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Paul Ashenden is a senior reporter with The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. He has held a range of senior roles in newsrooms around Australia, including editor of the Sunday Mail and editor of SAWeekend magazine, and is a passionate storyteller.

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Paul Ashenden

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Education

Kapunda High School - Eringa building rebuild. Picture: Supplied

Amazing drone shots show devastation at historic school

An Australian-first program will see students take a hands on role in restoring the historic building it to its former grandeur.

PodcastLifestyle

‘Just gotta save him’: Dad’s horror after forklift crushes son

Seb Steel is lying crushed under a five-tonne forklift. His father Ian is first on the scene and must act quickly to save him.

SA News

Steve Trigg standing next to in his Shack After the 2023 Murray River flooding. Pictured on Tuesday 28th Feb 2023. Picture: Ben Clark

‘This was our spot’: Giant gum smashes through flooded shack

A raging River Murray has carried a massive 20m gum tree through a window and into the second storey dining area of a shack at Punyelroo. See the incredible before and after pictures.

SA News

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - Advertiser Photos FEBRUARY 8, 2023: Jodie Reynolds from Foxtale Houseboats takes stock of the River Murray flood water damage at her river property as the flood waters recede on The Murray River in Morgan SA. Picture Emma Brasier

Before and after: Heartbreaking images show flood’s devastation

Incredible before and after images from a gutted homeowner on the River Murray show the devastating impact of this summer’s historic flood. Read her heart-wrenching story.

SA News

Port Adelaide star Jeremy Finlayson, his fiance Kellie Gardner and their daughter Sophia, 18 months, on February 2nd, 2023, at their Hendon home.Picture: Tom Huntley

‘If I’d just got it checked’: Port couple’s cruel cancer shock

Kellie Gardner thought she was through her year of bowel cancer hell. But then she and her fiance, Port star Jeremy Finlayson, received devastating news.

videoSA News

Cassie Taylor with her son, Tyler Powell, 15, in-front of whatÃs left of Blanchetown Caravan Park in Paisley, thatÃs been destroyed by flooding, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. Picture: Matt Loxton

‘Like a cyclone’: Devastating reality of Murray flood

The owner of a flooded River Murray caravan park has gone back to her destroyed business and home – sharing a heart-wrenching video showing the carnage.

SA Weekend

Kimberlyn Selvan, Samuel Nitschke , Kaine Baldwin, Awur Deng, and Macie Roberts. Young people who are negotiating their adult lives in the wake of Covid, on January 3rd, 2022, at Montefiore Hill in Adelaide., Picture: Ben Clark

Where are they now? What happened to SA’s Covid kids

The end (hopefully) of the worst of Covid has meant big life changes for at least some of our Covid kids. So how do they feel? And what is their long-term outlook?

SA News

‘Meet me in Melbourne?’: Superstar’s call for South Aussie’s help

Former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka talks to Mark Soderstrom about motherhood, inspiring a new generation and an Adelaide connection.

Opinion

ADELAIDE ADVERTISER ONLY . NO AUS . NO PERTH . NO NEWS.COM . NO RESALE . ONE TIME USE ONLY . Australian journalist Paul Ashenden in empty streets of main tourist area Thamel, Kathmandu. Picture: Brad Fleet

Stranded: Our holiday from hell made global headlines

We were on the trek of our lives to the Mount Everest base camp when we suddenly became headlines in the biggest story on earth, writes Paul Ashenden.

PodcastAFL

Port Adelaide players Zak Butters and Connor Rozee on Mark Soderstrom's, podcast The Soda Room. Picture: Supplied

‘I’d never spoken to anyone about it’: Butters’ Port camp revelation

Zak Butters explains how one moment on a Port pre-season camp allowed him to open up about a family secret like never before. Listen to him and Connor Rozee chat with Mark Soderstrom.

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