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Back turn SA export trade falls $5bn short of ‘target’
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Multimillion-dollar homes hit Adelaide market
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Art of glass: Enjoy $7 million views at Woodside
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$108m bank heist with no gun or getaway
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‘Confused’ teen threatened to spread sex images
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Trump: The ‘assault’ on gun rights is over
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Young royals have thwarted the Republican bid
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Who’s got a woman problem now? It’s you, Malcolm
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Indonesians think we’re stupid. They’re right
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Minister had time for Tunarama but not Oakden visit
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Scuffle breaks out at young dad’s memorial
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A colossus of SA public life passes away
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Nike, adidas humiliate hoops star
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Uber is now legal in Adelaide — with one catch
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100 days of Trump — 1360 to go
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Adelaide United’s women soccer stars in red on pay
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Mansions at risk as SA tycoon sues his son
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Ex-prisoner backs woman’s firebombing case retrial
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Uber boycott call being ignored
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The queen who inspired Lucy to politics
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Lucy’s amazing journey from poverty to powerbroker
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Why knife attacks are rising in Adelaide
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Bold’s ziplining brides and emu dances
ZIPLINING brides and emu dances — The Bold And The Beautiful sends the world a quirky postcard of Australia in new episodes.
Cash-strapped Coroner keen to examine claims
CORONER Mark Johns is willing to reopen old cases of deaths at the Oakden aged care facility if families present new evidence and the State Government stumps up the cash needed.
Drug-trafficking mum weeps as she avoids jail
A TWICE-convicted, drug-trafficking mother facing separation from her two daughters has been resentenced to a suspended prison term — thanks, her lawyer says, to genuine rehabilitation.
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Jetstar is worst airline in the world
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Trengove: ‘I’d do it again’
PORT Adelaide ruckman Jackson Trengove insists he “did the right thing” in coming to the defence of a woman being harassed outside a Glenelg club at the weekend.
Pollies busy covering backsides over health bungles
SOUTH Australia is fast mastering the art of the non-inquiry or belated inquiry, with limited consequence for those who have done the wrong thing.
Celebrities eyeing politics — a risky choice
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Fury as cash-strapped Coroner can’t fund inquests
THREE major Coroner’s inquests have stalled, including one into a high-profile murder, and a fourth is at risk of not progressing due to chronic underfunding of the key office.
Aussies will ‘have first shot at subs work’
USING Australian companies first for work on the Future Submarines is a “no brainer” under the “unique” way they will be built, the new boss of DCNS says.
‘My romance with the Salt Creek kidnapper’
DATING the convicted Salt Creek kidnapper was a rosy honeymoon one minute and a “lion’s pit” of arrogance, anger and sudden violence the next, his former girlfriend says in a rare insight.
Coates fighting for job as review ordered
UPDATE: THE AOC will commission an independent review into workplace practices as denigrating emails by under-siege president John Coates emerged.
Anzac Day being betrayed by RSL itself
ANZAC Day is being betrayed, and not just by some smart-alec ABC presenter like Yassmin Abdel-Magied. And in Adelaide, Tuesday showed it is now betrayed by the RSL itself, writes Andrew Bolt.
10 years on, beach pub to get path to divert cyclists
THE argy-bargy about the need for a path to divert cyclists away from a beachside pub’s outdoor marquee has raged for years. Finally, it seems one is on its way – and it’s $475,000 cheaper than an earlier option.
SA company’s submarines bid is sunk
AN Adelaide company spent about $4 million getting ready to work on the submarines, only for the tender to go overseas.
I’m sorry — but it is the truth
AN Aboriginal activist has apologised for any offence she caused with a speech at the Adelaide Anzac Day service, referencing “slavery” and “invasion”, after it was condemned as “too political” by some veterans.
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