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WAR ZERO’S DARK HEART
Joel Richard Green, 50, is definitely a brute who admits he is a choker, assaulter and trespasser. Less clear is whether his claim to be a decorated US Marine and war hero is true. Green appeared in court in full US Marine dress uniform on Tuesday,...
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A PERFECT MURDER
Accused parent killer Raelene Polymiadis told an expartner insulin was the “perfect murder weapon” because it was naturally found in the body and was undetectable, a court heard. She denies she poisoned her parents.
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Emergency in hospitals
Hospital emergency patient numbers have spiked more than 50 per cent in 15 years, shocking official data reveals. Despite a record $11.4bn in annual taxpayer cash and 700 extra hospital beds, crushing health system strains are today laid bare for the...
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ULTIMATE GAME DAY 8-PAGE GUIDE
Fans Lachie Earl and Charlotte Parker at Sportys Bar in the Arkaba Hotel, at Fullarton. Picture: Dean Martin
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Tay Tay makes history YOU’RE INVITED Sacked APY boss in legal threat
Taylor Swift has become the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The soon-to-be-married star, 36, broke the record previously held by Carole Bayer Sager, who was 43 when she joined in 1987. Stevie Wonder remains the...
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GATHER TOWN
Reigning Gather Round Premier Peter Malinauskas has inked three more years and a parade of stars through the CBD, amid a push to make Adelaide the permanent home of the festival of footy. Speaking alongside AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon at...
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Fund to fire the ‘liar’ races to $1m
One Nation raised over $1m in less than 24 hours in a tit-fortat fundraising appeal that asked supporters to donate $29 in a bid to “fire the liar’’ Anthony Albanese. Leader Pauline Hanson said she was blown away by the outpouring of support and said...
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CONSULTANTS CASHING IN
Taxpayer-funded spending on external consultants or contractors has ballooned to more than $4m a day despite the state’s public service booming to record numbers, official figures reveal.
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Beatrice, Eugenie’s royal return
Beatrice and Eugenie have broken cover to attend their biggest royal event since their father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest. Peter Phillips, the son of Princess Anne, tied the knot with nurse Harriet Sperling in a romantic ceremony at All Saints...
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ORANGE CRUSH
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has shrugged off criticism of her age, saying it’s the X factor driving her success, as she warned “we’re going to end up a Third World nation” if Labor wins another election.
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10-game ban for footy thug act
An Adelaide Footy League player’s season could be close to over after receiving a major suspension for an ugly late hit on an opponent. Scotch Old Collegians C Grade player Colby Whitbourne has been banned for 10 games for the incident involving a...
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$53b album of greatest hits
State debt will explode to $53.65bn for the first time with the blowout to fund the $15.4bn South Rd tunnels and the $3.2bn new Women’s and Children’s Hospital. In handing down the state budget yesterday, Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis insisted South...
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THE Exclusive RATE HEIST
The $40m redevelopment of Jetty Rd will bite Holdfast Bay Council residents who face the highest residential rate rises of any metropolitan council. The coastal council’s proposed 6.6 per cent average residential rate rise is the result of an...
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TAKING THE MICKEY
Doctors claimed trips to Disneyland, Bali wellness retreats, bags and watches worth up to $23,000 on a $64m taxpayer-funded “professional development” fund. The Independent Commission Against Corruption has placed the fund under scrutiny.
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BUSH MATTERS
The largest conversation between the bush and powerbrokers starts today, as News Corp Australia launches its 2026 Bush Summit campaign. Regional Australians can have their say on issues that matter most in a new poll, which will help frame debate at...
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FROM THE HEART
Eddie Betts was always the man for the big occasion – and yesterday the Crows legend brought sheer joy to a community that needed it. Betts and fellow AFL stars Willie Rioli, Darryl White, Ben Dixon and Joel Selwood united at the Team Alice Community...
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RUNDLE ST BLUES
Retailers are moving out of one of Adelaide’s premier shopping strips in droves, leaving behind a “decomposing” stretch of empty shops and creating a record 10 per cent vacancy rate. There are 19 vacant or closed retail and hospitality spaces on...
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DON’T FEAR OUR BOTS
Chinese people working in Australia are “not spies”, one of the nation’s most senior diplomats has declared while promoting the widespread use of Chinese-built humanoid robots in Aussie homes.
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RENT RISE JIMFLATION
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ negative gearing and capital gains tax changes will push rents up by as much as $477 a year by the end of the decade, according to new modelling that predicts the contentious reforms will exacerbate the nation’s housing crisis.
