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David Penberthy is a columnist with The Advertiser and Sunday Mail, and also co-hosts the FIVEaa Breakfast show. He’s a former editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Mail and news.com.au.

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exclusiveVisual Arts

Hans Heysen Painting.Jim Elder with the hidden Hans Heysen painting. The owner in her 90Ãs was having it reframed when they discovered another Hans Heysen painting hidden behind it.Thursday May 20 2021 Pic Roy VanDerVegt

Secret layer reveals $20k hidden classic

For more than 50 years, Garda Mollison and her late parents had no idea about the extraordinary secret lurking behind their treasured painting.

David Penberthy

exhumationNation

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos 19th May 2021: South Australian police exhume the Somerton Man at West terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, who was found dead in 1948 and has never been identified. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Kelly Barnes

Body of evidence in bid to solve mystery

Almost 73 years after he was found dead sitting upright in a suit and tie on a suburban Adelaide beach, The Somerton Man may finally be ready to give up his secrets.

David Penberthy

exclusiveIndigenous

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 01: South Australian Police Commissioner Grant Stevens looks on during the daily COVID-19 press conference at the Stag Hotel on December 01, 2020 in Adelaide, Australia. Businesses in South Australia will now have customers check in via QR code to aid with contact tracing. COVID-19 restrictions have eased across South Australia as coronavirus cases continue to decline. From 1 December the border restriction with Victoria will be lifted, allowing free travel from that state into South Australia for the first time since March. Capacity limits for licensed premises will be lifted, as will restrictions on gatherings. (Photo by Kelly Barnes/Getty Images)

Top cop rejects repeat violent offender exile

South Australian Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has rejected coronial recommendations that violent and repeat offenders be banned from living in the state’s sprawling APT lands.

David Penberthy

vaccinesPolitics

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos May 12, 2021: Adelaide vaccine researchers, including PHD student Lukas Gerstweiler, pictured at Adelaide University, will form a partnership between BioChina and the University that will create a vaccine manufacturing plant in Thebarton, South Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Naomi Jellicoe

Homegrown mRNA jabs closer to reality

Australia is moving closer to achieving self-reliance in COVID vaccine production, with the federal government confirming it is looking at providing financial support for an mRNA vaccine production plant in Adelaide.

David Penberthy

ExclusiveNation

A shot at vaccine self-reliance

Australia could achieve COVID-19 vaccine self-reliance within six months and produce enough to inoculate the entire nation under a partnership between BioCina and the University of Adelaide.

David Penberthy

travelNation

Destination SA.Simon and Laura Burley of Coast and Co, a winery tourism business at Silver Sands beach.Australians are using their half-price tourism flights to head to South Australia as a destination second only to the typical Gold Coast.Thursday May 6 2021 Pic Roy VanDerVegt

SA boom has even the Premier baffled

Long the butt of derisive gags by eastern states types, something weird is happening in Adelaide.

David Penberthy

ExclusiveIndigenous

30/4/21. SA's first mass Vaccination clinic opens at Wayville - Premier Steven Marshall Picture: Keryn Stevens

SA to adopt first Indigenous Voice

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has escalated plans to create the nation’s first Indigenous Voice to parliament.

David Penberthy

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA NewsWire Photos - MARCH 17 2021: Portrait with Australian politician Senator Andrew Bragg in his office at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Moderates push for voice referendum

Senior Liberals are uniting around a campaign for the Morrison government to enshrine an Indigenous voice to parliament.

David Penberthy

exclusiveLegal Affairs

Eileen Culleton sister of rape/murder victim Anne Marie Culleton, Byorn Bay. Thrursday 29th April 2021. Photo Danielle Smith

Call for mandatory life without parole

The pending re-release of a brutal and remorseless killer who raped and murdered a Darwin woman in 1988 has sparked fresh national debate over mandatory sentencing.

David Penberthy

Film

Mortal Kombat.Frame Creative, brothers Sam, Tim and Simon Pearce played a creative part in the new movie released, Mortal Combat. Pictured in their studio.Thursday 22 April 2021 Pic Roy VanDerVegt

Creative brothers in the frame for Hollywood

Australia’s COVID-fuelled cinema renaissance is creating exciting new opportunities for small local creative businesses to crack the big time in Hollywood.

David Penberthy

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