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[Link] Man arrested after allegedly throwing keg through restaurant window and punching police
Read: 3/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Officers turned up to the Original Pancake Kitchen in Gilbert Place about 3am after reports a man had smashed the front window of the restaurant with a keg, causing significant damage. Pieces of glass hit customers inside the restaurant but none of them was injured.
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[Link] Police officer who assaulted teenager spared jall because of own trauma at work
Read: 1/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Andrew Allan Jaunay was handed a three-month suspended sentence with a year-long good behaviour bond for the 2013 assault of then-17-year-old Matthew Odgers. Jaunay was with other police officers when they stopped and searched Mr Odgers in a Whyalla Stuart street in October of that year.
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[Link] Half of $4m Rundle Mall management budget spent on office, salaries
Read: 6/2/2022 indaily.com.au
The review, undertaken by consultant KPMG, found that of the $4.33 million that was spent by Rundle Mall management last financial year, $2.03 million covered administration costs – up from $1.83 million the year before.
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[Link] Ex-soldier charged with wife's murder granted home detention bail
Read: 31/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
WARNING: This story contains content that some people may find distressing. Antony Ogar, 58, is accused of murdering 37-year-old Cherry Gerente Ogar at their Port Hughes home last July.
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[Link] SA paramedics tell parliamentary inquiry shortages leading to deaths and unnecessary suffering
Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
South Australian paramedics say a shortage of crews is leading to deaths and unnecessary suffering.
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[Link] Park lands hub helps Aboriginal rough sleepers return to Country
Read: 9/12/2021 indaily.com.au
Puti on Kaurna Yerta in the southern park lands. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDailySince opening in October, the Puti on Kaurna Yerta hub has helped 75 Aboriginal people – approximately half of whom came from the Northern Territory – to travel from Adelaide back to Country.
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[Link] Operation Ironside nets 18 more suspects as police seize guns and drugs
Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Another 18 men have been arrested in South Australia as part of ongoing Operation Ironside investigations, including two who have been charged with false imprisonment.
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[Link] Ivermectin could save rare Australian sea lion from deadly parasite
Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Ivermectin has gained notoriety as an unproven prophylactic and therapy for COVID-19, but it has traditionally been used in human and veterinary medicine for parasitic infections. Hookworm contributes to up to 40 per cent of sea lion pup deaths.
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[Link] 'He has been significantly punished': Prison escape lands man in solitary confinement for a year, court hears
Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Jason Gregory Burdon has pleaded guilty to escaping from the maximum security prison's kitchen area in December last year, using items of clothing as a rope to climb out of a metal louvre window.
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[Link] Plans unveiled for largest road infrastructure project in SA's history
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The South Australian Government has released the final design of the state's biggest infrastructure project for community feedback. The plans show the northern section of the Torrens to Darlington road project, from the River Torrens to Anzac Highway, for the first time.
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[Link] SA Health tells hospitals to take in patients quickly to avoid ramping in 'gaslighting' move
Read: 26/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Health has issued a direction ordering the state's hospitals to ensure no ambulance transfers exceed one hour. The health system has been dealing with an ongoing ramping crisis with some patients spending five hours in the back of an ambulance earlier this week.
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[Link] 'Implausible' that father tripped and fell on daughter while sweeping floor
Read: 23/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide man has been found guilty of recklessly causing harm to his newborn baby by violently shaking her. WARNING: This story contains graphic content that readers may find distressing.
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[Link] 'Inheriting my father's enemies': The pros and cons of having a famous parent
Read: 21/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
When Georgina Downer walked into a pub just outside of Adelaide in 2018, she was ready for the rough and tumble of a campaign event. Ms Downer was running as the Liberal candidate in the Mayo by-election and thought she was across all the issues that mattered to her potential constituents.
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[Link] Move to make Christmas Day a public holiday in SA passes Lower House but unlikely to proceed
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
South Australia's Lower House of parliament has passed legislation to make Christmas Day a public holiday, but with a major amendment that could scuttle any chance of the bill passing into law.
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[Link] SA Ambulance Service patients' personal information stolen
Read: 11/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The SA Ambulance Service says the personal details of 28,000 patients have been stolen but there is no indication they have been misused. The patient records are linked to about 32,000 ambulance call-outs between 2000 and 2003.
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[Link] SA Police investigate how COVID-positive woman who sparked NT lockdown entered state
Read: 8/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
SA Police is investigating if a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 and sparked the Northern Territory's lockdown had the relevant travel permits into South Australia from Victoria.
