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 […]
GREENS: “SOLAR DELAY COSTING HOUSEHOLDS $5,000 DAILY”
“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 […]
SACE: YEAR 12 RESULTS POSTED TODAY
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
OLYMPIC DAM: URANIUM ALTERNATIVE WOULD SAVE UP TO $18.9 MILLION LITRES WATER DAILY
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’ […]
BHP SUPPLEMENTARY EIS RESPONSE IS IN – PUBLIC TO WAIT A FURTHER 8 WEEKS
BHP Billiton operators of the Olympic Dam gold, copper and uranium mine in the mid north of the state has handed the South Australian government it’s 15,000 page supplementary environmental impact statement. […]
CAB CHASSIS UTES – DISAPPOINTING SAFETY RATINGS
Australia’s leading independent vehicle safety advocate, the Australasian New Car Assessment Program, today announced a disappointing 3-star safety ratings for two cab chassis utes – the Toyota Landcruiser 70 Series and the […]
AMEC: INDIGENOUS ISSUES CREATE BARRIERS TO LAND ACCESS – DELAYING PROJECT APPROVALS
“Yesterday, AMEC led critical discussions with a number of key government agencies in an attempt to further streamline the development approval process”, said Simon Bennison, AMEC CEO. “Despite the significant progress already […]
VOLUNTEER QUITS OVER NRM “BANNED” POISONS PROGRAMS
Local Flinders Ranges NRM Volunteer, Nigel Carney has submitted his resignation to the General Manager of the SA Arid Land NRM Board, John Gavin. In an interview with the Coober Pedy Regional Times […]
RURAL DOCTORS ASSOC LOOK TO INDEPENDENTS FOR DESPERATE REGIONAL HEALTH SITUATION
RDAA: INDEPENDENTS GIVE HOPE FOR DESPERATE REGIONAL HEALTH SITUATION The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has written to the three Independents MPs who are expected to hold the balance of power […]
BANNED LOCUST CONTROL CHEMICALS MAY EXPOSE HUMANS, FOOD CROPS AND LIVESTOCK IN SA
UPDATED Monday 23 August 2010: Banned US neurotoxic insecticides Diazinon, Chlorpyrifos and others are about to be unleashed over South Australia to protect crops from locust with a possible assistance scheme for farmers […]
ADVANCE NOTICE – SECTIONS OF STUART & EYRE HIGHWAYS ROAD CLOSURES
Sections of the Stuart and Eyre Highway will be closed to allow DTEI and other officials to monitor road train vehicle movement and tracking along these sections of the Highways
OBJECTIONS TO OUTBACK AUTHORITY BOARD STRUCTURE – RESULTS IN PUSH FOR ALLIANCE
Update on unsettled Outback Authority situation – includes Letters to Editor + comments In what has become very public “consultation”, Outback Communities in the Far North of South Australia believe that efforts to […]
ACCC: WATER CHARGES RULES BEGINS – COMPLIANCE GUIDE ISSUED
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today issued A Guide to the Water Charge (Planning and Management Information) Rules 2010.
AMEC RE-LAUNCHES IT’S ANTI MINING TAX MEDIA CAMPAIGN
“In a gesture of good faith we ceased our media campaign in June against the Government`s proposed new mining tax, however, the time has now come to re-launch our campaign,” said Simon […]
HAS OUTBACK AREAS AUTHORITY MISLED PROGRESS ASSOCIATIONS?
