South Australia

The Beaumont children (centre) disappeared on Australia Day 1966 after a trip to Glenelg Beach. Convicted sex offender Bill Cotton (left) was in a relationship with their mother Nancy and in their house on the day they disappeared.

Sex offender placed in Beaumont home on day kids vanished

For six decades, one man has been missing from the Beaumont children story — a convicted sex offender who was inside their home on the day they vanished. It’s time to put him back in the frame. 

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A Qantas flight bound for Adelaide was forced to divert due to powerful winds.

‘Frustrating’: Qantas passengers land at army base

A Qantas passenger flight bound for Adelaide was forced to make a diversion after powerful winds wreaked havoc in the region.

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CFS fighting the Tooperang bushfire overnight. 19th Jan 2026. Morphett Vale CFS

‘Prepare to leave’: Fire rips through 650 hectares

An uncontrolled bushfire is threatening communities south of Adelaide, with authorities issuing a watch and act warning.

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Passengers on a Qantas flight in South Australia have been left shaken by separate mid-air dramas after the plane was forced to turn back twice due to a bird strike.
Peter Malinaskaus, Randa Abdel-Fattah and Louise Adler

He gives artists $10m a year. Why did they humiliate him?

AARON PATRICK: Even South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas wasn’t powerful enough to shut down anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has been reinvited to speak at the Adelaide Writers’ Festival.

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A desperate search is underway for Trisha Graf, mother-of-six.

‘Suspicious’: Desperate search for missing mum in bushland

A desperate search is underway in the harsh South Australian outback for a missing mother of six who vanished without a trace more than a month ago.

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Randa Abdel-Fattah’s removal from Adelaide Writers’ Week sparked an outcry and author boycotts.

Lobby pressure in spotlight after arts festival capitulates

As an arts festival picks up the pieces after an author cancellation triggered a huge boycott, organisations are being urged to stare down lobby pressure.

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Adelaide Writers’ Week has been cancelled.

Adelaide Writers’ Week canned after boss Louise Adler quits

Adelaide Writers’ Week has been cancelled after director Louise Adler quit over Randa Abdel-Fattah being uninvited from the festival over her anti-Israel views.

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Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah in a previous appearance at the Festival.

Writers pull out of festival as anti-Israel academic canned

A stampede of writers have withdrawn from an Adelaide festival after an anti-Israel academic, Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, had her appearance cancelled in the wake of the Bondi massacre.

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Gus disappeared from his family's vast and remote sheep grazing property on September 27. (HANDOUT/SA POLICE)

Police re-interview family of missing four-year-old Gus

Police have again returned to a remote station where a four-year-old boy vanished in September, saying they ‘won't rest’ in their search for answers.

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A plane has caught fire in Adelaide after impacting the tarmac.

Airport emergency after plane crashes, erupts in flames

A plane has burst into flames after crashing into the tarmac at an Australian airport, sparking a grass fire and an emergency response. 

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Bail has been denied to South Australian MP Nick McBride who is charged with assaulting a woman. (David Mariuz/AAP PHOTOS)

MP accused of domestic violence to stay behind bars

A state MP accused of assaulting a woman and breaching an intervention order will remain behind bars awaiting a home detention report, a court has ruled.

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‘Tireless’ Labor great dies on Christmas Day, aged 75

One of the Labor Party’s “greatest champions” has died peacefully on Christmas Day at age 75.

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