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THANKS FOR BRINGING MY ISIS BRIDE DAUGHTER HOME
Australia does not have enough fuel, bombs and soldiers to defend itself, a scathing report has found. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has sounded an alarm as the Iran war, Russia’s increasing aggression in Europe, and China’s open...
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THANKS FOR NOTHING
South Australians will be the only ones copping a hit to their default energy prices, with reductions in other states. Flat rate residential power prices will jump by $33 (1.4 per cent) under the finalised Default Market Offer put forward by the...
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LEGEND
Neale Daniher excited footy fans with his feats as an AFL player and coach – then inspired them with his brave battle against motor neurone disease. The 2025 Australian of the Year has been remembered as a courageous fighter after he died yesterday,...
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TRAVISTY
Antimo Iannella Cricket superstar Travis Head and his wife Jessica have been deluged with vile social media abuse from trolls following an on-field clash with Indian legend Virat Kohli. The Adelaide couple’s Instagram accounts – and even their wedding...
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SCAR WARS
A UK cosmetician to the stars, whose clients include 1990s pop star Peter Andre and TV personality Kerry Katona, has been served with a $1m South Australian lawsuit over his signature product. Warren Lee Millington and his company have been accused of...
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SKI CRASH MUM JAILED
A mother of two has been jailed for being drunk when she drove a high-powered speedboat at Mannum and ran over a swimmer – causing horrendous injuries. Amy Michelle Lohf, 44, looked shocked when she was taken silently from the dock into the cells as...
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ULTIMATE INSULT
Veterans Affairs Minister Matt Keogh has spent more on a return flight for his wife than the annual travel budget he axed for the grieving parents of war hero Cameron Baird. The WA federal MP claimed $2881.40 of taxpayers’ money to jet wife Annabel...
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LIDDY LOOSE
Ex-magistrate Peter Liddy will be released from prison into home detention until a court determines if the monstrous pedophile can control his sexual desires. Liddy (pictured) will enter house arrest in 15 days with an electronic monitoring tag.
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OK, SEE THE EVIL
This picture of quadruple “Bodies in the Barrels” killer James Spyridon Vlassakis was more than a quarter of a century in the making. In a seismic decision on Tuesday, the state’s highest court revoked orders that have banned publication of Vlassakis’s...
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POSSUM TRAGICS
A Possum Park protester threatened to reveal the home address of Peter Malinauskas in an “extreme” act over the felling of trees for the revamped North Adelaide Golf Course. Police are now monitoring social media activity, as protest organiser and...
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REV UP OUR CAR INDUSTRY
Anthony Albanese wants to reboot the Australian car industry nearly a decade after the Holden factory closed, amid a global surge in EV sales. It comes as Aussies aged 30-45 lead a major new push to buy Australian.
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WE DON’T TRUST YOU
Most Australians think Anthony Albanese broke a promise not to touch negative gearing and that federal budget changes should have been put to the people at an election. A Freshwater Strategy poll has found the budget has gone down like “a lead balloon”.
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SUPER SEVEN
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has lauded Australia becoming a member of an “elite group” of seven countries by acquiring nuclear-powered submarines to counter China’s unprecedented military build-up. The Advertiser’s Defending Australia summit...
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BOY SAVED BY A GENIUS
Elle Halliwell sobbed as her son Tor, 9, met Adelaide University and SAHMRI Professor Timothy Hughes. Almost a decade ago, Elle was diagnosed with cancer, and 48 hours later discovered she was pregnant. Doctors in Sydney advised her to terminate her...
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BACK IN FRACK
A ban on gas fracking in the state’s South-East will be axed by Premier Peter Malinauskas, who says the Iran war has shown Australia has “to take energy security and sovereignty seriously”.
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CHALMER GEDDON
Home raider Jim Chalmers will abolish negative gearing on future purchases and replace the 50 per cent capital gains tax offset with inflation indexation in a spectacular broken election promise. The Treasurer repeatedly blamed the war in Iran as he...
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ANIKA SKYWALKER
Under-fire Albanese government minister Anika Wells hosted a meeting with a South Australian minister at his wife’s 40th birthday party and claimed the business class trip on taxpayers. The Communications Minister’s office had reportedly declined to...
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DOLLARS AND SENSE
Peter Malinauskas is demanding a surge in defence spending and skilled migration – slamming the current “regressive, ill-informed debate about migration” and acknowledging this puts him “out on the political cliff”.
