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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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Ned Uren and his Video animation he wrote and built as part of his year 9 history class at Saint Ignatius College about a WW1 soldier at the Army Museum of South Australia Monday,April,19,2021.Picture Mark Brake

Digger diary inspires video for students

The diary of a South Australian World War I hero is the inspiration for a new video which aims to help students understand the horrors of war. Watch the video.

SA News

Building construction. generic. Photo: Brett Wortman / Sunshine Coast Daily

KI timber could build 10,000 homes

Thousands of tonnes of timber loom as a saviour to a chronic shortage in South Australia’s building sector.

SA Weekend

Trent Parke pictured in Adelaide on April 1, 2021. Trent is the first and only Australian to be elected a full member of the prestigious international photo agency, Magnum and has won numerous national and international awards. Picture Matt Turner.

Click goes the seer. Meet Trent Parke, photographic genius

He’s the only Australian ever accepted into international art photography agency Magnum, but there’s one photo Trent Parke missed.

SA Weekend

None of this is my fault. This man is a monster

Inside the horrific world of coercive control, and why governments are finally acting to legislate against this insidious abuse. Listen to this story as a podcast.

SA Weekend

WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC ED JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING - Pictured is Jules Sebastian at home in Maroubra today, who is fronting the Lurpak Christmas campaign. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Don’t you know what has just happened? My brother is dead

Jules Sebastian has opened up about how she was on her honeymoon with her popstar husband Guy when she learned her brother had fallen victim to mental health.

SA News

Joint winners of the senior volunteer award at the Governor's annual multicultural awards are Leila Mansour and Raymond Sardana in the grounds of Government House Tuesday March 16,2021.Picture Mark Brake

The people making our multicultural society better

The unsung heroes of South Australia’s multicultural community have been recognised at an annual awards ceremony at Government House. See all the winners here.

SA News

The Governor General of Australia Sir Peter Cosgrove AK, MC (RetÕd) is seen talking during the Consecration and Presentation of Colours Parade for the Australian ArmyÕs 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment at the Cenotaph, Bicentennial Park, the Esplanade, Saturday, June 1, 2019. Picture: Keri Megelus

Cosgrove’s call of duty on bullying

The former Governor-General can have major input in an important debate, says lawyers for clients claiming to be victims of military bullying.

ExclusiveSA Weekend

Australian Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove salutes during the QueenÕs Birthday Parade for the 'Trooping of the QueenÕs Colour' at the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Canberra, Saturday, June 8, 2019. The parade is the final public appearance in military uniform for the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove, AK MC (Retd), Governor-General of Australia, before he retires in June. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Former G-G called me to apologise for being a bastard

Why Sir Peter Cosgrove made a phone call more than five decades later to say sorry for his role in a system of bullying and bastardisation at Duntroon Royal Military College.

VideoSA Weekend

‘What did it cost us? Everything.’ Our black summer’s aftermath

VIDEO SPECIAL: For 12 months, we’ve followed their journey. Now two bushfire victims from the Hills and KI chronicle the highs and lows of rebuilding their homes, and their lives.

SA Weekend

Gulpilil: Booze, drugs and refusing to die

The addictions and bad behaviour are in the past as screen legend David Gulpilil faces his own death in a new Adelaide Festival documentary.

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