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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Sarah Maunder |Daniel Keane |Isabella Carbone
Australia's biggest lake is believed to have reached capacity on only three occasions in the past 160 years, but the mass of floodwater now flowing into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is raising hope, as well as river levels. On maps of Australia, the great inland salt lakes are often shaded in blue. The colour suggests the presence of water, which can be misleading, especially for the biggest of those lakes.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Isabella Carbone |Alana Calvert
A privately-funded search has begun at a former factory site in Adelaide's south-west in the hope of providing fresh information in a nearly 60-year-old cold case. Excavation began at the old Castalloy property in North Plympton on Saturday morning in an effort to search for the remains of the three Beaumont children, who disappeared in 1966. Independent state MP Frank Pangallo, who organised the private dig, said it was likely the last chance to conduct another search before the land was sold.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Isabella Carbone
Burlesque performer Ethereal Jade remembers confessing to her friends through tears that she liked both boys and girls. "It was so frowned upon," she recalled, saying she experienced mental health challenges while trying to understand her sexuality. More recently, she started burlesque and adopted her stage name as a way of embracing her identity.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Isabella Carbone
The South Australian government will pour half a million dollars into programs aimed at reducing the likelihood of shark attacks and improve first aid responses on remote beaches, after a horror year of fatal attacks in 2023. The state government announced the funding in partnership with Surf Life Saving SA.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Stephanie Richards |Isabella Carbone
A leader of South Australia's inaugural First Nations Voice to Parliament has resigned from the advisory body, describing the model as "unsustainable". Narungga, Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri woman Tahlia Wanganeen was elected to the Central Adelaide Voice in March and appointed a presiding member of the State Voice in June. She told ABC News she quit the State and Central Voices in September.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Isabella Carbone
It has been almost one month since Port Augusta police were given greater powers to curb crime and alcohol abuse in the CBD, but a South Australian elder says the move is disproportionately impacting First Nations people. Adnyamathanha elder Uncle Charles Jackson OAM – who is South Australia's Senior Australian of the Year – has lived in the area for more than five decades.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Isabella Carbone
Last year, Kristin Haseldine was the most tired she had ever been in her life. The 37-year-old quit her job and moved back in with her parents in Adelaide at the end of 2023. "The last couple of years have gotten progressively harder, and I just couldn't work out why," she said. After a recent diagnosis of autism and ADHD (AuDHD), Ms Haseldine felt like she had an answer for the challenges she had faced, and recognised she had been experiencing "autistic burnout".
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Kate Higgins |Isabella Carbone
Coober Pedy is renowned for its productive opal mining industry, but Aboriginal peoples' involvement in the practice has not been widely acknowledged. Aboriginal miners have participated in the industry since at least 1915, mining their own claims and working independently, as well as for others. Today, artist George Cooley's opal mining experience inspires his award-winning paintings.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Isabella Carbone
Women are being targeted on social media with advertising for products purporting to address the symptoms of menopause and perimenopause, a Senate inquiry has heard. But the inquiry has heard product claims are not necessarily "substantiated". The inquiry committee is expected to hand down its report with recommendations this September.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Isabella Carbone
If you have ever had general surgery, chances are you would have been administered intravenous (IV) fluids. A global shortage of multiple IV fluid products has prompted Australian health authorities to conserve their stock levels in hospitals, while veterinary clinics across the country are already grappling with shortages. Sodium chloride — salt, commonly known as saline in solution — and sodium lactate solutions are some of the fluids in short supply worldwide.
