A greyhound was killed at Gawler Greyhound Club over the weekend after breaking his leg while racing, in the fifth track death in South Australia for the year.
A greyhound was killed at Adelaide’s Angle Park racetrack last week after breaking her leg while racing, earning Angle Park the title of Australia’s deadliest track for greyhounds so far this year
The life of a veteran 5 year old greyhound came to a sad end after winning his owners $31,565 in prize money in 85 races. The response from NSW’s greyhound racing regulator was to hide the footage of him breaking his leg
A greyhound was killed at Adelaide’s Angle Park racetrack on Monday after breaking his leg while racing. The dog’s death is the third greyhound death this year at South Australian racetracks and the fifth death at Greyhound Racing South Australia’s flagship Angle Park track since it underwent a $3 million ‘safety upgrade’ late last year.
Physical force was used at least 350 times by staff against detainees at Adelaide’s immigration detention centre last year despite its small population of detainees, according to figures released last month under freedom of information laws.
Behind the scenes of a charity high school music event, board members have benefited from promotion of their personal business interests, and in 2017, musician James Morrison oversaw a $130,000 land sale deal while Chairman with an old friend and previous board member using charity funds.
Parliamentary expenditure records show Tony Abbott charged taxpayers over $95,000 for 16 days of travel to Indigenous communities while he was Special Envoy for Indigenous Affairs in 2018 and 2019, and charged for increases in office and administration expenses in the lead up to the Warringah election in May 2019 while holding the role.
The South Australian Government refuses to release the cost of taking musician James Morrison and several James Morrison Academy of Music students on a taxpayer-funded trip to China in 2016, and holds no records of a government award given to Morrison’s son five weeks prior to the trip.
New documents released under freedom of information law confirm the South Australian Government awarded musician James Morrison $550,000 of taxpayer funds for his private company from a regional development fund without any application process in 2015. Within months, Morrison put his name to an application seeking an additional $16 million involving the same fund.
The James Morrison Academy of Music was required to meet annual student enrolment numbers in order to meet the conditions of a government contract for $500,000 of taxpayer funding—but fell short for several years before the contract deadline of June 30, 2019, and offered admission to a student outside of formal processes.
Documents released under Freedom of Information laws show musician James Morrison was awarded $500,000 of South Australian government funding for his private business against internal government advice, just 3 months after a business associate of his met with the Chief of Staff of the Premier of South Australia.
The Government of South Australia continues to delay the repeal of the problematic “gay panic” defence for murder, despite having promised that the legislation would be abolished before the end of 2019, citing “unfortunate consequences” if removal of the law is “handled incorrectly."
The SA State Government proposed new laws to garnish entire compensation payments awarded to prisoners who experience mistreatment in prison, but refused to release documentation relating the announced laws or comment on how the policy might affect vulnerable prison populations.
The Australian Government continues to allow a Centenary Medal awarded to Rolf Harris to remain in place, five years after his conviction in the United Kingdom for indecently assaulting four children.
Despite government-commissioned reports suggesting the provocation defence for murder indirectly sanctions homophobic lethal violence and is more difficult for women to access as a defence than men, the South Australian Government continues to claim the defence is valuable to victims of domestic violence and is yet to abolish the defence despite years of promises from its current leaders.
The ABC has acknowledged it is unable to state how many complaints of sexual assault, sexual harassment or sexual misconduct had been received by the organisation from 2015-19 because documents "do not exist", according to a response provided under freedom of information law.
21 incidents of sexual assault and/or sexual harassment were reported to Flinders University (South Australia) in 2017, but the university responded only with written warnings in just 4 of the 21 cases.
The University of Adelaide had 12 incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment reported to the university in 2018, leading to three staff members having their employment ended and one student being expelled by the university.
A quick look at why the Murdoch-owned South Australian newspaper The Advertiser should have avoided terms like “monster” and “sex fiend” when reporting on a rape case.
Having pocketed six years worth of consulting fees campaigning on behalf of the federal government for their proposed nuclear waste dump in SA, Australian Public Affairs claims their work is a "success" as the Barngarla people of the Eyre Peninsula continue to fight the dump through the courts
The recreational duck shooting season remains open in South Australia despite the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic and declining populations of native water birds. The duck shooting season has been open for over two weeks and is set to continue until May 31.
While selecting a site for its proposed national nuclear waste dump site in Kimba, Australia’s federal government sought to sidestep environmental laws to conduct drilling work in South Australia in 2018, stating that “such approval is not needed for this work."
A look at the processes and data behind the bushfire risk assessment of the last site left on the Federal Government’s shortlist for a nuclear waste dump in South Australia, as a fire burns in Secret Rocks, around 70km away.
