THE Chinese have moved to buy into Australia’s booming uranium industry, with steelmaker Sinosteel yesterday applying to develop a $160 million mine in the South Australian outback, posing a further challenge to foreign investment controls.
SO, it’s all Kevin Rudd’s fault. Nick Xenophon, the former No Pokies MP who carved out a political career by being a thorn in the side of state governments in South Australia, and is now honing his act in Canberra, revealed yesterday it was the Prime Minister who had inspired him to jump to federal politics.
THE Government will offer to buy out the water entitlements of entire irrigation communities as Kevin Rudd moved yesterday to appease growing outrage at the plight of the lower Murray River.
KEVIN Rudd has announced an independent audit of the entire Murray-Darling Basin system to save the lower lakes.
THE tipping point of the Murray’s survival is about to be reached, with South Australia confirming preparations to flood the river’s stricken lower lakes with seawater.
THE new independent senator will wield great power and hopes to make a difference.
UP to a third of Australian women continue to drink alcohol during pregnancy, despite growing awareness that it puts the unborn child at risk.
BRAD Shannon knows Adelaide’s dirtiest secret. It involves a man called Mother Goose and what happens at night in Veale Gardens.
Ted Mullighan has lifted the lid on decades of institutionalised pedophilia in South Australia
AUSTRALIA’S Labor governments have put off critical decisions on the nation’s infrastructure for another 12 months.
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