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TASMANIA MOVES TO STEAL GATHER ROUND EXCLUSIVE
The sole surviving family member of an infamous triple murder that rocked the state has been freed from a court-imposed secrecy order. Sean Mitchell says the decade-long suppression, lifted late on Tuesday, stole his identity, voice and connection...
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A CITY IN SMELTDOWN
Hundreds of Whyalla workers will lose their jobs because the ageing blast furnace in the town’s beleaguerered steelworks has been shut down. Premier Peter Malinauskas on Monday announced efforts to restart the furnace – dormant since April – had been...
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HOW I WILL SHUT GATES
One Nation has vowed to return temporary skilled visas to 2017 levels and slash international student numbers to 115,000 a year in an immigration overhaul that would result in negative overseas migration for three years. The policy, to be announced on...
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NICKS TO NOTHING
The Adelaide Crows were shellshocked by a first-quarter Brisbane Lions blitz at the Gabba last night and never recovered, crashing out of the AFL finals in dismal fashion. Just a week after coach Matthew Nicks was feted by fans at Adelaide Oval when...
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SA LIBS FACE FEDERAL TAKEOVER IF ANTIC WINS
Insurance premiums have skyrocketed by more than $5000 a year for a group of Victor Harbor residents, who say they may be forced to move after part of the town was designated at risk of flooding. They are calling on the local council to help with...
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VICTIMS OF SLIME
A man who long had “access” to Magill Youth Training Centre has been charged with historical child sexual abuse against 29 alleged victims. The arrest marks a significant milestone in a decades-long struggle for accountability at the now-defunct...
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MALI VERSUS ALBO
Premier Peter Malinauskas has condemned the “madness” of a mainstream “political race to the bottom” to slash migration and attacked the Left’s “intense self-righteousness”, in a major speech challenging Anthony
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Aussie kids among the naughtiest
Australian students are among the worst behaved in the world, with bullying and classroom disruption as bad as Turkey, Lebanon and Poland, a new global snapshot shows. Just nine of the 91 countries reported less bullying than Australian students, with...
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FAT JABS FOR KILLER COOK
Triple murderer and infamous mushroom cook Erin Patterson is receiving taxpayer-funded Ozempic as she serves life behind bars.
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SUPER CASH SPLASH
Renters and mortgage holders could divert thousands of dollars from their super contribution into take-home pay, under a Pauline Hanson plan to combat the cost-of-living crisis.
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PROPERTY TRAP
South Australia has become the least affordable state to buy property in Australia – the first time any state has eclipsed NSW since 2011. A household on a median income of about $103,000 a year could afford just 7 per cent of all homes sold across SA...
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STUDENT SEX ASSAULT
A young boy at a northern suburbs Catholic school was allegedly bound, sexually assaulted, and threatened with death by a male classmate at the back of the oval. But the boy’s grandparents, his primary carers, claim the school has done no more than...
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ALBO’S HEALTH HEIST
Anthony Albanese’s proposed cuts to health insurance rebates for over-65s will likely bankrupt some private hospitals, push up the cost of pregnancy cover and drive people into aged care. A scathing analysis warns the federal government’s $3bn plan...
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SCHOOL FEE SPIRAL
South Australian private schools will be hit hard as the federal government strips more than $800m from more than 1000 private campuses nationwide by 2029. Independent Schools Australia chief executive Graham Catt said cuts to independent and Catholic...
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SECRET SERIAL KILLER FURY
Loved ones of the young men slain in the Family murders have launched a petition calling for public support to lift the longstanding veil of secrecy of the notorious unsolved crimes. Family members of Alan Barnes and Mark Langley, and the best friend...
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OH CROW YOU DON’T
The state’s top cop, who is also on the board of Adelaide Football Club, has defended using a specialist police security detail and a personal driver to deliver him to the Chairman’s Lounge to watch the Crows at the Oval.
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CLIENTS GET TWO DIGITS
Australians ripped off by corporate giant AMP are set for a tiny payout worth in many cases less than $100, with 75 per cent of a $29m class action settlement set to go to lawyers.
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BREAKING POINT
Six years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, a typical household is now paying substantially more for essentials that once made up the backbone of an ordinary monthly budget, with massive spikes in costs outpacing pay growth. Analysis of data...
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SEX ED SCANDAL
A female teacher taking a sexual health class at a western suburbs high school is on leave pending an Education Department investigation after claims she made “sexual thrusting motions” behind a male student.
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VALLEY OF DEATH
It was like an inland tidal wave, sweeping away lives and livelihoods in scenes that were scarcely believable, even as more and more footage emerged of the devastating tragedy that has unfolded in Nepal. At least 35 Australians, including two...
