Thomas Kelsall

Nick Bolkus, the long-time Labor senator who played an influential role in shaping Australia's migration policy under prime minister Paul Keating, has died aged 75.

An Adelaide street artist's poster aimed at provoking thought about national identity has been vandalised with racist graffiti.

As the political year winds up, Premier Peter Malinauskas and Liberal leader Ashton Hurn have much to contemplate over their Christmas lunch.

The South Australian government has released plans for North Adelaide's public golf course redevelopment confirming that nearly 600 trees will be cut down, not the thousands previously claimed by the Liberals.

Ashton Hurn now has the job she said she didn't want. Could she be the leader the South Australian Liberal Party needs?

The South Australian government is trying to speed up the transfer of hospital patients into aged care, but advocates say they are "trampling on the rights of older people" in the process.

South Australian Liberal frontbencher Ashton Hurn will run for her party's leadership, following the shock resignation of Vincent Tarzia just months out from the next state election.

Four and a half years after a landmark review into sexual harassment, South Australia's Parliament has been accused of moving at a "glacial pace" on workplace reforms, with a new report revealing staff concerns about power imbalances and a "deeply ingrained culture of favouritism".

Former South Australian premier Mike Rann has sharply criticised the gas industry and warned that "battalions" of fossil fuel lobbyists will be descending on next year's UN climate summit to influence negotiations.

Children and young people at Adelaide's only youth detention centre are being held to the floor in a restraint technique that "may constitute a breach of human rights and clinical best practice", according to a report tabled in parliament.

A Senate inquiry into South Australia's toxic algal bloom has been tabled highlighting "limitations" in how the government has handled the crisis.

About 10 per cent of mental health patients in South Australian hospital emergency departments are being kept waiting "more than 35 hours" for a bed, the AMA says.

As the UN's annual climate change conference kicks off in Brazil, authorities in Adelaide are still in the dark about whether Australia's fifth-biggest city will be hosting next year's event.

South Australia's Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC) Emma Townsend has taken over an anti-corruption commission described by her predecessor as the "weakest integrity agency in Australia". Does she agree?

Former South Australian opposition leader David Speirs says he will make a decision about his political future in the coming weeks as he launches his own plans for the algal bloom.

The South Australian government's three costliest hospital projects have all had "delays in starting construction", according to the auditor-general — but the health minister says they remain on schedule.

If Labor’s 2022 campaign was all about ambulance patients locked out of hospitals, then 2026 is all about young people locked out of home ownership. 

Catch limits for recreational fishers will be reduced amid 'severe decline' in fish species due to the algal bloom. 

The vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide says the underpayments, which occurred between 2017 and 2025, were "unfortunate and very regrettable".

The organiser of the first March for Australia rally in Adelaide has distanced himself from that movement, attending a counter-protest on Sunday and declaring that "racism just has no place in Australia".

As the Malinauskas government proceeds with its $50 million North Adelaide golf course upgrade, some Kaurna elders are grappling with the prospect that the redevelopment could uncover Aboriginal remains.

South Australia's Office for Hydrogen Power spent more than $280 million before the state government scrapped the agency amid the failure of its Whyalla hydrogen project, an auditor-general report tabled in parliament has found.

Large scale reef restoration, new real-time water monitoring and a $1 million trial of "AI-powered submersible cytobots" are part of a $102.5 million government algal bloom program to ensure "South Australians can enjoy their summer".

The Malinauskas government has become well-versed in the language of cost blowouts, and the $3.2 billion Women's and Children's Hospital is another chance for it to flex its vocabulary.

Premier Peter Malinauskas has rejected suggestions his government's North Adelaide golf course redevelopment is a risky investment with LIV Golf losing hundreds of millions a year, as he revealed where the Saudi-backed tournament will be hosted in 2027.