Update 29th July 2010: response from Minister Gail Gago, MLC. Update 29th July 2010: letter from Flinders Ranges resident to Minister Gago. Update 2 August 2010: letter from APOMA to Minister Gail […]
RAMSEY: LABORS MISMANAGEMENT OF NATION ECONOMY – $100b IN DEBT & RISING
Local Initiatives Will Be Impacted by Mismanagement of National Economy The mismanagement of the national economy will continue to impact on our ability to deliver the assistance needed to build water infrastructure, […]
ETU STATE COUNCIL BANS MEMBERS FROM WORKING IN NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
Uranium – the new asbestos 1. Major union bans members working in uranium mines, nuclear power stations, et al 2. ETU’s educational video launched in Brisbane The debate over uranium mining and […]
NEW MENTAL HEALTH ACT SA
New legislation governing the provision of treatment, care and rehabilitation of people with mental illness in South Australia came into effect 1 July 2010. Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse John […]
MINERALS RESOURCES RENT TAX; G20; ASYLUM SEEKERS
02 July 2010 Prime Minister: Transcript of joint press conference Canberra Subject(s): Minerals Resource Rent Tax; G20; Asylum seekers PM: Well as you know the Government’s been engaged in detailed negotiations with […]
WOOMERA ACTIVITY RANGE WARNING – HAYABUSA
HAYABUSA – WOOMERA “CAPSULE LANDING” – PAGE REDIRECT FULL NOTICE BELOW AND MAP DETAILS of WOOMERA PROHIBITED AREA and ROAD BLOCK AREAS. The sections of Stuart Highway that will be closed is between […]
MAGNITUDE 4.7 EARTHQUAKE HITS COASTAL TOWNS IN REGIONAL SA
An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 4.7 occurred unselectively amidst coastal towns in regional South Australia early today, 6 June 2010 at 07:16:59 AM at its epicenter. The earthquake severely shook a broad […]
PARNELL: “OLYMPIC DAM RADIATION LEVELS NEED INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION”
Olympic Dam Polonium-210 risk: By mass, polonium-210 is around 250,000 times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide and is extremely dangerous Today 4th June, 2010, is two years after Greens Mark Parnell accused […]
NYRSTAR LEAD SMELTER: PLEASE EXPLAIN INCREASED LEAD LEVELS IN PORT PIRIE CHILDREN
Port Pirie lead and zinc smelter operator Nyrstar was given 14 days on Tuesday 1st June to explain the increase in children’s lead levels in Port Pirie. The South Australian Government […]
SEISMIC EXPERT: “MAGNITUDE 7 EARTHQUAKE RISK OBSCURED AT OLYMPIC DAM URANIUM MINE”
“Was the Clark Shaft accident at the Olympic Dam mine preceded by a seismic event?” A geophysicist who investigated earthquakes for the US Geological Survey for 22 years, says that the connection […]
EARTHQUAKE WARNINGS – SOUTH AUSTRALIANS WAITING FOR THE BIG ONE
* Newcastle 1989 * Flinders Ranges 2003 * Woomera:Torrens Fault * Olympic Dam :Mashers Fault * National Radioactive Waste Repository * Mt. Barker – Adelaide: with a popluation of approximately one million people experienced an earth tremor or […]
5.1 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE OFF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COAST OVERSHADOWED BY SUMATRA QUAKE
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the South Australian coast on Monday 5 April at 11.23pm UTC within impact distance of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park. The Great Australian Bight Marine National Park […]
MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE (7.8) FAULTLINES SENSITIVE AND ACTIVE
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake, reported by SAN FRANCISCO MarketWatch, struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia early Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake struck 325 miles west of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, according […]
PETA: BOYCOTT OF AUSTRALIAN “MULESED” WOOL IS FULL THROTTLE
For almost 90 years of cruelty in the Australian wool industry, the only end in sight was a bloody lamb’s bottom, but after just 30 months of hard-hitting PETA campaigning, animal advocates […]
BATTLE FOR THE UPPER HOUSE IN SA
The SA upper house election on Saturday is looming as a key battleground, with major parties competing with minor parties and many independent candidates. “In 2006 there was a record upper house […]
BASICS CARD: “BLANKET INCOME MANAGEMENT” FOR MANY AUSTRALIANS!
To the Editor, How many readers know that the Federal Government is trying to push through the Senate before elections, a scheme that will extend compulsory blanket Income Management to many thousands […]
SUNDAY 28 FEBRUARY: CHILDREN IN NEED “AWARENESS RALLY”
***CHILDREN IN NEED*** “AWARENESS RALLY” 28TH FEBRUARY 2010 2.OOPM PARLIAMENT HOUSE Meeting point VICTORIA SQUARE BY 1.00pm Our children come first; disability and mental health services deserve Priority number one! We must […]
WORK COVER VICTIMS LOSING THEIR HOMES – LIBS ADD INSULT TO INJURY
The WorkCover Nightmare With the opposition industrial relations spokesman Iain Evans pledging reforms to encourage businesses to self-insure, we must all but wonder what the cost to those left on the work […]
POTENTIAL AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR TEST VICTIMS MEETINGS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
SPECIAL COMMUNITY MEETINGS Potential Australian Nuclear Tests Victims Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc. In June 2009, the English Courts ruled that military personnel and their families affected by the Nuclear Tests conducted […]
SENIORS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA MAY DECIDE STATE ELECTION
Baby boomers in SA may not be swept under the rug so easily Seniors in South Australia have the potential to decide the state election with the over 50s comprising more than 44 per […]
UP TO 50 MILLION LITRES OF “UNMETRED AQUIFIER WATER” USED WEEKLY BY NORTHERN EXPRESSWAY CONTRACTORS
BORE HOLES by Paul Makin Today Tonight Channel 7 FULL VIDEO COVERAGE While most of us are doing our best to conserve the precious resource and making all sorts of sacrifices, it […]
ANIMAL CRUELTY PROSECUTIONS – TAKE THE POWER AWAY FROM THE RSPCA
The Democrats are calling for animal cruelty prosecutions to become the responsibility of SAPOL. In the wake of yet another animal cruelty prosecution blunder (the Brinkworth case) by the RSPCA the Australian […]
MARK PARNELL: THE MURKY WORLD OF POLITICAL DONATIONS – MISSING MILLIONS!
