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A 5.4 earthquake recorded by Geoscience Australia, SE of Moe in Victoria’s North on Tuesday night 19 June has already registered over 40 aftershocks up to Wednesday 20th June. The quake located […]
Land managers proposing to undertake certain activities in the SA Arid Lands region that may impact on a water resource will now need to apply for a new permit introduced by the […]
Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy Tom Koutsantonis today welcomed the arrival of the second direct shipment of Caterpillar trucks and equipment to supply the expanding mining sector. A month after the […]
Applications for Gillard Government Volunteer Grants for 2012 are now open, with $16 million available to not-for-profit organisations around the country. “The grants range between $1,000 and $5,000 and can be used […]
A 3.9 magnitude earthquake has struck near Olympic Dam in South Australia’s Mid – Far North AEST: Monday 26 March 2012 at 07:53:20 in addition to a spate of 4 separate earthquakes in the […]
A spate of earthquakes all within a week of each other have occurred in South Australia’s Far North with three strikes on the APY Lands. A significant 6.1 earthquake struck near Ernabella (Pukatja), Fregon and Indulkana […]
Coober Pedy will have a more secure water supply thanks to a $600,000 State Government grant to upgrade a 26-year-old cement water pipeline which supplies the town. Regional Development Minister Gail Gago […]
Coober Pedy police are investigating the theft of a significant quantity of opal, and gold and silver ingots from Coober Pedy this week and ask dealers of precious stones and metals to […]
Proposed changes to federal mining occupational health safety and welfare (OHS&W) regulations to be implemented on the first of January 2012 have been deferred for twelve months, while lawmakers, Safe Work Australia […]
Eleven workers at Coober Pedy in South Australia have been back-paid a total of $65,900 following intervention by the Fair Work Ombudsman. The workers – who all worked at the same business […]
On 14 November 2011, IMX Resources Limited called on its joint venture partner, Taifeng Yuanchuang International Development Co., Ltd to pay by 28 November 2011 its 49% share (A$4,121,601) of Cairn Hill […]
More than one-third of Australians did voluntary work last year, with more women volunteering than men, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). In 2010, 36% of Australians aged 18 years […]
COOBER PEDY: All available CFS firefighters (6) left Coober Pedy with two fire trucks at 4pm on Tuesday 29 November to fight fires on Bulgunnia Pastoral property and another burning at McDouall Peak Station, 140 – […]
The Country Fire Service (CFS) has announced an early start to the 2011/12 Fire Danger Season for the North East Pastoral and North West Pastoral Fire Ban Districts. The season which was […]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Regional Australia has today launched an inquiry into the experience of fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) and drive-in, drive-out (DIDO) workers in regional Australia. “The Committee recognises […]
Federal Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey says the fact that his private members motion on the Remote Areas Subsidy for electricity has passed the Parliament unopposed, shows even the South Australian Federal […]
Iron ore producer and explorer, IMX Resources Limited wishes to advise that the Managing Director, Mr. Duncan McBain, has tendered his resignation to the Board. Chairman, Mr. Johann Jacobs, said that “it […]
Draft model Codes of Practice open for public comment until 9 SEPT Safe Work Australia in partnership with the Commonwealth and states are recommending alteration of work health and safety laws for […]
The disappearance and search for missing person Jason Neil Richards has been declared a Major Crime. Police hold grave fears for the safety of Mr Richards who’s family have not heard from […]
An URGENT PUBLIC MEETING scheduled for 10.30am on Sunday 15 May in Coober Pedy will go ahead despite last minute suggestions that the excessive electricity tariffs imposed on 13 Outback Towns will […]
A marijuana bud and a business shop takings were “seized” in the latest raid at Mintabie on Officer Oil Basin in the Far North of South Australia. On Monday 11 April, 2011 […]
The leaked Sustainable Budget Commission Report or “Razor Gang Report” reveals that the State Government had full knowledge of the impact the reduction in the RAES subsidy would have on the communities […]
A group of angry Outback SA business people have launched a hard-hitting campaign against the Rann government’s decision to increase electricity prices in their region by as much as 125%. The campaign […]
Where is the logic? The people involved that we the tax payers employ are obviously out of their minds!!! It is up to us to make ourselves heard and allow the rest […]
“It is obvious the government have lost complete control of their budget”. ”Letter to Coober Pedy Businesses Dear All, By now you will be aware that the state government intends to dramatically […]
