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Jade GailbergerFederal politics reporter

Jade Gailberger is a political reporter based in the Canberra Press Gallery. She has reported on federal politics since 2018, and has covered several state and federal elections. Jade’s previous roles include city editor and environment reporter at The Advertiser.

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EMBARGOED 5AM 19th FEB 19 . Rig and construction vessel (and fishing boat for scale): Equinor’s plans to use a rig with dynamic thrusters to maintain its position without anchoring. The rig will be supported by a construction vessel throughout the drilling program, which has a crane that can lift heavy equipment onto the seafloor in high waves.

Mayors trust umpire on ‘reckless’ Bight drilling plan

Environmental groups have labelled a Norwegian company’s plans for oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight as “insane” and “reckless” — but local mayors feel differently.

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Monday 18th February 2019Tanya Plibersek with Kate Ellis after her Valedictory speech in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Gary Ramage

Tears and call to action as Kate Ellis quits Canberra

A rallying call for women to aspire to parliament and a parting plea for action to save the River Murray have marked an emotional public farewell by Adelaide MP Kate Ellis.

SA News

‘Excess extraction’ blamed for avoidable Darling fish deaths

A report on mass fish deaths in the Darling River has called for better management to allowed better flows but a Federal Minister says that’s impossible unless the scientists know a rain dance.

SA News

Aerial Suburb straight down view Solar Panels on Rooftops creating solar energy Climate change community summertime green Picture: iStock

Labor’s house tax blow for SA as Coalition surges in poll

About 88,000 South Australians would be hit hard by Labor’s proposed housing taxes, Treasury modelling shows — it comes as a new poll shows the gap has again narrowed between the Coalition and Labor.

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Adelaide Zoo's Giant Panda Fu Ni (Lucky Girl) is up as she is on heat at this is a method of sending out a pheromone message from on high. (AAP/Emma Brasier)Wang Wang and Fu Ni are AustralasiaÕs only breeding pair of Giant Pandas.Wang Wang (Net Net) was born on 31 August 2005 and Fu Ni (Lucky Girl) on 23 August 2006 both at Woolong Giant Panda Research Centre, China and moved to Adelaide Zoo together in November 2009.Fu Ni is intelligent, playful and loves interacting with zoo keepers, most likely as she was a twin and therefore partially hand reared. She won a silver medal for the Most Popular Panda Outside of China in a popular online competition. Fu Ni is smaller than Wang Wang and has a Mohawk-like cowlick in between her ears. Fu Ni loves any form of enrichment that involves a food reward, especially apple, pear and panda cake.

PM won’t panda to Adelaide Zoo icons

The future of Adelaide Zoo’s top attraction, pandas Wang Wang and Fu Ni, has been dismissed as a low priority by the Prime Minister.

SA News

Southern right whale research in the Great Australian Bight - credit the photographs as Great Australian Bight Right Whale Study - Curtin UniversitySUNDAY MAIL ONLY - EMBARGOED UNTIL SUNDAY JULY 10TH

Oil industry launches ad blitz to change minds on Bight drilling

Drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight will be scrutinised in Federal Parliament this week as the petroleum industry launches an advertising blitz of locals supporting the controversial proposal.

SA News

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses media at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. Morrison says his government will reopen a mothballed island detention camp in anticipation of a new wave of asylum seekers arriving by boat after Parliament passed legislation that would give sick asylum seekers easier access to mainland hospitals. (AP Photos/Rod McGuirk)

Detention centre to reopen as medical transfers Bill passes

Christmas Island detention centre will be reopened to house new boat arrivals and asylum seekers that may come to Australia to receive medical treatment, as the Federal Government reacts to advice from security officials.

National

PM Scott Morrison holding a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

PM’s new plan to ‘stop the boats’

Scott Morrison has taken the extraordinary step of reopening the Christmas Island detention centre, but the territory’s CEO says he was never consulted.

SA News

nicolle flint in Question Time in the House of Representatives chamber, Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

GetUp rallies troops for attack on SA’s most marginal seat

GetUp will tonight rally its members in Hindmarsh in preparation for its campaign to oust hard-right Liberal MP Nicolle Flint from the South Australian seat of Boothby.

SA News

Centre Alliance member for Mayo Rebekha Sharkie seconds Independent Member for Indi Cathy McGowan's National Integrity (Parliamentary Standards) Bill in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, December 3, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Labor woos crossbench as Greens reject asylum seeker medivac Bill

SA MP Rebekha Sharkie says she might support Labor’s asylum seeker medical evacuation laws but the Opposition Bill appears doomed to fail after the Greens declared they would oppose it.

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