Pokie barons, property developers and lobbyists all being generous to political parties? What do they expect in return? The AEC returns for 2008/09 again feature developers, lobbyists, unions and the Australian Hotels […]
MLC CANDIDATE MARK ALDRIDGE: “ONLY LABOR ANXIOUS OVER INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION”
31% of SA victims including the Regions, currently believe nothing will be achieved by reporting a crime. Michael Atkinson latest letter to the Editor (Friday the 1st January 2010), is […]
CLASS ACTION BY NUCLEAR VETERANS HEADED BY SYDNEY LEGAL TEAM – NO WIN NO FEE
Surviving Australian veterans of the British nuclear tests at Maralinga, Monte Bello Island and Christmas Island in the 1950s and 60s are joining British and other nuclear veterans in taking the British […]
THYROID: ANTI-RADIATION PILLS TO BE DISTRIBUTED NEAR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Local health officials say they are preparing to distribute new potassium iodide pills to people within 10 miles of the Perry plant [in the US], which besides Lake [County], includes parts of […]
“TOUGH ON CRIME, OR ATTACKS ON SOFT TARGETS?” – MARK ALDRIDGE – INDEPENDENT
No protection for Civil Rights – Change is Necessary! Mark M Aldridge, Independent Candidate for the Legislative Council says, “Our hard earned Civil and Human rights are not protected and are under […]
NATIVE BIRDS ARE FAIR GAME IN SA – UPPER HOUSE DECIDES
“Annual slaughter of native birds must stop,” says Parnell The SA Upper House has rejected a Greens Bill to permanently ban duck hunting in South Australia.
HACKERS UNLEASH DOCUMENTS SAYING CLIMATE SCIENTISTS CONSPIRED TO OVERSTATE HUMAN INFLUENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Hackers leak climate change e-mails from key research unit, stoke debate on global warming. The furor over the leaked data comes weeks before the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, when 192 nations […]
NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE FOR FAMILIES – STRONTIUM-90 IN BABIES TEETH NEAR REACTORS
To the Editor, A study on childhood cancer near nuclear power plants in Florida, U.S., was released in April. According to the study by the Radiation and Public Health Project, levels of […]
MARALINGA NUCLEAR VETERANS DISAPPOINTED AS THEIR WEBSITE IS CLOSED DOWN
UPDATE: The Nuclear Veterans have a new website as of 28 November 2009 as per comment below. The Australian Nuclear Veterans website has been closed down – it’s former web hoster TELSTRA, […]
BHP ACCIDENT COULD DISRUPT MINE OPERATIONS FOR SEVERAL MONTHS
Matt Chambers | October 09, 2009 The Australian Update: “BHP Billiton’s giant Olympic Dam underground mine could be running at just 20 per cent capacity for up to six months, analysts say, […]
HAULAGE SYSTEM FAILURE AT OLYMPIC DAM MINE
At approximately 10.30pm yesterday, the haulage system in the Clark Shaft at Olympic Dam was damaged in a mechanical failure. The haulage system used at Olympic Dam is fully automated, and no-one […]
AUSTRALIA – AUTHORITIES MUST BETTER PREPARE FOR “OVERDUE” VOLCANO RISK
A significant volcano eruption in Australia is ‘well overdue’ and emergency authorities must better prepare themselves and the wider community to respond to it, Associate Professor Joyce the recipient of the prestigious […]
SA COUNCILS SHARE IN $131 MILLION IN FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
The Rudd Labor Government has today announced the funding that each and every local governing body in South Australia will receive this financial year through the Financial Assistance Grants program.
RANKINE: ANANGU ON APY LAND TO TAKE OUT HOMESTART LOANS FOR NEW HOUSING
According to Ms Jennifer Rankine the Minister for Families and Communities, in Coober Pedy on Tuesday (today), Anangu on the APY Lands will be able to apply for home loans through a […]
Coober Pedy Regional Times 