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Douglas SmithIndigenous affairs reporter

Douglas Smith is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster – including being part of the team that won a Walkley Award in 2023 for the podcast Dying Rose, which investigated the police response to the deaths of six Indigenous women around Australia. Douglas has worked for SBS and NITV as a video journalist, and now covers Indigenous affairs for The Advertiser.

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Coastal flood warnings as SA waits for wild winds to hit

Families in the Adelaide Plains coastal area were being warned to prepare to put their flood plans into action ahead of Sunday night’s and Monday’s predicted wild weather.

Entertainment

Chaser’s meltdown moment over shirtless premier

A game show character on a popular television show had the ultimate ‘brain fade’ moment and it was all to do with our shirtless Premier. Watch the video.

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Pedestrian, 77, in critical condition after being struck by van

An elderly man has been hospitalised with critical injuries after being hit by a van on Friday.

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Alleged victim of Lobethal stabbing being walked into hospital alongside a police officer. 7News Adelaide.

Police investigate alleged Adelaide Hills stabbing

Police are investigating after two men sustained stab wounds during an assault in an Adelaide Hills town on Thursday afternoon.

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A serious crash between a truck and motorcycle in Blackwood on Thursday afternoon is currently causing peak-hour traffic chaos. , , Emergency services were called to Shepherds Hill Rd, just after 3.30pm, to a two-vehicle collision. Picture: 7NEWS

Rider fighting for life after rush-hour crash with truck

A 46-year-old man is in a critical condition after a collision that caused peak-hour chaos on a busy road in the Adelaide foothills.

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Geoffrey Bretherton Bean AM, M.A. (Cantab.), Cert Ed., M.A.C.E.1934 – 2025Headmaster, Prince Alfred College, 1970–1987

Blue-chip Adelaide college remembers late headmaster

He was the headmaster of one of SA’s most elite private schools for almost two decades and is being remembered as a man with “deep integrity”.

VideoSA News

Two armed suspects approaching an unarmed male and a group of party-goers in a white Toyota Hatchback. 9 News Adelaide

Man flees home after ‘bikie-linked’ thugs crash school after-party

A man says he has fled his home after a school formal after-party he was hosting in Adelaide’s north spiralled into chaos, claiming armed intruders with suspected bikie links smashed their way in.

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Police are investigating after a man aged in his 30s, fell from a moving rental truck at Sturt on Tuesday.

Man suffers critical head injuries after fall from moving truck

Police are investigating after a passenger sustained critical head injuries from falling out of a moving rental truck on a busy Adelaide road.

Police & Courts

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos April 14, 2025: Champion Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis appeared for sentencing submissions on Monday after pleading guilty in January to driving recklessly before the death of his wife Melissa Hoskins. Picture: NewsWire / Dean Martin

‘Piece of my heart missing’: Rohan Dennis’ apology letter to late wife

After being handed a suspended sentence of more than a year in jail, with a non-parole period of 10 months, Rohan Dennis has penned an apology to his dead wife. Read the full letter.

UPDATEDAdelaide Hills & Murraylands

‘Don’t come back’: Two arrested for alleged serious assault at Murray Bridge

Two men have been arrested following an alleged serious assault at Murray Bridge last week, which left a man fighting for his life in hospital.

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