South Australia

“We don't think the cap on growth is going to impact on South Australia — in terms of hospital-based activity, we're a relatively low-growth jurisdiction.'' Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said the decision by SA and the ACT's Labor Government to back to the agreement was a “major breakthrough”.

Federal Labor MP Steve Georganas might find himself a Senator after the next federal election under one scenario being contemplated to accommodate Friday's surprise decision by the Australian Electoral Commission to abolish the seat of Port Adelaide. The abolition of the 70-year-old safe Labor seat, ...

"Bloody Friday the 13th!!" With those tweeted words, Labor frontbencher and party president Mark Butler realised he'd just been left standing after a high-stakes game of musical chairs. Given the task of shrinking South Australia's electoral might from 11 to 10 seats to reflect the state's declining share of the ...

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has praised the first few months of the Tesla big battery in South Australia, saying it is faster and smarter than conventional turbines. In a new report, the grid operator has illustrated how the battery was used in frequency control and ancillary services market.

Severe weather to hit South Australia. The weather bureau has issued a severe weather warning for large parts of South Australia. Australian Associated PressApril 13, 20183:31pm. A severe weather warning is in place for Adelaide and large parts of South Australia as storms sweep across the state. The Bureau of ...

Federal electorate of Port Adelaide to be abolished under radical redraw of South Australia electoral map by Australian Electoral Commission ... SENIOR Labor frontbencher Mark Butler's seat of Port Adelaide has been sensationally abolished under a radical redraw of South Australia's federal electorate ...

Andy Flower, feeling the pinch after endless months of playing cricket and fielding questions about Zimbabwe's future, has pulled out of his three-year contract with South Australia. "The past few years have been extremely turbulent for my family and playing 12 months of the year has taken its toll on me physically," Flower, ...

"Increasing the threshold to $1.5 million would see South Australia no longer have the nation's lowest rate at which it is introduced, which has meant the state has not been able to compete on a level playing field when trying to attract new business." However, Mr Penney wanted to see the detail of the new ...

South Australian government authorities have angered upstream irrigators by entering the market to buy irrigation water and use it in Adelaide. A tender was quietly placed on a government website to buy up to three gigalitres of irrigation water from the Murray-Darling. Two water broking services were ...

A fire weather warning has been issued for multiple regions of South Australia today as record high temperatures continue to sweep across the state. The Bureau of Meteorology said that fires could be sparked by high-speed winds of up to 50km/h combined with the unprecedented heatwave currently ...

Once completed, this will be South Australia's third "world's largest" project that is associated with energy and energy production/storage. Currently, the area holds the record for the world's biggest litium-ion battery storage installation and the world's biggest virtual power plant. Both of those projects are ...

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has brand logos projected onto his head during a visit to PrimeQ to announce funding for Investment Attraction South Australia. Picture: AAP / Tracey Nearmy. The proposed, and now shelved, state-level bank tax pulled the banking sector and others into a fight they ...

Adelaide city councillors have reported seeing damage in the members' room, including stuffing pulled out of the back of one of the couches, which they believe has been used to make a nest. A rat is yet to be sighted but a cage and a trap has been positioned next to one of the couches. Councillors and ...

The Solar Citizens South Australia campaigner Dan Spencer told Guardian Australia the organisation, backed by a range of solar energy companies, hoped to pressure the Liberals into abandoning their plans to scrap the target, saying it jeopardised investment. The rating also factored in each party's ...

In recent years, the state of South Australia has become a leader in new, innovative technologies, which are helping drive forward the low-carbon transition. Helped by its partnership with Tesla, the Labor government has built both the world's largest battery plant and the largest 'virtual power plant', linking ...

The upcoming South Australia election is shaping up to be the Nick Xenophon show, complete with a rap video featuring the man himself trying to dance his way to parliament. The former federal Senator could emerge the kingmaker on March 17 if his SA-BEST party polls strongly on election day.

“In the not-too-distant future, cancer therapy devices that were made here in South Australia will be curing cancer throughout Australia ... and the Asia Pacific Region,” he declared. “They will be assembled, tested to clinical perfection, disassembled and shipped to sites all over the Asia Pacific region.”.

Speaking at the 4th Australian Government Data Summit in Canberra in Wednesday, Peter Worthington-Eyre, chief data officer at South Australia's Department of Premier and Cabinet, revealed that not surprisingly it's the younger drivers who have taken to the digital licence. "What's really interesting is that ...

Xenophon, who had fretted much of the evening about the exodus of young people out of South Australia (an anxiety that hangs over the contest, and one that all the political protagonists share in common), and about the Australian Hotels Association spending “at least $1m attacking me with all sorts of ...