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STAR’S WATER TORTURE
Ex-AFL player Nathan Grima, who played in an SANFL premiership, coached Sturt and now local side Glenunga, was nearly killed by a waterborne infection after a routine knee operation.
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HE CHEATED BEFORE
Jules Neale has claimed her estranged husband, Brisbane Lions star Lachie, cheated on her with at least two different women in her first tell-all interview. Neale has told podcaster Adelle Petropoulos that discovering her husband’s affair with her...
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SA at war over cuts to health rebates
SA Health has bluntly warned the federal government its plan to slash private health insurance rebates for older Australians will further choke clogged public hospitals. SA Health chief executive Dr Robyn Lawrence has written a scathing submission to...
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SEALING THEIR DOOM
A seal found dead at Beachport has become the first mammal in Australia to test positive to bird flu. The Invasive Species Council warns bird flu could become an “extinctionlevel” catastrophe if it spreads to Kangaroo Island’s endangered sea lions.
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CRIME DOES PAY
Convicted murderer Wendie-Sue Dent is living off the proceeds of her crime in prison, having sold her victim’s motorhome from her cell for as much as $100,000, the Sunday Mail can reveal.
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HINDLEY STREET BENDER
At least two of the five Swans players embroiled in sexual assault allegations were spotted partying in a near all-night bender on Adelaide’s notorious night-life strip earlier this season. Sydney stars Isaac Heeney and Nick Blakey were seen by fans...
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I JUST WANT JUSTICE
The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted in a Melbourne hotel after being hired by Swans players to perform lap dances says: “All I care about is justice.” Speaking exclusively to The Advertiser, the exotic dancer says there were nine men in...
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BLOODSY IDIOTS
The five Sydney Swans players suspended amid allegations of a sexual assault at the Pullman East Melbourne hotel had taken exotic dancers up to a room for lap dances. The Swans on Wednesday announced they had banned Isaac Heeney, Chad Warner, Riley...
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BLACK SWANS
The sexual assault scandal engulfing Sydney emanated from an ugly dispute involving a female and one of the Swans players over touching that was “off limits”, sources have claimed. It comes as the Swans are weighing up a potential two-match suspension...
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SWANS’ SEXUAL ASSAULT PROBE
Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault involving Sydney Swans players at the Pullman East Melbourne hotel early yesterday, with the club considering standing them down. Isaac Heeney, Chad Warner, James Jordon and Riley Bice were among...
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The drought’s broken, but financial blows keep raining down on farmers Hanson: Let Aussies raid their super
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says Australians should be able to withdraw funds from their superannuation amid the cost-of-living crisis, describing the current system as “broken’’. Senator Hanson appeared to support lowering the 12.5 per cent...
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KID GENDER SECRET
The results of a review into a scandal in which 22 children were given gender-affirming treatment at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital without the mandated psychiatrist assessment will be kept secret. SA Health says that due to patient...
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THEY WERE WARNED
A union boss claims concerns about work practices at Mechanical Vegetation Solutions were raised with safety authorities four months before Josh ThomsonParkin tragically lost his life this week in an Adelaide Hills workplace accident.
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DYING TO BE THIN
Weight-loss drugs are suspected of being linked to the deaths of 62 Australians and severe side effects in 2800 other patients who suffered nausea, pancreatitis, suicidal thoughts and an eye condition that can cause blindness. In the UK, American...
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LOST TO THE SEA
The three-month-old boy who plunged from a Port MacDonnell cliff with his mother and sister could be lost to the sea forever. Police have called off the search for Lewis Wright’s remains after the bodies of Helena, 36, and his sister Hazel, 2, were...
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AFL TRANS CLEARANCE
Comedian John Cleese and tennis legend Martina Navratilova have spoken out on the AFL’s decision to allow a transgender Adelaide Footy League player to compete in women’s competition. Three clubs had lodged duty of care complaints.
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TIME FOR TEX TO HANG UP THE BOOTS
It was 3am on Wednesday last week when Taylor Walker realised it was time. After nearly six years of treating every season like it would be his last as an AFL player, it dawned on Walker that 2026 would be the final one of his career. There wasn’t...
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OUR ENEMY WITHIN
Nearly 300 potential terrorists are living in Australia, official figures show, and the number of people in deradicalisation programs has surged almost 20 per cent since last year’s Bondi attack. Extremism experts blame financial pressures for...
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FAMILY FREE PASS
Family members of students are making up nearly 30 per cent of migrants granted special visas to stay on in Australia after studies are complete. While Labor remains vexed by how to bring net migration down, the Sunday Mail can reveal One Nation is...
