South Australia’s Youth Court cells do not meet “acceptable minimum standards of safety, dignity and care”, resulting in child detainees increasingly appearing in court via video link, the state’s youth detention watchdog says.
A growing number of Australians are factoring rising fuel costs into a tightening budget, including seeking cheaper alternative transport, with one charity warning the flow on effects of the crisis are causing household stress for many families.
For possibly the first time since it opened 40 years ago, the Adelaide busway has remained clear of crashed cars, in a record to be celebrated live on air.
South Australian emergency services conduct their largest mass casuality exercise in history in a bid to test coordination between agencies.
