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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
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Ride-booking company Uber is to be fully accredited in South Australia, and new laws are to be introduced to punish unaccredited services.
Topics: regulation, parliament, state-parliament, government-and-politics, road-transport, industry, sa, australia
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South Australia's Attorney-General struggles to explain why his party rejected reforms to anti-secrecy laws intended to improve public access to information.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, adelaide-5000, sa
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More people apply for compensation under South Australia's Stolen Generations Reparation Scheme than expected, with one survivor saying the money is "nothing more than a bonus to move on".
Topics: states-and-territories, parliament, government-and-politics, stolen-generations, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sa
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| UpdatedMany stories about children in state care are negative ones. A group of brave young people are breaking the stereotype to speak out about the stigma attached to their situation that was not of their making.
Topics: children, family-and-children, community-and-society, states-and-territories, suicide, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedThe Sheffield Shield final brings an end to another low-key season in the background of the summer of cricket.
Topics: cricket, sport, alice-springs-0870, nt, vic, sa, australia
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| UpdatedVictoria claims the Sheffield Shield for the third straight season, as the final in Alice Springs ends in a draw.
Topics: cricket, sport, alice-springs-0870, nt, sa, vic, australia
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Financially troubled fundraising group Telethon SA secures an 11th hour lifeline from a private building company and Renewal SA to continue its charity work.
Topics: community-and-society, charities, charities-and-community-organisations, sa
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| UpdatedAuthorities will be able to prosecute those lying about their age to minors online and intervene before a predator can act under new legislation introduced by the Federal Government.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, federal-parliament, parliament, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedA $1 billion battery and solar farm will be built at Morgan in South Australia's Riverland by year's end in a project the proponents describe as "the world's biggest".
Topics: alternative-energy, government-and-politics, federal-government, port-augusta-5700, sa
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A Riverland vineyard owner discovers several wine grape rows close to being harvested slashed and damaged in an apparent attack.
Topics: rural, agricultural-crops, crime, barmera-5345, sa
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| UpdatedAustralia's cave-dwelling bat population could be seriously affected if the fast-spreading white-nose syndrome is unwittingly introduced.
Topics: mammals, science-and-technology, animal-science, lifestyle-and-leisure, environment, environmental-impact, human-interest, veterinary-medicine, animals, naracoorte-5271, sa, sydney-2000, glencoe-5291
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| UpdatedAlinta Energy offered to give the Port Augusta coal-fired power station to the South Australian Government but it was rejected because the state would have got "a coal mine that had no coal" and an asset that was losing hundreds of millions of dollars.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, port-augusta-5700, adelaide-5000, sa
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Police drop murder charges against three men saying they believe allegations against them were false and charge another man over the death of a 39-year-old at Penfield Gardens earlier this month.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, penfield-5121, adelaide-5000, sa
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Half-centuries from Aaron Finch and Dan Christian help Victoria to a massive 454-run lead in the Sheffield Shield final against South Australia in Alice Springs.
Topics: cricket, sport, alice-springs-0870, vic, sa
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Serial child sex offender Mark Trevor Marshall tries to justify his behaviour and says he doesn't understand why he is "suddenly a big risk to society" while arguing for his release from prison.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAs Victoria's Hazelwood power station is turned off, political reporter Nick Harmsen looks at what it will mean for South Australia's electricity supply and prices.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, sa
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The key to saving and improving lives is changing how we talk, think and act on mental health issues, says former prime minister and newly appointed Beyond Blue chair, Julia Gillard.
Topics: mental-health, health, gillard-julia, adelaide-5000, sa
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A group of cyclists will set off on their seventh 1,000km ride this weekend, hoping to pass $2 million in fundraising for cancer patients.
Topics: cycling, cancer, volunteers, lifestyle-and-leisure, health, healthcare-facilities, community-and-society, charities, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSouth Australia's Pelican Point power station will be returned to its full available capacity of 479 megawatts within the next three months, its owner ENGIE says.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedCrows midfielder Ebony Marinoff has been working as a deli assistant at her local supermarket, but jokes she can now quit her day job after winning the AFL Women's Rising Star award.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, women, melbourne-3000, vic, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAFLW best and fairest winner Erin Phillips is yet to decide whether she will try to be part of the Australian Opals' basketball campaign for the Tokyo Olympics.
Topics: australian-football-league, basketball, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedArson is blamed for a big fire at Adelaide's last remaining drive-in theatre at Gepps Cross.
Topics: arson, crime, law-crime-and-justice, industrial-fires, fires, disasters-and-accidents, gepps-cross-5094, ottoway-5013, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedNative bird species in South Australia's national parks are declining at an alarming rate — continuing a decades-long trend.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, birds, animal-science, sa
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More staff are being employed to try to bring embattled Makk and McLeay Nursing Home in Adelaide's north-east up to scratch after it failed accreditation.
Topics: mental-health, health, healthcare-facilities, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, oakden-5086, adelaide-5000, sa