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SEX AND OUT
Ashleigh Gardner (left) and ex-wife Monica Wright. The ex-wife of Australian cricket vice-captain Ashleigh Gardner says she should be stripped of her leadership role after it was revealed she was having an affair with a junior teammate. Monica Wright,...
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STATE OF RAGE
A man was captured on horrifying CCTV abusing a bus driver before launching at the cowering worker and landing blow after blow, leaving him bloodied and with a broken jaw. The likes of Jake Dylan Morris’s cowardly attack is all too common – there were...
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AFL LEGAL SCANDAL
A Victorian AFL club has struck a secret deal requiring a current player who has suffered multiple concussions to assume all legal responsibility for any further on-field brain trauma. The club brokered the deal with one of its most vulnerable players...
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YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW
A courts administrator has used the Malinauskas government’s Crown Solicitor’s Office to criminally charge The Advertiser over naming a child sexual material offender working at an elite Adelaide girls’ school “too early”. It has sparked a...
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CELEBS GET SUNBURN VAN LIFE HINDLEY RULES VICTIM’S DREAMS PLAYER AGENT A RAPIST
Sports stars Kyle Chalmers, Michael Clarke and Brendan Fevola are among celebrities unwittingly drafted to spruik solar products that have been the subject of an unprecedented rise in complaints.
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FAT CAT PAY SPLURGE
Two of the state’s highestpaid public service bosses have been quietly handed huge pay rises of more than 12 per cent. Jon Whelan and Jackie Bray, pictured, are now paid a total of just under $132,000 a year more.
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KARL BARES HIS SOUL
Karl Stefanovic has bared all at an elite, male-only Adelaide event – hitting out at the “mad witches” who called for him to be cancelled, confirming he had a job offer from Kyle Sandilands and revealing how the Bondi massacre was “the start of the...
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MY DEEP FAKE HELL
The District Court is embroiled in scandal after staff generated a deepfake image of an Advertiser reporter being arrested and circulated it to colleagues. But Attorney-General Kyam Maher and the Courts Administration Authority initially refused to...
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CRIES FOR HELP
Helena Wright went to Mount Gambier police station just hours before she threw herself and her children off a cliff. Police later went to her home for a welfare check but she wasn’t there.
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WHY DID MUM FALL
Helena Wright, 36, pulled up at a clifftop in Port MacDonnell on Monday morning, left her car running and somehow fell to her death, along with her three-month-old son and her 23-month-old daughter. Police are baffled as to how the well regarded mother...
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STATE OF ORIGIN REIGNITES KNUCKLES HONOUR Shattered fishermen recover body of infant, mother from sea BABIES DIE IN MUM’S CLIFF PLUNGE Nurses bullying doctors SPACE BARING RACE ALL AT SPROUTS GAMES
Gawler Hospital doctors are being bullied by nurses and undermined by management, a union report has alleged. As well, it is claimed junior doctors are assigned up to 50 A mother yesterday plunged to her death with her toddler and baby in horror...
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LION’S DOG ACT
advertiser.com.au | COMM GAMES: P10-11, SPORT Monday, July 27, 2026 Brisbane Lions defender Ty Gallop could face MRO or tribunal punishment after violently shoving Mitch Georgiades’ face into the ground – in the Power star’s first game back after...
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HIDDEN HOME TAX TRAP
A shocking flaw in Labor’s rushed tax laws means grieving families could be hit with a hefty capital gains tax bill after the death of a loved one – without their assets being sold. Tax experts are sounding the alarm on the poorly drafted legislation,...
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CASE OF DEJA BOO
Collingwood star Isaac Quaynor says he remains a little confused about why he keeps being booed by Adelaide fans. The 26-year-old defender copped jeers from the Adelaide Oval crowd for the second time in 10 months – during the Magpies’ win on...
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SNOOP DOCS SPY ON MODS
SA Health is investigating eight staff accused of accessing Crows legend Tony Modra’s medical records as he recovered from lifethreatening injuries in Flinders Medical Centre.
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LABOR’S POWER FAILURE
Warnings of energy price hikes from Labor’s Adelaide national conference are being issued, as Anthony Albanese claims people feel “the economy is not working for them”.
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DEVILISH DREAMING
Tasmanian coach Ken Hinkley has declared his vast ambition for the Devils to win finals from their fifth AFL season as he made clear that his club’s recruiting raids would start with footy’s biggest stars. And Hinkley said his goal was to emulate...
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HOME DREAM TRASHED
An army veteran and his wife are suing a major regional racing club over claims of an illegal waste dump buried on their land. Their lawsuit alleges the rubbish included concrete, vet syringes and horseshoes.
