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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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PolicingNation

Police officer Allie Coad, outside the Adelaide City Watch House, had an offender spit in her face giving her oral herpes.

Officer awaits possible ‘assault’ charge

Furious SA police are nervously waiting to see whether one of their own will face assault charges.

David Penberthy

CFMEUNation

CFMEU protest at Parliament .Pic Annette Dew

Union accused of GoPro goading

Militant South Australian CFMEU officials have started wearing GoPro cameras to provoke on-site confrontations.

David Penberthy

PenfoldsNation

James Halliday tastes a Grange at Penfolds Magill Estate. Penfolds chief winemaker Peter Gago hosted a tasting of almost the entire back vintage of Penfold's high-end wines including Granges from almost every year - it's the most valuable and rare collection of wine ever opened in one hit in Australia.

Tasting rewards patient type

Penfolds’ eighth edition of The Rewards of Patience is a roadmap to our best wines.

David Penberthy

Masked brothersNation

‘Moral insult to survivors’

Adelaide’s ‘masked brothers’ have accused the Catholic Church of re-victimising survivors of abuse over the George Pell case.

David Penberthy

Church reactionNation

Archbishop Mark Coleridge and Brisbane Catholic Education Executive Director Pam Betts present Seton College teacher Kathryn Flint of Seven Hills one of the top honours at the Excellence in Learning in Teaching in a Secondary School awards.

Prayers for victims … and the guilty Prayers for victims and guilty

Australia’s bishops accept the Court of Appeal’s decision while the Vatican says Pell is entitled to go to the High Court.

Rachel Baxendale and David Penberthy

Inquirer

One-time use only and the images will not be archived. All pics will be credited. Captions to be run in full. Clif (Pugh) adorned Judith with body paint when she and Dunstan attended the theatre in Melbourne, June 1972. (Courtesy of Steven Cheng)

From marital bed to mistress

The day after Dunstan and his estranged wife sold their home, he began an affair almost immediately with Judith Pugh, the partner of one of Australia’s best portrait artists.

David Penberthy

Inquirer

A new biography on Don Dunstan has shed new light on his time as SA premier.

Sordid affairs of Don Dunstan

In the space of a few years in the 1970s, Don Dunstan separated from his first wife and had at least four passionate affairs. All while he was South Australian premier.

David Penberthy

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