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

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Save our Jetties campaign - Port Neil, Tumby Bay and Port Germain. At Port Neil Jetty, WA family, Brett and Alesha Moyle with their kids, Ella,6, and Jay,4. 12 March 2024. Picture Dean Martin

Act now or lose our jetties forever

They’re an iconic part of South Australian history, but dozens of decaying jetties are at risk of falling into the ocean.

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Save our Jetties campaign - At Tumby Bay jetty, which has been closed for two years over safety concerns,3 generations of family, Sally Curtis, daughter, Charmaine Cross, (R), and grand daughter, Siann. 12 March 2024. Picture Dean Martin

How a storm rang the death knell of a picture-perfect country town

A picturesque coastal town in rural SA is now home to a community torn apart. And it’s down to the closure of one thing.

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Save our Jetties campaign - At Port Neil Jetty, Tumby Bay District Council Mayor, Geoff Churchett. 12 March 2024. Picture Dean Martin

Historic jetty given new hope after survey circulates the coastal town

One of the state’s most iconic tourist destinations has been closed for two summers, but there could be light at the end of the tunnel.

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Kingston-on-Murray Caravan Park, owner Barbara and Geoff Calvert with their dog Arya. The park is still not open 12 months after last year's River Murray flood destroyed their park. Tuesday, December 12, 2023. (The Advertiser/ Morgan Sette)

Bureaucratic red tape: Park still closed 12 months after Murray flood

More than a year after the River Murray floods, a caravan park that was the lifeblood of a small community remains closed, with the owners still searching for answers.

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23,November, 2023: Portrait of Sam Shahin with his mother and son. Picture: Kelly Barnes

‘Incredibly distressed’: Sam Shahin’s emotional Gaza plea

Horrific footage and images from the conflict in Gaza have rekindled nightmares from a bomb shelter in Beirut for The Bend boss Sam Shahin and his family.

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Charlie Stevens and Grant Stevens. Picture: Supplied

Top cop Grant Stevens’ son dies after alleged hit-run crash at Schoolies

Charlie Stevens, the son of SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens, has died in hospital after he was struck in an alleged hit-run crash at Goolwa beach on Friday night.

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Gloria Jones, wife of the late River Murray campaigner Henry Jones, with his fishing boat in the background in Clayton Bay. Picture Matt Turner.

Nightmare returns as SA game-changer’s dying wish washes away

If you thought last year’s flood disaster saved the River Murray for us, think again. New threats lurk upstream.

POLLOpinion

A young red head boy and his sister are decorating the Christmas tree in their home. He is reaching up and putting a bauble onto the tree while his sister tries to help.

It’s November – and it’s way too early to put up the Christmas tree

Christmas is in December and it’s madness to put up the tree before then, right? Take our poll here.

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Then and now: SA like you’ve never seen it

A dream of replicating near century-old aerial imagery of our state has delivered a unique perspective on SA’s landmarks. See the side-by-side images here.

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VOICE VAN - Day 3 Friday - In Port Augusta, Port Pirie couple, Brodie Jarmyn and Danica Manfield, both 28, spend some quality time with Nelson. 6 October 2023. Picture Dean Martin

Voices muted as vote gets too hot to touch

The Advertiser’s Paul Ashenden has set out across the state to gauge where people stand on the referendum. Next stops, Port Augusta and Port Pirie.

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