Michael Owen

SA Bureau Chief

Adelaide

Michael Owen is the Adelaide Bureau Chief with The Australian. He has worked for major metropolitan and national newspapers in the UK (Daily Telegraph and Mail on Sunday), the US (San Jose Mercury News group in the San Francisco Bay area) and Australia (The Advertiser, Sunday Mail) in all key newsroom roles from reporter to chief of staff and sub editor to section editor. He has won a string of awards for his reporting and been highly commended in the News Awards for editorial innovation.

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‘Carly’s Law’ to foil predators

26/10/2009: SA murder victim Carly Ryan as student in year 9 school photograph provided to police by Carly's mother who has requested that for any future media regarding the death of her daughter, that the attached photo be used and not the previous 'gothic' style photograph. This is a request on behalf of Carly's mum and it is understood that it is at the discretion of the media to cease using the previous photo and use the attached photo 07 Sep 2007.

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENThe mum of a girl murdered by an online predator has finally seen a law passed to jail pedophiles who groom children.

Revamp as Posco wins Arrium

A steel worker is seen grinding a piece of railway track at Arrium steelwork facilities in Whyalla, Thursday, May 4, 2017. Mining giant Adani announced today it had signed a deal with Arrium's Whyalla steelworks to buy steel for a railway line for the proposed Carmichael mine project. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

0:00 AMPAUL GARVEY, MICHAEL OWENKorean steelmaker Posco promises a $1.4 billion overhaul that should give Whyalla a future.

Carly’s law predator crackdown

16:35 PMMICHAEL OWENThe bill, named after a teenage girl murdered a decade ago, has been passed in federal parliament.

States most at blackout risk

10:57 AMMichael OwenA new report says power shortages could occur if limits on generation coincide with peak demand.

Radical links to trigger bail ban

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENPeople charged with any crime will automatically be denied bail in South Australia if they have links to terrorism.

Senate to probe Oakden scandal

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENA Senate inquiry will be launched into Adelaide’s state-run Oakden nursing home.

$649m in aged care after Oakden

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENAn extra $649m a year will be spent by the government to create almost 10,000 spaces in aged-care facilities.

Woman ‘pledged allegiance’ to IS

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENA Somali-born Muslim woman from Adelaide has been charged with being a member of terror group Islamic State

SA woman ‘a member of IS’

14:58 PMMICHAEL OWENA South Australian woman of Somali origin has been charged with being a member of the terrorist organisation.

Labor ‘tries to block scrutiny’

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENA Senate order for production of documents related to Adelaide’s Oakden nursing home has been opposed by federal Labor.

Salt Creek cops’ ‘life sentence’

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENThe man hailed as a hero of the backpacker attacks says police who refused to help must live with their choice.

‘Curb aged seclusion, restraint’

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENThe National Mental Health Commission has called for greater efforts to eliminate the use of seclusion and restraint.

Labor to ‘refresh’ Safe Schools

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENA state-based version of the axed federal Safe Schools program will be created by the Weatherill Labor government.

ACCC approves bulk-buy power

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENBig electricity users in SA have won final regulatory approval to buy power in bulk to avoid high prices.

New claims quicken home closure

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENAnother abuse allegation at Adelaide’s Oakden nursing home has prompted the SA government to speed up its closure.

Power plan has impact on prices

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENA $550m ‘self-sufficient’ SA energy plan could ‘undermine the economics’ of building a new interconnector with NSW.

Police probe Oakden abuse case

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENA new case of abuse at Adelaide’s state-run Oakden nursing home last week has been referred to police.

Coroner blasts officials on deaths

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENThe South Australian coroner has slammed SA Health for failing to properly report the deaths of two stroke patients.

Coroner’s fury at stroke deaths

14:38 PMMICHAEL OWENSouth Australia’s Coroner slams health department for not properly reporting two stroke deaths at Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Deaths as surgeons on leave

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENTwo patients have died at Adelaide’s flagship trauma hospital after both its specialist stroke surgeons were on leave.

‘Shroud of secrecy’ on Oakden

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENAngry relatives of Oakden residents have accused the Weatherill government of ‘patting them on the head’.

ExclusiveAction vowed on Oakden failure

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWENThe head of a new review into federal agencies overseeing aged-care centres has vowed to unearth failings.

ExclusiveAged homes run under sanctions

0:00 AMMICHAEL OWEN, MEREDITH BOOTHData from the federal Department of Health and Ageing reveals an alarming situation for nursing home residents.

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