A coalition of mental health heavyweights have launched an unprecedented directive to Health Minister Stephen Wade to start fixing the state’s broken system by getting prisoners and NDIS-ready clients out of general mental health beds.

A new study has found smacking children can traumatise them to the same extent as violent abuse.

Rundle Mall’s biggest bookstore, Dymocks, will close its doors at its current location for the last time today, to be replaced with a Rebel Sport “megastore”.

Carla Zampatti created her own clothes from the age of 12 and 66 years on, the fashion matriarch’s quest for style and beauty was paraded among the 1200 mourners who packed Sydney’s St Mary’s for her state funeral.

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Former Labor MP Annabel Digance and her husband Greg have been charged  with blackmailing Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas in an alleged plot to regain a seat in State Parliament.

Household air conditioners, pool pumps, hot water systems and electric vehicle chargers would be switched off remotely when the power grid is under pressure, under changes planned by the State Government.

Almost 10,000 tickets to the AFLW Grand Final sold within 15 minutes, as fans jumped at the opportunity to see the Crows take on Brisbane at Adelaide Oval.

Growing up, Lions youngster Belle Dawes never thought it was possible she would play in a nationwide women’s competition let alone run out onto Adelaide Oval in her first AFLW grand final on Saturday.

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Adelaide University has knocked back research projects worth millions of dollars in revenue because of risks associated with links to China.

The Adelaide Casino will cease dealing with international gambling tour operators – or “junkets” – after an inquiry into Crown Resorts raised alarm about their links to organised crime and money-laundering.

Authorities admit there are dozens of staff still working in medi-hotels despite having refused coronavirus vaccines.

Adelaide captain Chelsea Randall is gutted to not be playing in Saturday’s AFLW grand final, but says the team does not need her to win and she will be cheering proudly on the sidelines.

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Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor has backed moves to stamp out bad behaviour at Adelaide City Council.

A seven-year-old girl’s appendix ruptured while she waiting more than eight hours for surgery at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, her parents say.

The grief-stricken wife of a man crushed to death by a tree branch at their Surrey Downs property has begged the local council to remove the tree  and prevent another tragedy.

Port Adelaide faces a tough decision whether to go with youth to replace Zak Butters and Xavier Duursma or pick more experienced players who assistant coach Brett Montgomery says “we know we can rely on”. 

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Britons continue to place floral tributes to Prince Philip who died on Friday, aged 99. A timeline to vaccinate all Australians against COVID-19 has been thrown overboard by the Prime Minister. Tracking violent abusers with GPS-enabled ankle bracelets

dramatically reduces the likelihood they will hurt people. Metropolitan Fire Service chief officer waited more than a month to suspend a high-ranking officer over alleged misconduct. Tickets for the AFL women's Grand Final go on sale tomorrow afternoon.

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Prince Philip’s death may be the moment Prince Harry mends bridges with the Royal Family. Australia still doesn’t have a national firearms register. Dilapidated buildings at Leigh Creek will be bulldozed as part of State Government plans

to revive the former mining town. The Crows will chase a third premiership after an impressive preliminary final victory over Melbourne at Adelaide Oval yesterday.

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Recycling from councils across Adelaide will be stockpiled following a fire which has crippled a Visy processing plant. South Australia’s traditional German festival left without shooting for the first time in its 132-year history. Emails from sacked SA health expert warns the mental health system was reaching breaking point under the COVID-19 crisis. Adelaide battles Melbourne in the AFLW preliminary final.

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Bosses will be given the legal power to sack staff who sexually harass their colleagues. Adelaide University vice-chancellor thinks South Australians

should be angry that the state’s coronavirus quarantine facilities

haven’t been taking in lucrative international students. An eastern suburbs council has backflipped on its decision to ban three top-selling gossip magazines from its library. Port Adelaide remains unsure if it can wear its prison-bar guernsey

in its showdown against the Crows next month.

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Premier Steven Marshall and Prime Minister Scott Morrison have discussed using government finance to keep Whyalla’s steelworks afloat. The Women’s and Children’s Hospital emergency department faced “unpre­cedented demand” on Tuesday night. Police are poised to charge HIV-positive paedophile Jadd William Brooker with 100 more offences. Six months on from Port Adelaide falling to Richmond in last year’s preliminary final, the two sides are set to meet again at Adelaide Oval tomorrow night.

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Quality testing of the COVID-19 vaccine is the biggest, but necessary, roadblock in the rollout. Ex-pat in his 40s still in ICU at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after transfer from COVID medi-hotel. New polling shows the Coalition is facing collapse in South Australia. Creditors seek to seize control of Sanjeev Gupta’s Whyalla steel operations. South Australia’s first, indeed the nation's, first Indigenous ice hockey team is the Kaurna Boomerangs.

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