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CASH TO SPY FOR IRAN
Iranian-linked and state-tolerated spy networks are using an “audacious” Telegram campaign to recruit Aussie informants to monitor the Israeli diaspora, gather intelligence and “co-operate” with the regime for a “handsome reward”.
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SAM’S PAIN
Adelaide Crows grand final ruckman Sam Jacobs has opened up about a succession of tragedies that has shaped his identity. Jacobs, 38, has spoken publicly for the first time about the deaths of six significant figures in his life – including his...
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BRIDE & SNEAK
ISIS bride Janai Safar, who once said she “never regretted” living under Islamic State, was arrested last night at Sydney Airport, where she was taken through a side exit to a police car. The scenes contrasted with Ben Roberts-Smith’s dramatic tarmac...
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DADKILLING CRACK MONSTER
David Andrew Eldridge made a video saying he had to “kill myself or kill my father” and described himself as “crack monster” on a mission to “save the world” after he allegedly killed his dad Robert.
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HOME WRECKERS
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has taken her most aggressive swipe at the government for fuelling inflation through high spending, warning Australians were becoming “poorer” and headed for a “very, very tough time”.
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LORD OF THE LIES
Jim Chalmers has proudly boasted he could backflip on a pledge not to raise property taxes because his government had already broken another election promise. The Treasurer’s confession came as a real estate expert warned that winding back capital...
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OUR KIDS, OUR FUTURE
Top doctors have warned the future of Australian children is at a critical crossroads and in dire need of worldleading medical research to reverse a situation where an entire generation’s health is now, for the first time, worse than their...
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GIVE HOLLY A CHANCE
Balaklava’s Holly Zerk, 9, has suffered a relapse of a killer cancer, but the treatment she desperately needs is not available in Australia.
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Delta born to try on big stage
Delta Goodrem says she was courted for years to represent Australia at Eurovision Song Contest – but the timing now felt right. The popular singer-songwriter told The Watchlist the stars had finally aligned for her to perform at this year’s event in...
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STOLEN BY A MONSTER
Snatched from her bed and allegedly taken by red-eyed known criminal Jefferson Lewis, five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby endured horrors before her body was found on Thursday near where she went missing in Alice Springs. Last night, Lewis was attacked...
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DEADLY DIVE
Horrifying footage shows a light plane turn sharply sideways before plunging into a hangar at Parafield Airport, sparking an inferno which killed two people in the aircraft and injured ten others. One of the injured was fighting for life after the DA42...
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RAPISTS’ PARADISE
Forensic mental health patients who have committed violent crimes, including rape and murder, are being inadequately supervised in the community, with a medical body warning someone “will be hurt” due to understaffing.
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KNEES UP FOR KILLER
A double murderer will get weekly insurance payments after an Adelaide recycling plant unsuccessfully sought to use Michael Francis Loader’s killer past to convince a judge he had lied about injuring his knee.
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‘WHACK JOB’
A defiant Donald Trump has survived a suspected third assassination attempt, which was foiled in dramatic scenes in Washington DC. Teacher Cole Allen, armed with multiple weapons, stormed the event at the Washington Hilton, forcing the evacuation of...
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COPS’ GRAVE SECRET
SA Police is expected to be served a summons ordering it to hand over secret internal investigation documents to a court over allegations a sergeant was bullied by a superior officer before taking his own life.
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MONSTER OF THE MOUNT
A Mount Gambier pedophile father has been jailed for at least three decades for the horrific sex abuse of many children, including his own one-month-old baby and a child with a disability. The children were filmed for his depraved pleasure. The...
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‘WE’VE CRIED A RIVER’
Adelaide chef Chris Jarmer, who also cooks for the Crows, has shared his family’s heartbreak after the sudden death of his nephew Alexander Philogene, 21, from meningococcal disease while studying in Europe.
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REAL LIFE HOMEWARD HOUND
Pooped pup Rupert is resting after a month on the run with his staffy mate Finni in a real life Homeward Bound adventure on a Murraylands island.
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A DOG’S BREAKFAST
Port Adelaide star Zak Butters was let off a fine over alleged umpire abuse last night because of a “miscarriage of justice.” In bizarre scenes, a barking labradoodle owned by the club’s lawyer interrupted proceedings, before the controversial case...
