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ABC News
7 minutes ago
- Climate
- ABC News
Want to win a Big Red Beanie? Get ready to test your trivia
Want to get your hands on one? You'll need to put your ability to retain useless facts to the test and show us your knowledge of general trivia playing our 'Hot or Cold Quiz'. Listen in to ABC Radio Adelaide from Breakfast through to Evenings and right across the weekend for your chance to win your very own Big Red Beanie. From Monday 21 July, each show on ABC Radio Adelaide will have one of these coveted winter-warming prizes up for grabs. Listen for the cue to call, answer a general 'Hot or Cold' question and you could win. Good luck! Think you know hot from cold? Get ready to test your general knowledge! ABC Radio Adelaide's 'Hot or Cold Quiz' will include questions about all sorts of people, places and things. Here's a few example questions to get you started: Which planet is hotter, Uranus or Neptune ? Which planet is hotter, Uranus or Neptune ? Is it colder at the bottom of the Mariana Trench or at the top of Mt Everest? Listen to ABC Radio Adelaide online here: Download the ABC Listen app here: Subscribe to our newsletter:
BBC News
17 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Brisbane Fan Zone officially opens
Many fans may have opted to detour to the Great Barrier Reef or Cairns before arriving in Brisbane from Adelaide but today Rugby Australia CEO Phil Waugh opened the official fan zone in King George Square. The public can measure their heights against the likes of Maro Itoje and Joseph Suaalii, test the strength of their tackle and even point to which Wallaby or Lion hair do they'd like to emulate at a pop up barbershop. Former Wallaby Waugh says he's been delighted with how the tour has gone so far:''The build-up has been nice, we've seen record crowds at Western Force, the biggest crowd in twenty years at the Brumbies. I think we really saw this country come alive when the Wallabies beat England last year in Twickenham. Everyone wants to get behind the team. To sell out Suncorp on Saturday night off the back of these records means it's going to be a very excited two and a half team now needs to put the performance out on the park. You want hunger, fight and desperation.''
News.com.au
17 hours ago
- Politics
- News.com.au
Greens demand Prime Minister act as South Australian algae bloom nears ‘disaster', fisheries shut down
Anthony Albanese is being pressed to declare a toxic algae bloom, which has crippled South Australia's coastline and plunged seafood industries into peril, a 'national disaster'. The naturally-occurring but harmful algal bloom has plagued the state's beaches for months, killing marine life and plunging the seafood industry into crisis. Reports have emerged of dead fish, rays and sharks washing up along the metropolitan coastline – including North Haven between the river mouth and marina breakwater, Tennyson Beach, north of Grange jetty, and south of Christies Beach Surf Life Saving Club. Several mussel farming sites around the Port Lincoln area have also been shut after shellfish toxins were detected in the area. Greens senator Sarah Hanson Young has says the bloom is a 'national disaster' and therefore required a 'national response'. While algal blooms are not covered under natural or national disaster declarations, which are activated to better co-ordinate assistance between state and Commonwealth governments, work is ongoing to discern whether the event qualifies under other federal arrangements. She called on the Prime Minister and federal Environment Minister Murray Watt to visit Adelaide and 'take some action'. 'If this was happening in Bondi, or on the North Shore in Sydney, the Prime Minister would have already been on the beach, talking to concerned locals and the affected industries,' Senator Hanson-Young said on Wednesday. 'But today, we've had virtually nothing from the federal government.' Following a meeting between Senator Watt and the state government, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water's Head of International Environment, Reef and Oceans has been sent to the state. Senator Watt said the government was 'deeply concerned by the widespread marine species mortalities caused by this extreme event,' and said he had been kept up to date by the Malinauskas government. 'While the science has made clear that there is no quick fix for the bloom, by having senior federal representatives on the ground we are supporting the SA government's efforts with manpower, and ramping up our ongoing monitoring efforts,' he said. 'We will give careful consideration to any request for assistance we receive from the state government.' South Australia's flagship fisheries patrol vessel Southern Ranger has been deployed to inspect the bloom and help authorities understand its impact. Senator Hanson-Young, the Greens' environment and water spokeswoman, said this should have been happening 'weeks and weeks ago' – pointing out SA's fishing and tourism industries were being 'smashed'. 'Our environment is dying, and our community is alarmed,' she said. 'This is the climate crisis unfolding before our very eyes, and South Australia can't handle it on our own.' Senator Hanson-Young said she would be moving for a federal inquiry into the crisis when parliament resumes. In their latest update on Wednesday, the SA Department of Environment and Water said the algae – known as Karenia mikimotoi – had been detected in the Port River. Elevated levels were found by authorities along the metropolitan coastline, while 'very high' levels were at the Garden Island and Outer Harbor boat ramps. It was first detected on the Fleurieu Peninsula in March. 'State government agencies are taking weekly water samples at 17 sites across West Lakes, the Port River, the Patawalonga River and the end of four jetties at Largs Bay, Grange, Glenelg and Port Noarlunga,' the department said in their update. The South Australian opposition has already called for a royal commission to explore the origin and consequences of the algae and what could have been done to manage the situation, the ABC reports. Authorities believe a marine heatwave in September last year could have contributed to the bloom. Flooding in the Murray River over 2022 and 2023 washing extra nutrients into the sea, or an unprecedented cold-water upwelling over the summer of 2023-24, may also have contributed. The last large event of this type of algae recorded in SA was at Coffin Bay in 2014. Karenia mikimotoi is not known to cause long-term harmful effects in humans but exposure to discoloured or foamy water can cause short-term skin or eye irritation and respiratory symptoms.
Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Was he the greatest? Debate on as SA footy legend dies
In South Australian footy circles, it always came down to this: Robran or Ebert? There's no solution to who is SA's best Australian rules player, but arguments settled on two: Port Adelaide great Russell Ebert, or North Adelaide legend Barrie Robran. And despite Ebert's astonishing four Magarey Medals, many plump for Robran, who won the SANFL medal three times. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SANFL (@sanfl_official) "Robran was universally regarded across South Australia as the finest footballer the state has produced in its history across the past 150 years," an AFL statement said. The chief of his SANFL club North Adelaide, Craig Burton, had no doubt, extending the Robran-Ebert debate to a national one. "We think he's number one, the greatest ever footballer," Burton said. "You'll get an argument from people in Victoria … but he was definitely right up there." The SANFL didn't take sides in its tribute, referring to the Roosters great as "among" the state's players ever. "Barrie was a champion of our game and has left an indelible mark on football in South Australia through his on-field brilliance," SANFL president Rob Kerin said. Robran was an inaugural member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and the first South Australian honoured with "legend'' status, in 2001. He dominated the SANFL from his debut in 1967 until retirement in 1980, playing 201 games for North Adelaide. He also played 17 state games and captained SA. A seven-time consecutive club best-and-fairest and dual premiership player at North, Robran's career stalled in 1974 when, playing for SA, he injured a knee in a clash with Victoria's Leigh Matthews. "As the years have gone by I've often thought: 'Had that have not happened …'," Robran had said. "It probably cost me about 150 league games here in South Australia because I was 26 when that happened. "My ambition in football was always to play until I was 40 at some appropriate level where I could play and not embarrass myself."
ABC News
20 hours ago
- ABC News
Elder's concerns for mental health of Indigenous man in high-security prison
An Aboriginal Elder says an Indigenous man is "suffering mentally and physically" inside South Australia's high-security prison, and is concerned that without intervention he could become "another death in custody". WARNING: This story contains reference to self-harm and suicide. About 70 people gathered outside Yatala Labour Prison, in Adelaide's northern suburbs, on Tuesday afternoon to protest what they described as the "cruel" and "inhumane" treatment of Indigenous man Robert William Junior Barnes. Barnes was sentenced last year to 11 years in prison for multiple offences, including assaulting a corrections worker. Former Aboriginal Liaison Officer Melanie Turner, who recently resigned, said she had been denied access to Barnes by the Department for Correctional Services (DCS). She said Ngarrindjeri Elder Uncle Major 'Moogy' Sumner had also not been allowed to visit Barnes, and so they could not provide cultural support to him. Ms Turner said Barnes had self-harmed while behind bars, and that when she had last seen him about a month ago "he wasn't doing good at all". "I've got a cultural obligation to the community to look after Robert Barnes as well, and if something had happened to him I would have felt devastated because I would have the community to explain to as well," she said. Mr Sumner said Barnes had spent "nearly 800 days" in a cell "no bigger than a bathroom" with "nothing in there for him for entertainment". "He's suffering mentally and physically," he said. Mr Sumner said he was concerned for Barnes's welfare if the situation did not change. In a statement, the Department for Correctional Services said it cannot comment on individual cases under the Correctional Services Act but it "continues to provide cultural and mental health support to identified prisoners in need across the system", including at Yatala. It also said that Mr Sumner was not banned from DCS sites, and that he was due to meet with the DCS chief executive this week. "The Department appreciates the cultural support Major Sumner continues to provide in prisons, including a visit to the Adelaide Remand Centre during NAIDOC Week last week," the statement said. It said an offer has also been made to Mr Sumner to visit Yatala next week and meet with the Aboriginal Cultural Treatment Unit team, who support prisoners in the maximum-security unit. "The Department values the contribution Elders make to our prisons, including site visits," the statement said. "The safety of any visitor along with staff and prisoners is paramount when considering access, particularly to the state's high security prisons."