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[Link] Adelaide father-of-three Joshua Luke Matheson handed five-year jail term over $500k tax fraud
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide man who made up employers and income to defraud the Australian Tax Office out of half a million dollars has been jailed for five years. Joshua Luke Matheson, 34, was found guilty by a jury of dishonestly obtaining and attempting to dishonestly obtain a financial advantage by deception.
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[Link] 'I didn't sleep last night': Residents devastated by compulsory acquisition of homes for North-South Corridor
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The state government has sent letters to locals north of ANZAC Highway and up to the River Torrens who will be affected by the last instalment of the North-South Corridor project. We offer tailored front pages for local audiences in each state and territory.
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[Link] Adelaide emergency doctor withdraws legal challenge against mandatory vaccinations
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide emergency doctor who sought to challenge the state's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has withdrawn his legal challenge in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.
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[Link] 'Sovereign citizen' posts video after failing to appear in court on firearms offences
Read: 2/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Solange Goodes, 42, was arrested at her farm in Sandy Creek earlier this year, after police allege she threatened them when they came to the property to check if registered guns were properly secured.
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[Link] 'Taken a long time to arrive, but it generally hits the mark': code of conduct tabled in South Australian parliament
Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Members of the South Australian parliament will officially be banned from harassing staff and other MPs under a long-awaited code of conduct tabled today. The draft code covers five areas, including: conflicts of interest, gifts, public resources, confidentiality, and standards of behaviour.
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[Link] Federation 'ill-equipped' to deal with 21st-century challenges as Australia grows 'vulnerable'
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
More than 250 stakeholders are behind a report, as part of the National Resilience Project (NRP), that makes recommendations on topics including energy security, climate change responses, global and regional security risks, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] Truck driver accused of spitting on and assaulting police at border checkpoint refused bail
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Brendan J Moore, 57, faced the Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with assaulting a police officer and another worker, and resisting police.
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[Link] What's happening in SA's parliament and why could it spell trouble for the Attorney-General?
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Deliberations begin today into an inquiry that will probe into the conduct of the state's Attorney-General and Deputy Premier Vickie Chapman. It's one of the unfolding consequences of the party defection of Liberal backbench MP Dan Cregan, and the government's reduced numbers in parliament.
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[Link] Extinction Rebellion protesters glued to road in Adelaide's CBD call for climate change action
Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Extinction Rebellion protesters have glued their hands and feet to the road in the heart of Adelaide's CBD, demanding immediate political action on climate change. Traffic is being disrupted by the gathering, some of whom have chained themselves to one another and to prams.
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[Link] Adelaide paedophile to plead guilty to 142 more offences
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The lawyer for an HIV-positive paedophile who talked about infecting children with the virus has told an Adelaide court his client will admit to committing almost 180 child exploitation crimes.
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[Link] First person sentenced in SA after Operation Ironside arrests to spend two years behind bars
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The first person in South Australia to be sentenced as part of Operation Ironside will spend at least two years in prison for transporting millions of dollars' worth of methamphetamine earlier this year.
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[Link] Man spared jail after assaulting attendant on flight from Melbourne to Adelaide
Read: 12/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Timothy Kenneth Hawkes, 29, was flying from Melbourne to Adelaide in May after South Australian authorities announced the state's border was closing to Victoria due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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[Link] Police investigate after car set alight in driveway of Mount Gambier home
Read: 10/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police are investigating a suspicious car fire at Mount Gambier overnight, in what appears to be a targeted attack on a woman who tested positive to COVID-19 earlier this week.
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[Link] Public servants 'no longer mandated' to report misconduct following controversial ICAC curtailment
Read: 9/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Public servants have been told they no longer have a mandatory requirement to report misconduct and maladministration in their workplaces, as new laws that govern South Australia's anti-corruption watchdog come into force.
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[Link] Police officer's stalker possessed explosives in 'misguided' belief they were valuable, court told
Read: 6/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Oswald Bruggemans, 65, has pleaded guilty to stalking a police officer at Victor Harbor in February.
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[Link] 'My husband would still be alive': Widow of SA Police officer claims ICAC delays contributed to husband's suicide
Read: 22/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The wife of a senior South Australian police officer who took his own life during an investigation by the state's anti-corruption watchdog has criticised the organisation and its processes. Doug Barr spent 43 years in the force and was involved with the investigation into the Salt Creek kidnapping.
