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Rebecca DiGirolamo has covered news in South Australia for more than 20 years, focusing on social justice issues and the remarkable ability of South Australians harnessing the power of humanity to drive change. Major news campaigns have included women’s health, child protection, poverty, disability and elder abuse, and asylum seekers.

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Jack Mcilvar with his father James Mcilvar (L), and brother Brad Mcilvar (R) recovering at home in Hallett Cove, SA. Jack 23 is lucky to be alive after being diagnosed with a severe bone marrow disorder that leaves him completely without red and white blood cells. he needed white cell transfusions form his dad James and his brother Brad to survive. Photographer Emma Brasier

Dad and brother help Jack face fight for life

He should’ve died several times but he didn’t. Jack, 22, from Hallett Cove, has become the pin-up boy for surviving his rare blood cancer, thanks to his family.

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Annie Smith's social media posts in the years before her death regularly referenced the loss of her parents and her pet dogs.

Annie’s posts reveal years of grief for lost ‘angels’

Facebook posts by neglect victim Annie Smith in the years before her “disgusting and degrading” death reveal her loneliness, devotion to her pets and sadness over the loss of her parents.

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Commercial. Cairns Community Legal Centre's Disability Discrimination Legal Service.

Shocking delay on disability assault reports

A minister was not told of an assault on a disability client in a state-run home for six months, one of many cases that have shocked advocates.

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Hands across the Sand at Brighton Beach, S.A. Crowds gathered at Brighton Beach in S.A. to join hands along the beach and paddle out to a model oil rig to protest the drilling of oil off the Great Australian Bite by Norwegian mining company, Equinor. (AAP/Emma Brasier)

Boothby Baby Boomers’ growing green guilt

Baby Boomer green guilt in the state’s most marginal seat could explain a massive voter commitment for the political party most prepared to stop oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight.

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G-FLOWS project leader and DEW senior hydrogeologist Adrian Costar and senior geologist Dr Carmen Krapf successfully striking new groundwater in the first water well into the palaeovalley near Fregon - picture DEW

Ancient water may breathe life into SA outback

Ancient water gushing under the South Australian desert has been found with salinity levels low enough to support economic development for indigenous communities and pastoralists.

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NEWS ADV Southern Expressway rock throwing presser, Minister of Police Corey Wingard explains the erection of temporary rock throwing screens on the Honeypot Road Bridge over the Southern Expressway, Hackham. Wednesday 18 July 2018. (AAP Image/Russell Millard) NO ARCHIVING

Clubs devastated as female sports funding axed

A MULTIMILLION program aimed at bringing sporting facilities for women up to scratch has been scrapped, leaving clubs ‘devastated’ and sparking calls for its reinstatement.

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