It's all in the timing: SA premier opens border to NSW, and great news for gamers (and even better news for Facebook) — plus other stories you missed this week.
As the crow flies
In a piece of very welcome news for people who enjoy travelling to…

Facebook’s ready to harvest your body’s data too (and other news you may have missed)

They were the great Adelaide hope of the 1990s indie-rock explosion, and their music is still adored to this day – so why weren’t they huge?
In the early 90s music scene there was no doubt in everyone’s mind which band was going to be the next big…

Whatever happened to The Mandelbrot Set?

We swear we've heard this funding announcement before. Plus it's one step forward and two steps back for the mental health crisis.
Gimme shelter
There’s one thing which the rolling lockdowns have taught every innter-city resident -- from the smuggest…

Scott Morrison and the case of the reappearing funding announcement (and other news you may have missed)

CBD-Oh!
There was some pretty big news in the Pharmacy Daily email blast on Wednesday September 9. If it’s still languishing unread in your inbox then please be advised that the Therapeutic Goods Administration has reportedly made an interim decision…

Pass the dutchie on the pharmacist-approved-hand side (and other news you may have missed)

Pandemics and recessions are when people need to feel the government has their back, rather than its hand in the till.
So anyway, there’s been a massive reshuffle of the Marshall government’s ministry and—no wait, come back this is worth it, I…

The public already has a deep distrust of politics, and our current crop are only making it worse

Let’s get criminal, criminal
Hey, remember last week when this very column mentioned that scandal-riven SA parliamentarians are responding to ICAC enquiries with a blanket “nup” on the grounds that they’re subject to parliamentary privilege -- which…

Anyone looking for 1.5 million housemates? (And other news you may have missed)

Midnight Oil have released their first song in two decades – the jubilant ‘Gadigal Land’ – and you know what? It’s pretty great. It sounds very like late-period Oils, features contributions from Dan Sultan, Joel Davison, Kaleena Briggs and Bunna…

The 10 types of comeback singles: Midnight Oil, Shania Twain, LL Cool J and more

SA ICAC is having a rough time being stonewalled by the Liberals over recent scandals (plus other stories from a packed week).
SA scandalwatch!
When multiple scandals recently broke about South Australian frontbenchers misusing their parliamentary…

Putting the ‘vice’ in vice chancellor (and other news you may have missed)

The Homebuilder stimulus scheme hits an anticlimax, ABC children's show triggers Twitter, and is Tinder ageist?
Build it, and they will (not) come
The Morrison government has been accused of addressing the pandemic and related recession with what…

Guess how many people have accessed that HomeBuilder grant nobody can access (and other news you may have missed)

The release of a draft report from the Electoral District Boundaries Commission means South Australia is getting a pre-election shake up! Andrew P Street walks you through all the excitement, mystery and intrigue of putting lines on a map.
So, what’s…

Playmander to fairness clause: South Australia’s latest electoral redistribution explained

With a local scene just easing out of COVID-19 hibernation, the new general manager of Music SA arrives in the role at a heck of a time.
When The Adelaide Review asks Roberts how she’s finding her new gig, she pauses before diplomatically answering,…

Kim Roberts might just be the hero South Australian music needs right now

Job cuts hit the Justice League, while the Coalition fights itself over university funding. Catch up with the news from the week you may have missed.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s corporate synergy!
While Australia’s media organisations are being…

Even Batman is losing his job (and other news you may have missed)

Bad news for coal fans, Clive Palmer's mounting court challenges, and Venice introduces a 'no fatties' rule. Catch up with the news you may have missed this week with Andrew P Street.
Are you gonna take it, Clive?
Clive Palmer has been all over the…

Clive Palmer still set to face the music (and other news you may have missed)

South Australia finds itself once again cut off from the tantalising wonders of the east coast. So let’s just spend the day in our pyjamas, literally and metaphorically, and get weird.
As Victoria’s situation continues to deteriorate into a state of…

Cut off from our cool neighbours, South Australia may as well embrace cultural cabin fever

The unsupported hunches that led to uni course fee hikes, the Coalition's "zombie projects" still getting government money, and other news that slipped through the cracks.
We don’t need no education (funding)
Hey, remember how Education Minister Dan…

Are uni fees based on Dan Tehan’s vision board? (and other news you may have missed)

Handled well, the scandal could have been knocked on the head. But avoidance tactics and rumours led to a domino effect, knocking down three MPs.
You know how a small tickle in the throat can rapidly turn into a full-blown, respirator-assisted…

Mishandling of SA’s comedy of errors results in a full-blown rorts investigation

As you read this, the US re-election campaign for Donald Trump is probably using the Rolling Stones’ ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ for another ill-advised and socially undistanced event, despite the ongoing legal efforts of the band to prevent…

What happens when a politician you hate starts using your music in their rallies?

South Australian MPs get their travel expenses sorted out, Adani is doing just fine, thanks, and did you want an ecological catastrophe to freak out about?
Wherever I lay my travel expense claims, that’s my home
Hey, do you remember a couple of weeks…

Everyone’s a country member (and other news you may have missed)

The ICAC argument that someone doesn't want you to see, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation does... something, and other news you missed this week.
The Twitter effect
It’s depressingly common to hear about the diminished power of the media -- at least,…

When old political scandals attack! (And other news you may have missed)

The long overdue release of the Palace Letters make one thing clear: Australia needs to become a republic if it wants to save itself from political traitors seeking to undermine our democracy.
Let’s jump straight to the end: thanks to the release of…