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[Link] Arrest warrant issued for man charged over house parties during SA lockdown
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide court has issued a warrant for a man accused of holding multiple house parties during South Australia's last COVID-19 lockdown. Bitanya Sibeko failed to appear for a hearing on his charge of failing to comply with a health directive.
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[Link] SA teacher cries as she apologises for grooming high school student for sex
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Renee Underwood, 34, fronted the District Court today charged with making a child amenable to sexual activity after earlier pleading guilty to the crime. The victim was an aspiring male medical student who was groomed between July and August last year.
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[Link] Three charged for allegedly trying to shoot drugs into SA prison by bow and arrow
Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Three people have been arrested for allegedly trying to use a bow and arrow to shoot drugs into the Port Augusta Prison. Late yesterday afternoon, police were called when three people were seen in a car acting suspiciously behind the jail.
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[Link] Robotic dog employed to roam Adelaide streets in search of damaged power lines
Read: 8/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
You may remember the Boston Dynamics’ “agile mobile robot” from such moments as dancing with Grimes, or policing social distancing in Singapore. Nasa is also training him to explore caves on Mars.
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[Link] South Australians, including a couple in their 60s, arrested after entering the state without a permit
Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Six people, including a couple from Kangaroo Island and another pair who crossed fields to enter the state from Victoria, have been arrested and charged after separate breaches of South Australia's COVID-19 restrictions.
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[Link] Adelaide man charged with extra offences after counter-terrorism investigation
Read: 26/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An Adelaide man has been charged with additional offences as a result of a joint counter-terrorism investigation. The 33-year-old man was arrested in April and charged with three offences over the alleged possession of an explosive device.
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[Link] NSW man who escaped SA hotel quarantine to go to pub sentenced to 14 days in prison
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Paul McElhinney, 33, pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to failing to comply with a COVID-19 direction. McElhinney, who lives in Sydney, was quarantining at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Adelaide's CBD after returning from his father's funeral in Scotland.
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[Link] Sleeping man dragged from car by masked attackers and assaulted in Adelaide's north
Read: 22/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police said the man was asleep in his green VY Commodore on Jessie Road at Paralowie in Adelaide's north when he was dragged from his car and assaulted by the masked attackers about 4:30am. The two men then allegedly stole the car and sped off.
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[Link] Man who allegedly escaped hotel quarantine and went to SA pub arrested
Read: 18/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An investigation has found flaws in South Australia's medi-hotel security protocols, which allowed an international arrival to leave hotel quarantine for eight hours and attend a nearby pub and fast food outlet last week.
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[Link] Two men in hospital after alleged stabbing in Adelaide's north
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police were called to a reserve on Leslie Avenue at Blair Athol about 10:15pm yesterday. They found a Parafield Gardens man in his car in nearby Alice Avenue with stab wounds to his abdomen.
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[Link] Private provider lodges application to hike Mount Compass water supply charge by 682 per cent
Read: 4/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An application to increase the supply charge of water from $92 a quarter to $722 for residents of a South Australian town has been lodged just months after an application by the private provider to increase annual bills by about 260 per cent was rejected.
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[Link] Woman hands herself in over theft of electric wheelchair from Adelaide home
Read: 3/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The electric wheelchair was returned to its owner over the weekend after being found dumped at Cowandilla, around a kilometre from where it was stolen, about 12:30am on Saturday.
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[Link] South Australia Vs. Too Much Home Solar
Read: 12/5/2021 hackaday.com
Once upon a time, the consensus was that renewable energy was too expensive and in too sparse supply to be a viable power source to run our proud, electrified societies on.
[Link] Labor accused of imitating popular petition platform change.org for political page
Read: 9/4/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Change SA site is a Labor Party operated domain, which encourages people to sign and create petitions about various issues, through entering their name, email address, mobile phone number, and suburb. Change.
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[Link] 'Not going to waste my time': Mental health chief blasts SA Health on way out door
Read: 7/4/2021 indaily.com.au
Adjunct Professor John Mendoza has resigned from his position as executive director of mental health and prison health services at the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN), a year into his three-year contract.
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[Link] Man hurt while in police custody and acquitted of ill-advised assault charge now suing SA Police
Read: 2/2/2021 www.abc.net.au
Three prosecutors advised against charging a man with assault after an incident at the Victor Harbor Police Station, but he was prosecuted anyway and acquitted after a trial, a court has heard.