It’s all about Quality of life for Louanne
AT the age of 14, Louanne Johns founded a support group to help feed South Australians in need. Three decades later she’s still volunteering.
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This doctor has a very bright vision for kids
JAMES Muecke has a humanitarian spirit. If the Norwood ophthalmologist got his way, he would work himself out of a job and some of the most developing countries in the world would all have their own eye surgeons.
Judo coaches help to give bullying the chop
PAUL Reeves says Australia’s first special-needs judo club is giving children a fighting chance against bullies and low self-esteem.
Mark punched his wife — and saved her life
SUSPENDED from a power line with hundreds of volts flowing through her body, 30-year-old Mark Olds’ quick thinking saved his wife’s life.
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Call out for our true blue heroes
Calling all heroes great and small: The 15th annual Pride of Australia awards are open for nominations. Who do you know who deserves to be in the company of these past winners?
Production car lap record at The Bend
Production car lap record at The Bend
Adelaide’s lunchtime news update — August 14, 2019
Adelaide’s lunchtime news update — August 14, 2019
F/A 18 Hornet fly past over Adelaide
F/A 18 Hornet fly past over Adelaide
Rucci’s Roast No 3 2019
SA’s humble heroes honoured
A charity worker, football coach, pioneering surgeon, Australia’s most prominent Aboriginal educator and a man who saved his mate from death in a hot spring in the Outback are the 2018 SA Pride of Australia winners.
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