Alina Eacott is a reporter and presenter with the ABC News in South Australia. She began in Renmark in 2009 before moving to Adelaide in 2010. Her work includes covering health stories and presenting for radio and television news.
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A bureaucratic blunder by the SA Health Department may have impacted more than a dozen criminal cases involving suspected child abuse victims.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, courts-and-trials, health-policy, states-and-territories, state-parliament, sa, adelaide-5000
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The image of a girl in wheat fields at sunset adorning the silos of a regional South Australian town, and celebrating the local farming heritage, is expected to provide an economic boost.
Topics: rural-tourism, rural, street-art, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, offbeat, kimba-5641, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedRecorded interviews with young children suspected to be victims of sexual or physical abuse are not able to be used as evidence in criminal trials because of a major bungle by the SA Health Department.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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An Adelaide start-up that has created a foldable and waterproof splint for fractured bones strikes a distribution deal in South Australia and is now looking to go global.
Topics: medical-procedures, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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Flinders University is preparing for its World Solar Challenge debut, unveiling its ambitious family-style design for the upcoming epic race.
Topics: solar-energy, alternative-energy, environment, road-transport, science-and-technology, sa, adelaide-5000
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Older Australians are generally healthier and more active than their peers more than 25 years ago, but their level of fitness has decreased, new research shows.
Topics: exercise-and-fitness, health, older-people, flinders-university-5042, adelaide-5000, sa
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Finding work after being released from jail can be tough, but a program between South Australian businesses and the prison system is trying to change that.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA national two-day police operation targeting drugs in the mail uncovers a "disturbing and alarming array" of illicit substances hidden in foods, toys and machine parts.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, sa, nsw, qld, wa, vic, tas, australia, act, nt
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| UpdatedThe Adelaide Thunderbirds have lost their captain Erin Bell, who has announced she's moving to the Collingwood Magpies in Melbourne.
Topics: netball, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, collingwood-3066, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe South Australian Government's proposed new bank tax, announced in today's budget, is slammed as an "outrageous cash grab" by the Australian Bankers' Association.
Topics: budget, government-and-politics, parliament, states-and-territories, state-parliament, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe small community of Kangaroo Island is trying to find the best way to deal with the island's growing popularity after more than 200,000 people visited the island off the South Australian coast last year.
Topics: tourism, industry, travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, penneshaw-5222, kingscote-5223, sa, glenelg-5045
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The Kangaroo Island Council and SA Power Networks [SAPN] are at loggerheads over the replacement of the island's ageing power infrastructure.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, local-government, kingscote-5223, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAdelaide Thunderbirds star Renae Ingles is retiring from professional netball and will move to the United States to be with her basketballer husband Joe Ingles and their 10-month-old twins.
Topics: netball, sport, adelaide-5000, sa
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South Australian police will increase their presence in Mount Gambier after witnesses to a violent brawl, which saw a 32-year-old man killed and a teenager charged with his murder, are threatened on social media.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, mount-gambier-5290, sa
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| UpdatedA 32-year-old man is fighting for his life and a 26-year-old man is in a serious condition after a large brawl broke out in Mount Gambier in South Australia's south-east last night.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, mount-gambier-5290, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedStaffing levels at the Royal Adelaide Hospital are questioned by the SA Opposition after it was revealed the hospital's only two specialist stroke surgeons were on holidays at the same time.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, states-and-territories, health-policy, adelaide-5000
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The construction union says it is worried the structural integrity of a number of major projects across Adelaide could be compromised after contaminated cement was used following an issue at Adelaide Brighton Cement.
Topics: building-and-construction, industry, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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Cyclists are facing more of a mental challenge than a physical one, organisers say, as they race across the Nullarbor on a gruelling 5,500-km route from Fremantle to Sydney.
Topics: human-interest, community-organisations, community-and-society, lifestyle-and-leisure, lifestyle, cycling, sport, sa, wa, ceduna-5690, kalgoorlie-6430, nsw, australia
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A decade-long study finds that taking fish oil supplements during pregnancy provides no benefit to the brain development of babies, despite some companies marketing them to women.
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, child-health-and-behaviour, infant-health, adelaide-5000, sa
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The South Australian Labor Party abandons its appeal against the state's new electoral boundaries fearing its chances were "pessimistic".
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, liberals, political-parties, alp, electoral-system, sa, adelaide-5000
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Home detention bail is granted to a man charged over a two-year-old boy's death in an alleged hit-run at Dover Gardens in Adelaide.
Topics: courts-and-trials, traffic-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, dover-gardens-5048, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAs the Adelaide Festival Centre undergoes a major upgrade, more than four decades after it first opened, an economic study paints a bright picture of its performance and its value to South Australians.
Topics: community-and-society, arts-and-entertainment, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe South Australian Liberal Party finds itself at odds with the Federal Government over unconventional gas extraction, after federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg says he would like to see "all moratoriums" lifted during a visit to the state.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, oil-and-gas, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedHundreds of air conditioning units across buildings in Adelaide's CBD and inner-city suburbs are being checked, after a spate of legionnaires' disease cases in the past week.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, health, infectious-diseases-other, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA security guard at Adelaide Oval becomes an internet sensation after taking a classic catch during a Big Bash League game between the Adelaide Strikers and the Brisbane Heat.
Topics: twenty20, cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, brisbane-4000, qld, australia