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Lauren NovakEducation and social policy editor

Lauren Novak is the education and social policy editor for The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. She has specialised in coverage of domestic violence and child protection for more than 10 years and has won national and state awards. Lauren is an Our Watch Walkley Foundation Fellow and a board director at domestic violence recovery charity Zahra Foundation Australia.

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NEWS ADV Women in Media FORUM with Weatherill, Marshall, Xeno, Brokie, Parnell - at Mercury AAP/RUSSELL MILLARD

Party leaders agree not enough being done for women

SOUTH Australia is “not doing enough” for its women and politics can be a “nasty space” for females, the state’s political leaders have conceded during a debate ahead of the state election.

SA 2018

10.2.2018.Govt announcing funding for surf life saving clubs.L-r Lucy Codd ,Aimee Plouffe,Lauren Daly,Ciara McGeagh ,Henley extreme team youth program at Henley SLSC, and Joey Loielo on the jet ski. pic tait schmaal.

Labor pledges shark drones for SA beaches

DRONES and buoys to detect sharks at popular beaches and mobile patrol units for regional hot spots are among promises made by Labor to surf lifesaving clubs across the state.

SA 2018

Cory Bernardi and Nick Xenophon at SAHMRI.

Xenophon defends his health budget maths

PREMIER hopeful Nick Xenophon has hit back at his political rivals after he was criticised for putting the state health budget at $3.6b instead of the total budget of $5.9b.

SA 2018

Australian Walking Company has been chosen to build three luxury, tent-style, eco-friendly accommodation options along the Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail. The company will run four-day, guided walks, staying overnight in the new accommodation. It will be based on projects by the company elsewhere, including the Twelve Apostles Lodge Walk and the Bay of Fires Lodge Walk. Pic: Supplied

Luxury eco-tents planned for KI trekkers

WALKERS trekking the Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail next year will be able to stay overnight in new eco-friendly, luxury accommodation.

SA News

South Australian premier Jay Weatherill, leader of the opposition Steven Marshall and leader of SA Best party Nick Xenophon addresses questions at the AMA Political Leaders Breakfast at The Playford Adelaide hotel on Wednesday, November 8, 2017. Various South Australian political party leaders gather to discuss health and other key election promises ahead of the SA state election, which will take place on Sunday, March 18, 2018. (Image AAP/Mark Brake) NO ARCHIVING

Leaders pitch for your vote

THE men who could be Premier of the state next month will face off in a three-way debate today, laying out their pitch for your vote. WATCH LIVE.

SA 2018

Carolyn Martin (Enfield), Karen Hockey (Davenport), Tarnia George (Seat of Ramsay), Jassmine Wood (Colton), Nick Xenophon, Kate Bickford (Badcoe), Helen Szuty (Playford) and Sonja Taylor (Taylor) pose for a photograph in Unley, Adelaide on Thursday the 25th of January 2018. The Strong Female Line-Up for the Nick Xenophon Team. (AAP/ Keryn Stevens)

Women put Mr X in reach of top job

THE rapidly expanding SA Best party has hit the magic number of candidates to potentially hold government, revealing another eight political hopefuls today.

Northern Territory

Don’t let any other children die

UPDATED: The parents of tragic toddler meningococcal victim, Skylar Lawrence, have made an impassioned plea to include a vaccination for the deadly disease in a government-funded program

South Australia

Beach pictures. Brooke Shea of Rosewater on a stand up paddle boards at Seacliff beach. Picture: Dylan Coker

Have backpack, will travel to SA’s wonders

BACKPACKERS and working holiday-makers are the target of a $5 million tourism campaign promoting low-cost Aussie attractions, including on Kangaroo Island and the Eyre Peninsula.

SA News

A slab of steel is cooled at Liberty House's rolling steel mill in Newport, U.K. Tata Steel said Monday that it has agreed to sell its specialty steel business in the U.K. to Liberty House. PHOTO: CHRIS RATCLIFFE/BLOOMBERG NEWS

ARRIUM SOLD: Thousands of jobs saved

AN international conglomerate run by a billionaire British industrialist has signed a deal to buy the Arrium steelworks and mining operations, saving the jobs of around 5500 people in Whyalla.

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