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Radiation Treatment Limestone Coast Working Party – community forum
Tony Pasin MP. On July 25th more than 200 people attended a community forum ... hosted by the Radiation Treatment Limestone Coast Working Party ... without the 16,000 signatures, the Parliamentary committee, or the media attention the campaign has garnered, the State Government and by extension the Limestone Coast Local Health Network would not have shifted their position from where it stood six months ago.
Cash is lifeblood
Kim Radok. When we talk about cash in business from the perspective of our introduction, essentially, we are talking about the funds in the business’s bank account(s) ... Irrespective of whether your business accepts or extends credit, the fact of business life is that now you are seeing how important it is to understand the role cash plays in the long-term survival of your business.
Sustainable procurement an important step towards net zero emissions: Koutsantonis
A new Sustainable Procurement Policy has been implemented across the State Government’s infrastructure and transport programs as we continue working to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 ... The introduction of this new policy by the Department for Infrastructure and Transport will ensure sustainability risks...
Labour market tightens
Will Hunter. Unemployment figures for Yorke Peninsula’s local government areas continue to fall and businesses are still grappling with workforce shortages. In a sign of a tightening local labour market, Copper Coast, Barunga West and Yorke Peninsula Council areas all recorded at least a 1.3 per cent decrease in unemployment in the quarter ending March 2023, compared with December 2022.
Golden moment
The Australian Diamonds are 2023 Netball World Cup champions, defeating England 61-45, in Cape Town ... Australia only dropped one match for the championship, going down by one goal to their fellow grand finalist in the last stage of the preliminary round. Sarah Klau, Yorketown, played ...
Protection coasts along
Patrick Goldsmith. Yorke Peninsula Council’s first coastal protection structures and adaptation projects community information session was attended by about 30 people at Warooka ... Further sessions will be held in Coobowie, Pine Point, James Well and Port Clinton as council looks to deal with the looming threat of flooding to coastal towns.
Our cardio Phil dies
After saving hundreds of lives in our district, and throughout South Australia, leading cardiologist Dr Phil Tideman OA, has died as a result of bowel cancer, aged 64. It was at Naracoorte and Robe that in 1999 Dr Tideman first teamed up with the Kincraig and Robe Medical Clinics, setting a blueprint for the rest of the nation to follow.
Union: not enough incentives
Give enough incentives to attract and retain police officers to work in rural South Australia. That’s the call to the government from the Police Association of South Australia,  the union representing police officers.
Regional citizen science initiatives named as finalists in state awards: Landscape SA
Two citizen science initiatives have been named as finalists in the South Australian Citizen Science Awards 2023 ... Insect Investigators and Find our Fungi are both collaborative projects on which the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board is a key partner.
Police services on the radar
A regional policing review team has been set up to examine police requirements in the Limestone Coast region. The review is part of the strategies employed by the South Australia Police to make communities in the region safer from criminal activities and increase police presence on our streets.
Police crisis
Bold measures and policies need to be put in place to solve the "crisis" facing police in Naracoorte and its surrounding towns ... Mr Telfer told The [Naracoorte Community] News that the recruitment and retention of officers was a huge challenge, with many police stations failing to get the required number of officers in a day.
Basin Plan flounders as problems mount
Southern Riverina Irrigators said Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek’s determination to deliver the Basin Plan in full shows just how out of touch with reality the minister really is ... To date, 83 per cent of water recovered has already come from the southern basin and SRI is urging NSW water minister Rose Jackson to follow Victoria’s lead and put a line through future buybacks ... Despite the devastation caused by the MDBA in the southern basin, MDBA Chief Executive Andrew McConville said most communities are in support of the plan’s implementation. Â
Wilcannia Central School visits the Heart of Australia
Nadia. Last term 17 students and six staff participated in a major excursion to Uluru and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the Far North of South Australia ... The group was lucky to experience some rarely seen events; waterfalls on Uluru and it shrouded in cloud and mist.
No gain, all pain
Will Hunter. Wallaroo placed fourth in a ranking of the country’s most rent stressed suburbs, scoring 89 out of 100 in Suburbtrends’ Rental Pain Index ... Moonta Bay resident Lucia Spithoven relocated from Eyre Peninsula ... she believed the lack of available rentals in the region would deter others from relocating to fill crucial job vacancies.
House demolition numbers on the increase
Jen Melocco. Almost 100,000 homes have been knocked down during the past five years in Australia, with more expected in coming years. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 93,975 house demolitions were approved from March 2019 to March 2023.
Positive hydrogen results revealed
Gold Hydrogen Ltd. has announced encouraging experimental stage one soil gas testing survey results for its southern Yorke Peninsula-based Ramsay project. The tests, which were completed by the CSIRO, detected hydrogen in soil across multiple locations.
Biosecurity Bill consultation now open: Scriven
Public consultation on a draft Biosecurity Bill that will enable a modern approach to biosecurity management in South Australia is now open. The new Bill will consolidate several existing Acts covering plant health, livestock, the dog fence, management of stray stock and relevant provisions of fisheries legislation, bringing consistency to biosecurity management across industries.
SA Opposition Leader heads to UK on AUKUS trip: Speirs
Leader of the Opposition David Speirs will travel to the United Kingdom to strengthen relations with our AUKUS partner and attend a high-powered roundtable on nuclear energy ... During the week-long trip Mr Speirs will meet with senior defence officials, give a keynote speech at a business event, visit key defence manufacturing sites including the Barrow-in-Furness nuclear submarine construction yard and attend a nuclear energy roundtable lunch.

