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Roy EcclestonFreelance journalist

Roy has worked for The Advertiser, The Courier-Mail, The Age, The Australian and The Bulletin; and written for Time magazine and The Times of London. He has covered two Olympic Games, worked for five years in the federal press gallery, and from 2000-2005 was The Australian’s Washington correspondent.

Roy Eccleston

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Aged care nurse Sharon Lawrence poses at Largs Bay jetty Tuesday February,16,2021.Picture Mark Brake

‘They don’t feel like they are real people’

Nurse Sharon Lawrence says staff cuts in aged care mean the elderly are being dehumanised. She says they need mandatory staffing levels –as childcare has.

SA News

A female nurse consoles a senior patient at home, aged care generic

Most aged-care residents believe needs are not met

An “alarming” report for the aged-care royal commission has found less than a quarter of the people in residential care feel fully taken care of.

SA News

Annie Butler federal secretary Australia Nursing and Midwifery Federation she can talk about the fact nurses in aged care get paid 15% less than in hospitals and how there are no ratios of nurses to residents and what needs to be done to fix the problems.Picture:Rob Leeson.

Nurses demand more numbers in face of shocking elder neglect

Marginal government seats will be targeted with a “shocking tale of neglect” of elderly Australians in aged care.

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Former Finks MC members Tyson and Matt Ward (sitting), Henry Keogh and Arcofyre Founder and CEO Kirby Brownlow at the Old Adelaide Jail on November 25, 2020 in Adelaide. Picture Matt Turner.

Ex-bikies quit prisoner help group after bitter row

Two ex-Finks plan to set up their own organisation – the Ward Brothers – after joining Henry Keogh in quitting Arcofyre, a group set up to help rehabilitate prisoners.

SA News

WARNING EMBARGOED 10PM 25th JAN 2021 . NO PRIOR USE . FEES APPLY . NO RE-USE . Former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill poses for a portrait in Perth, Friday, January 22, 2021. Former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill has received Australia Day Honours for distinguished service to the people and Parliament of South Australia, particularly as Premier, and to early childhood and tertiary education. (AAP Image/Richard Wainwright) NO ARCHIVING

We should teach long before school: Weatherill

Former Premier Jay Weatherill – recognised as an AO in Australia Day honours – says learning from birth onwards will set up young minds better for the future.

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The most inspiring South Australians for 2020, Cooper Spillane, Julie Ann Finney,Eloise Hall, Nicola Spurrier, John Glatz, Scott Penhall with his wife Anna, Isobel Marshall, Brad Ebert at Elder Park on December 10, 2020. Picture by Matt Turner.

Our inspiration: 10 stories of courage and integrity

In a year like 2020, we all need to be inspired. By people who care. People who fight the odds. People who break barriers. People like these.

Coronavirus

Flinders University Professor Nikolai Petrovsky on August 19, 2020. Prof Petrovsky is chairman and research director of Vaxine, has developed a promising new COVID-19 vaccine candidate, called COVAX-19ÃÂ®. Picture Matt Turner.

‘Still time’ for SA-made coronavirus vaccine

An SA-made COVID vaccine would be closer if the federal government didn’t try to pick a winner, says a Flinders professor.

VideoSA Weekend

Bikie brothers on road to redemption after life of violence

Former bikie brothers Matt and Tyson Ward have opened up about their life of violence, their time in prison and their journey to make amends for all the pain and bad decisions.

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Henry Keogh at the Old Adelaide Jail on November 25, 2020 in Adelaide. Henry was convicted of murder but was eventually released twenty years later on appeal. Picture Matt Turner.

Henry Keogh: The poison I’ll never drink

Former prison inmate Henry Keogh says a new group of ex-prisoners can help cut the rates of repeat offenders crowding our prisons.

Arts

Leading South Australian artist Robert Hannaford with his exhibition called Robert Hannaford at the Art Gallery of SA which are self-portraits spanning 50 years. Pic: Tricia Watkinson

How SA’s new statue of the Queen almost didn’t happen

An acclaimed SA artist has created a new life-size sculpture of the Queen, to be installed in the heart of Adelaide. See it here and learn the fascinating back story.

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