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I WOKE UP IN A HORROR MOVIE
It was like any ordinary day for two best friends – shoe shopping, trying on make-up and laughing together about nothing in particular. Emma McLean and Lily Galbraith – best mates since year 7 – were visiting Brisbane from Adelaide for a childhood...
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TRADER FLAW
Hundreds of Australian investors are feared caught in a multimilliondollar scheme orchestrated by a bankrupt South Australian businessman whose collapsed companies bankrolled luxury cars and a planned $7.5m private jet. Administrators were appointed...
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POETIC INJUSTICE
An adulterous husband who conspired with his mistress to kill his wife is in a low-security prison, winning awards for his sad love poetry and colouring-in – for which the Correctional Services Department has apologised.
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CRASH CROW ON REPORT
Crows star Josh Worrell will face court after allegedly hitting a pedestrian last Friday. Worrell, 25, has been reported for aggravated driving without due care and failing to present to police quickly enough.
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PARENTS BOUNCED
Officials in Adelaide’s District Basketball league have issued 95 warning cards to spectators for insulting umpires, in an effort to combat abuse. Basketball SA initiated a trial in January in the league, issuing spectators cards as a first and final...
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CRICKET STAR ABUSED SON DUCKY TRIBUTE GOES VIRAL DEMON’S SECRET WEDDING
Social media giants continue to fail to protect children and young men from “devastating” sexual extortion, the nation’s online safety tsar says. eSafety Commissioner Julie SEAN FEWSTER REPORTS, PAGE 7 Inman Grant said there were “persistent gaps”...
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UNFIT FOR A KING
South Australia’s jewel in its tourism crown was secretly promoted to Buckingham Palace as a perfect spot for King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit during the 2024 royal tour, previously confidential records reveal.
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PRICES FALL OFF CLIFF MARRIAGE ALARM PLUS-ONES CAN BE OVER BALI FUELLING TOUGH RIB SURGERY COMEBACK
The federal government has repeatedly claimed house prices will not fall in the wake of its controversial budget – but analysis has revealed even Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s beachfront mansion has gone down in value. Exclusive new data reveals...
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CROW’S CRASH PROBE
Adelaide Crows star Josh Worrell was accused last night of colliding with a pedestrian as police investigate whether he might have accidentally run a red light while driving to football training. The defender, 25, allegedly struck the man as he...
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TRIPLE-O DEATH PROBE
Police have launched an investigation into the death of an elderly South Australian who, according to Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle, died after allegedly being unable to connect to triple-0 during Telstra’s nationwide outage. The person died at a...
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DIALLING A DISASTER
Telstra’s five-hour nationwide mobile network outage brought down train services – including The Ghan – closed cafes and left up to 333 triple-0 calls unanswered.
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STEEL WORKS BIDDER ‘A CHEAT’
The billionaire head of an Indian coal giant bidding to take over the Whyalla steelworks will face corruption charges in an Indian court next week. Naveen Jindal, who is both chairman of Jindal Power & Steel and a government MP, will face a court over...
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CHINA GOES BALLISTIC
China yesterday launched a nuclear-capable longrange missile carrying a dummy warhead from a submarine in the Pacific Ocean – hours after Australia signed a landmark defence treaty with Fiji. Beijing said the missile test was a “routine” training...
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GENERATION ONLYFANS
OnlyFans agents are approaching underage girls on social media, promising them riches and fame on the pornographic platform when they turn 18. Industry insider turned anti-porn crusader Victoria Sinis (pictured) has exposed the sleazy tactics used by...
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PM zaps Aussies with $23bn hike
Supplementary numbers Division 1 prize: $6,437,537.94 Total pool: $18,878,410.30 0, 7, 6, 3, 3, 2 Division 1 prize: $134,268.60 Total pool: $337,959.38 Australian households have been slugged nearly $23bn extra for electricity over the past four...
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PM’S SEX SECRETS
Anthony Albanese has made an eyebrow-raising reference to his sex life during a comedy podcast before a damaging Newspoll yesterday revealed Labor’s support has slumped across three key states. The Prime Minister’s appearance on Nikki Osborne’s new...
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LABOR PAINS
Controversial anti-abortion campaigner Dr Joanna Howe has been expelled from the Labor Party, accused of breaching party rules by urging voters to support nonLabor candidates. It comes after Premier Peter Malinauskas voted in favour of a Bill from...
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JEWEL STING
Adelaide Exchange Jeweller boss David Manning hired a private eye to nab a staff member now charged with theft after an industry associate saw her selling items at a pawn shop. Jewellery industry stalwart Nevenka Matias, 59, has appeared in court...
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