CATEGORY
SA
- About ARR.News
- ACT
- Advertisement
- AFL
- Aging
- Agriculture
- Aquaculture & fishing
- ARR.News event
- Arts
- Athletics
- Banking
- Basketball
- Beef
- Biodiversity
- Book Review
- Bowls
- Building & Construction
- Business
- Carbon
- Charity
- Climate
- Communications
- Community
- Conflict
- Cotton
- Council
- Craft
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Dairy
- Dams & water
- Dance
- Defence
- Drought
- e-commerce
- Education & training
- Employment
- Energy
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Equestrian
- Event
- Exhibition
- Family
- Farming
- Federal politics
- Feed
- Fertiliser
- Festival
- Film
- Fire
- Fishing
- Flood
- Flora
- Food
- Food & Beverages
- Football Netball
- Forestry
- Gardening
- Goats
- Golf
- Grains
- Health
- Health
- History & heritage
- Hockey
- Horticulture
- Hospitality
- Indigenous
- Industry reports
- Infrastructure
- Inland waterways
- International
- International
- Interview
- Invasive species
- Investor Relations
- Land & environment
- Law & order
- Letters & responses
- Life
- Literature
- Manufacturing
- Marine
- Media
- Media contribution
- Media Release
- Meet the publishers
- Military
- Military history
- Mining
- Motorsport
- Murray River
- Music
- Netball
- New Release
- News
- Newsletters - Sport
- NSW
Government tells sick and elderly to drive 80km
Without consulting three rural communities, the SA Government has abruptly slashed nursing services to people with cancer, heart conditions and multiple sclerosis. Sick, infirm, and elderly people at Lucindale, Tintinara and Coonalpyn have been told to go to larger towns...
Welcome everyone!
“Welcome everyone” is the decision of Naracoorte Lucindale Council which has ditched its prayer and modernised its acknowledgement of country ... replaced with two simple lines: “We acknowledge and respect our complex history. We welcome everyone to build our future together.”
One man, a tinnie and the mighty Murray
There’s a magic that comes from the tranquil flowing waters of the mighty Murray. As the river snakes from the mountains across the floodplains and finishes in the estuary, Dennis Miles of Yarrawonga has been observing the beauty, the challenges and the love expressed by people on the river.
$600K patch up
Michelle Daw. Three damaged sections of the Upper Yorke Road between Bute and Port Broughton will be patched, thanks to a $600,000 commitment by the state government ... Announcement of the patching works follows years of lobbying by council and Member for Narungga Fraser Ellis ... “I don’t mean to be ungrateful but it’s not enough to do a proper job,” Mr Ellis said.
Prosperity in the Spencer Gulf
Patrick Goldsmith. Premier Peter Malinauskas has earmarked Upper Spencer Gulf as the future of the state’s potential prosperity. Speaking at a public forum in Port Pirie on Tuesday, February 27, Mr Malinauskas outlined his government’s plan to invest in green energy, including making the most of abundant solar, wind, copper and magnetite iron ore resources.
Yorke Peninsula Country Times, 5 March 2024
Out now! Subscribe here!
Coonawarra’s wine community gathers to herald in the new vintage
The Coonawarra Grape and Wine industry are set to herald in the 2024 Vintage (aka. V24), with the clinking of glasses and sound of bagpipes, as community members and dignitaries gather at the iconic Coonawarra Railway Siding for the official Vintage Launch Ceremony ... wine industry stakeholders and supporters will ‘raise a glass’ to the upcoming Coonawarra grape harvest and bid farewell to the season past.
Sick and waiting
Sick and waiting for hours to be seen by a doctor at the Naracoorte Health Service (public hospital). How does that feel? And if that’s not bad enough, how about waiting for four hours for an ambulance transfer?
Patient waiting times worrying
Public waiting times for life-saving treatments at regional hospitals like Naracoorte are “creating real anxieties.” That’s the word from Shadow Minister for Regional Health Services Penny Pratt, who says it is concerning that people are losing confidence in country health systems.
Creditors owed $350,000
Creditors of Naracoorte’s closed Morris Bakery are owed more than $350,000, and investigations confirm the company was not insured for employee dishonesty. New information ascertained by this newspaper [Naracoorte Community News] on the business’s liquidation process confirms that the company’s director has completed his report on “company activities and property,” which has been lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
The government is lost at sea
Why do both sides of federal politics continue to think we need to have a shipbuilding industry as part of our naval defence sector? Every year we spend billions of dollars trying to build ships in Australia when the most cost effective thing to do is import them off the shelf from our allies.
YPCT earns Country Press SA nods
Yorke Peninsula Country Times was again recognised as one of the best papers in the state at the 2023 Country Press South Australia awards ... Third-year cadet journalist Patrick Goldsmith scooped the Best Sports Story Award for his piece about Coobowie’s Jamie Tape and editor Rhiannon Koch won the Best Editorial Writing category.
Fishing for a future
Michelle Daw. Commercial fishers are hoping the release of a state government report on its controversial cost recovery model will bring about changes, enabling them to stay in business. The Report of the Independent Cost Recovery Review Panel from October 2023 was released by Primary Industries Minister Clare Scriven on Tuesday, February 20.
The stories of us
Michelle Daw. Stenhouse Bay and a rising full moon formed the stunning backdrop to the on-Country preview of Adelaide Festival production, Guuranda, at the weekend ... It tells the creation stories of Guuranda/Yorke Peninsula and is led by artistic director and Narungga /Kaurna theatre-maker Jacob Boehme.
Yorke Peninsula Country Times, 27 February 2024
Out now! Subscribe here!
GRDC leads $42m initiative to bolster biosecurity for Australia’s grain growers: GRDC
A groundbreaking $42.7 million national biosecurity initiative led by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) in partnership with five state government departments is set to transform the effectiveness and responsiveness of Australia’s grains biosecurity system. The six-year initiative will use state-of-the-art technology and processes to improve Australia’s ability to rapidly detect and accurately diagnose exotic pests and plant diseases...
Major land rezoning
Consultations on a major land rezoning application in the state’s South East will open in the coming months. The Wattle Range Council is applying to rezone ten parcels of land in the lower South East, specifically around the townships of Millicent, Penola, Beachport, and Glencoe. The areas under consideration have been identified in the council’s 25-year strategic land use plan to accommodate housing and employment growth as population surges in nearby major centres - Mount Gambier and Robe.
Finding balance as an invited guest: Registered Nurses lived experience of providing home-based palliative care in rural communities
Dr Lyn Rabbetts recently graduated at a ceremony held at the Convention Centre ... hosted by the Flinders University after successfully completing her PhD in Palliative Care Nursing. Lyn’s thesis was titled, Finding Balance as an invited guest: Registered Nurses lived experience of providing home-based palliative care in rural communities.
Headline: 55.8 per cent in favour
385 people respond to the Naracoorte Regional Sports Centre proposal survey. Many people in the district believe a sports centre will be an asset for the community and are in favour of the council’s plans to progress the Naracoorte Regional Sports Centre project.