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I’M NO WAR CRIMINAL
Former SAS soldier Ben RobertsSmith has slammed the AFP’s decision to arrest him in front of his family as an “unnecessary spectacle”, as he vows to fight war crime charges.
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ROAD TO DEBT RUIN
SA’s growing debt is making state budget repair “a clear priority” as interest rates rise and costly health system pressures intensify, a top-level economic report has revealed. Major infrastructure projects are fuelling the debt.
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RENTAL MELTDOWN
Adelaide is the mainland capital with the most to lose from a capital gains tax shake-up, with half the city in the firing line and a fullblown rental crisis on the horizon if CGT is slashed in the federal budget.
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WE LOVE YOU FOREVER
The heartbroken wife of Jaryd Dawson, the older brother of Adelaide Crows captain Jordan Dawson, has shared the final photo of her husband and their baby son – taken just two days before his shock death. Jessica Dawson posted : “Now my heart is...
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DAWSON’S HEARTACHE
The older brother of Adelaide Crows captain Jordan Dawson has been remembered as a beloved member of the Robe community following his sudden death. The body of Jaryd Dawson, 35, himself an accomplished footballer and building company owner, was found...
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NO SELFIE CONTROL
SA Police’s own road safety boss, Superintendent Shane Johnson, will face an internal investigation after leaked photos to The Advertiser show him breaking the same traffic rules he is in charge of enforcing.
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COURTING CONTROVERSY
The wife of one of the state’s top judges is facing allegations she sent confidential case files to her husband while working at a leading law firm.
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PUMP THE GAS, PM
The head of Adelaidebased mining giant Santos has slammed slow approval processes for gas developments, saying they need to be “more reliable and more workable” if Australia is to boost its energy security. Kevin Gallagher’s call to stop legal...
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VISION OF BRUTALITY
The shocking moment a drunk thug stabs a stranger on a popular CBD night-life strip has been revealed on CCTV footage for the first time. The vision – released to the Sunday Mail by Courts SA – shows the victim eating takeaway food with a friend on...
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SCRUTINY ‘LIKE MURDER’
Steven Trigg has compared the scrutiny he received at the height of the Adelaide Crows’ Kurt Tippett saga with someone facing murder charges. Mr Trigg was the club’s chief executive for 13 years before leaving in 2014 after receiving a six-month ban...
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GATHER ROUND RIVAL
South Australian businessman and Sydney Swans chairman Andrew Pridham wants the AFL to combine Opening Round with a second Gather Round next year, where all 18 clubs would open the 2027 season in NSW and Queensland. Mr Pridham said AFL bosses already...
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GIVE US THRILLS, DILLS
Jacinta Round An 8-year-old boy named Tucker, brother of a sibling in the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, asked AFL boss Andrew Dillon what every South Australian wants to know: “Is Gather Round staying in SA?”
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WAR HERO CAGED
War hero Ben RobertsSmith was in a cell last night after he was arrested and denied bail on five warcrime murder charges. The 47-year-old former SAS corporal and Victoria Cross recipient was arrested at Sydney Airport after flying in from Queensland...
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FUEL UNDER THE PUMP
Australians face the grim prospect of fuel rationing with energy supplies unable to be guaranteed beyond May. Fuel shipment contracts are secured 30 days in advance and shipments are locked in only until early next month. While Singapore, Japan and...
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‘WE GOT HIM’
A high-ranking US Air Force officer hid behind enemy lines in the mountains of Iran for 24 hours before being rescued in an audacious and hugely complex operation.
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WAR CHEST RAIDERS
Australians have withdrawn an estimated $85bn in savings just to make ends meet as soaring living costs force many to cancel holidays, delay basic spending such as haircuts, borrow from family or even move back in with their parents. Incomes have...
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NUROFEN NEARLY KILLED ME
An Adelaide man who took 30 Nurofen tablets within two days for an extreme toothache has revealed how his heart stopped for several minutes during emergency surgery. Simon Yeaman, 61, (above) has spent the past 11 days at the Royal Adelaide Hospital...
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SAS sent to Middle East on standby
Australia has sent SAS troops to the Middle East to be on standby in case the Iran war escalates. A contingent of about 90 Special Air Service Regiment members were sent to the region two weeks ago. The elite soldiers were likely to have travelled to...
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ONE-POINT WONDERS
The Adelaide 36ers have defied the Sydney Kings in a thrilling game 4 of the NBL Championship Series, winning by a single point on their home court last night to send the grand final to a fifth and deciding game in Sydney on Sunday.
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