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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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Police & Courts

2024 Anthony John Smith prison mugshot. Picture: Supplied

Family fears for prisoner as hunger strike continues

The family of a notorious South Australian armed robber who is refusing to eat after a prison transfer, claims he is being held in inhumane conditions.

SA News

TV presenter Narelda Jacobs, comedian Steph Tisdell and actor Rob Collins, the three hosts set to emcee the First Nations night of nights in Adelaide on Saturday, at the national NAIDOC Awards Ceremony.5th July 2024. Picture: Brett Hartwig

NAIDOC Person of the Year named

A fierce advocate for Aboriginal children has been named Person of the Year at the 2024 National NAIDOC Awards in Adelaide.

SA News

Nunyara Aboriginal Health Service is set to receive a $5.3 million funding boost from the federal government.

Upper Spencer Gulf Aboriginal health set for $5.3 million injection

Four Aboriginal community Controlled Health Organisations in SA will receive a funding boost out of the Albanese government’s $100 million announcement to improve health outcomes for First Nations communities.

Entertainment

Original band members of Coloured Stone from left to right: John John Miller, Mackie Coaby, Neil Coaby, Bruce 'Bunny' Mundy and Bunna Lawrie.

Trailblazing rockers to be inducted into the SA music Hall of Fame

Formed at Koonibba Aboriginal Mission in 1977 and nearly 50 years later, an SA trailblazing rock band are set to be inducted into the South Australia Music Hall of Fame.

Police & Courts

Boss charged with alleged rape of teenage employee

A 47-year-old northern suburbs man has been charged with allegedly raping one of his teenage employees while he was giving the young girl a lift home after work.

EXCLUSIVEEducation

A 13-year-old autistic student has refused to return to his northeastern suburbs school after the student who bashed him until he “lost consciousness” was allowed back earlier this month.

Autistic student brutally beaten in sickening public school yard attack

A student is refusing to return to his northeastern suburbs high school after he was bashed unconscious by a group of older students, fearing he will be attacked again.

SA News

Saturday June 10 2023 Nuriootpa High School. Nuriootpa South Australia.Picture: Roy VanDerVegt

‘Rapist, pedophile’: Vile bullying claims at SA’s horror high

Horrific slurs against a student with autism are the latest shocking allegations of bullying at one of SA’s biggest regional high schools.

SA News

A mother a daughter have told the Advertiser of the relentless bullying at Nuriootpa High School in the Barossa Valley. Picture: Douglas Smith

‘Choked for no reason’: Bullying at Barossa ‘laughed off’ by school

A young female student removed herself from a Barossa school after she was “relentlessly” bullied, assaulted and threatened.

National

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY, 15, 2023: Th Aboriginal flag is seen at the Victorian Parliament building.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

‘Stalled’: Poll reveals what Voice vote did to Aussie opinions

Australians have become less supportive of Closing The Gap initiatives, with an overall decline in interest in Indigenous issues, a new study shows.

SA News

The Mid-Murray Council said it has been challenging to stockpile enough firewood for their two paddle-steamers.

Tourist icons’ hot offer as shortage sparks kindling call out

A River Murray council needs firewood donations to keep two heritage paddle-steamers going, and has offered a holiday experience in return.

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