Power price increases of up to 120% may force tourism businesses to close in Coober Pedy and other key South Australian outback tourism destinations. South Australian Tourism Industry Council Chief Executive, Ward […]
In a letter received from Minister O’Brien yesterday regarding the Remote Areas Energy Supplies (RAES), he states the following reasons for implenting a $1.3 million tax on 13 remote communities in the […]
FAMILY FIRST MLC Dennis Hood is circulating a petition and has raised in Parliament concerns regarding massive increases in the electricity tariff for Coober Pedy and 12 other outback towns that are […]
“ORDINARY families will cop the brunt of Labor’s carbon tax hit squarely in their hip-pockets,” Leader of the Nationals Warren Truss told a rally of over 3,000 protesters outside Parliament House in […]
Energy Minister Michael O’Brien has stated on ABC radio that “one of the compelling reasons for withdrawing the Remote Areas Electricity Subsidy from 13 remote communities was due to the increased mining […]
Dear Editor, Most of us who live in remote South Australia are content when rain falls from the sky, but the latest tax that fell on us is somewhat confusing. Basically most […]
Negotiations are currently underway between the Coober Pedy District Council and the Hon Michael O’Brien MP, the Minister for Energy in South Australia following community outrage over what outback residents and businesses […]
In a speech to the South Australian Parliament on 8 March 2011 Mr Dan Van Holst Pellekaan the Federal Member for Stuart spoke strongly of the effects the unfair and unrealistic electricity […]
Adam Plate of Oodnadatta Traders (Pink Roadhouse Oodnadatta), a general outback business employing up to 12 people, this week expressed dismay at the electricity price rises which he said will be “much […]
Letter to Senator Nick Xenaphon from Yanni Athanasiadis of Umoona Opal Mine and Museum re: the short sighted decision of SA Government and Energy minister to impose $1.3m electricity tariff on Outback […]
Letter to Premier Mike Rann from Yanni Athanasiadis of Umoona Opal Mine & Museum Coober Pedy re: discriminatory $1.3million electricity tax on remote South Australian communities Mr Rann, My name is Yanni Athanasiadis and […]
Letter to Ms Lyn Breuer MP from Yanni Athanasiadis Umoona Opal Mine & Museum Coober Pedy re: Discrimination in Electricity Tariffs imposed on Regional South Australians Mrs Breuer, I tried to call your office […]
SA govt squeeze outback towns for $1.3m extra taxes but procrastinate over collecting $200m in unpaid fines elsewhere Letter to Editor by: Richard Abbott a licenced land surveyor from Adelaide who visits Coober Pedy regularly. […]
South Australian tourism minister John Rau brushed aside the fate of tourism businesses in remote communities when asked in parliament how he expects a small remote tourism business to absorb massive increases […]
The District Council of Coober Pedy and the Coober Pedy Retail Business and Tourism Association are vehemently opposed to the new South Australian Government electricity tarriff increases and are doing everything possible […]
Temperatures in the Far North communities of SA plummeted from the high 40s down to 17C on Sunday as Ex-Cyclone Yasi circled the top end of the state. Pastoral areas north of Coober Pedy […]
for THUNDERSTORMS, DAMAGING WIND, FLASH FLOODING and LARGE HAILSTONES A deep tropical low pressure system associated with the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Yasi is threatening up to 8 inches of rain for areas just north […]
Iron ore producer, IMX Resources Limited (ASX:IXR) is pleased to announce that the Cairn Hill Phase 1 life of mine sales contract has been novated to the Sichuan Taifeng Group on the […]
Linc Energy CEO and Managing Director Peter Bond announced this week that Terrex Seismic had been awarded a $2.6 million contract for an aggressive 2D seismic program on Linc Energy’s petroleum and […]
Elders Weather: 45 degrees predicted for Coober Pedy on New Year’s Day ETSA Utilities is closely monitoring weather conditions following the CFS warning of catastrophic fire conditions tomorrow (Friday) and the Bureau […]
Residents of the Williams Creek area availed themselves to search and rescue procedures yesterday afternoon, when a light plane (Jabiru) made an emergency landing approximately 48 kilometres North West of William Creek […]
Update: Police have since released that the missing man has returned to Glendambo safely, although suffering from dehydration after 7 hours in the scrub with temperatures in the high 30s. Previously: Roxby Downs […]
“The Rann Government’s tardiness in changing its solar feed-in bonus scheme will cost households with solar PV cells at least $800,000 – with potential lost revenue increasing $5,000 per day”, says SA […]
UPDATE: 2013 Year 12 SACE results 2013 will be released online from 8am, Thursday 19 December, 2013. Go to: http://www.sace.sa.edu.au/home
Authorities have got to decide whether they are happy for South Australia to simply be China’s quarry”, says SA Greens MLC Mark Parnell. A new peer-reviewed report shows that a ‘no uranium’ […]
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