQ supporter groups, which hope to send messages about inclusion by standing out.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, australia, sa, adelaide-5000
Council 'drowning' in Adelaide Aquatic Centre debt
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Adelaide City Council might need to "put a gun" to the State Government's head for help to keep the Adelaide Aquatic Centre afloat, according to one local councillor.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, north-adelaide-5006, adelaide-5000, sa
Poverty hurts when you know how others live, Gillard tells women's breakfast
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The word's poorest are more aware of their poverty because of the use of new technology and globalisation, former prime minister Julia Gillard has said.
Topics: education, access-to-education, gillard-julia, poverty, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa, malawi
Alleged Salt Creek kidnapper used car to 'mow down' victim, court hears
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A 60-year-old man accused of kidnapping two female backpackers and driving them to a remote South Australian beach stripped one naked with a knife and attacked the other with a hammer, an Adelaide court hears at the start of his trial.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, sa, adelaide-5000, germany, brazil
Who is Riley McGree?
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Without a full professional season under his belt, Adelaide United's Riley McGree has made the Socceroos 30-man squad. What makes the teen tick?
Topics: socceroos, soccer, a-league, sport, adelaide-5000, sa
Cricket Australia investment sees rise in all-girl teams, competitions
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Thanks to a $4 million investment by Cricket Australia over four years, more and more girls are taking up the game — and for the first time are able to play only with and against other girls.
Topics: cricket, sport, sa, adelaide-5000, port-pirie-5540
Horvat blasts undisciplined Melbourne City and Fornaroli
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Former Socceroo Steve Horvat slams Melbourne City's decision to appoint Bruno Fornaroli as captain this season and decries the lack of discipline and leadership in the A-League club.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
Hemp cultivation for industrial use one step closer in SA
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A Greens plan to legalise hemp cultivation for industrial use in South Australia will now have backing from the Labor Government, provided slight amendments are made to the bill.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, greens, agricultural-crops, adelaide-5000, sa
Protest forms at Glenside Hospital over plans to fell trees
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About 100 people protest outside Glenside Hospital against plans to remove 83 trees as part of a new housing development in Adelaide's inner-south-east.
Topics: environment, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, glenside-5065, adelaide-5000, sa
Blackouts worry Adelaide family of teen on breathing machine
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A South Australian teenager who needs a machine to help him breathe has more reason than many to worry about power blackouts, after brief rolling outages earlier in the week cut power to thousands of homes.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, health, electricity-energy-and-utilities, adelaide-5000, sa
Boxing Federation plays down doctor quitting during Green-Mundine bout
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A doctor who quit his role in anger during the fight between Danny Green and Anthony Mundine was not the official medic for the Adelaide bout, the National Boxing Federation says, as Mundine's agent confirms plans to appeal against the decision to award the fight to Green.
Topics: boxing, sport, occupational-health-and-safety, health, adelaide-5000, sa
Ringside doctor quit during Green-Mundine fight
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Lou Lewis, one of the doctors involved in the highly anticipated re-match between boxers Anthony Mundine and Danny Green, quit after Green was concussed in the first round but the bout was allowed to go another nine rounds.
Topics: boxing, sport, doctors-and-medical-professionals, occupational-health-and-safety, health, adelaide-5000, sa
Former DPP Stephen Pallaras lashes out at SA Government
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South Australia's former Director of Public Prosecutions launches an extraordinary tirade against his ex-employer, claiming the State Government has "stuffed up virtually everything it has touched" and "let down future generations".
Topics: states-and-territories, judges-and-legal-profession, adelaide-5000, sa
Adelaide Crows sign with new apparel provider following WRS collapse
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The Adelaide Football Club is the latest in the AFL to find a new apparel provider following uncertainty surrounding supplier BLK, whose parent company, World Rugby Specialists, went into administration.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, adelaide-5000, sa
The journey of Adelaide-born footballer Andrew Marveggio
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Adelaide footballer Andrew Marveggio's journey may have taken him to Germany to play for VfV Hildesheim but he still harbourers dreams to play for the Socceroos.
Topics: soccer, sport, human-interest, sa, adelaide-5000
Significant soils from SA's military past to feature at Canberra war memorial
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Soils trampled by thousands of troops that left to fight in World War One from South Australia will feature in a new memorial garden project at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Topics: veterans, history, world-war-1, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa, canberra-2600
Second teen to plead guilty over Southern Expressway fatal crash
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A 17-year-old boy will plead guilty to charges arising from a fiery high-speed fatal crash on Adelaide's Southern Expressway, the Youth Court hears, after a 15-year-old earlier admitted to dangerous and unlicensed driving.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, traffic-offences, road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, bedford-park-5042, adelaide-5000, sa
Man accused of attacking own mother has previously killed, SA court told
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A man facing court for attacking his mother with a hammer previously killed an elderly woman in a similar attack, an Adelaide judge hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, assault, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
SA mental health system 'lamentable' to allow hospital suicide: coroner
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A coroner blames the "lamentable state" of South Australia's mental health system for a Queensland man's death at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Topics: courts-and-trials, death, mental-health, suicide, adelaide-5000, sa, cairns-4870
