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Matthew Ward Agius - ABC News

ABC News Australia •
July 23, 2026 • 08:19 PM
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Matthew Ward Agius is a journalist for ABC News in Adelaide.

Matthew Ward Agius - ABC News

Matthew Ward Agius is a journalist for ABC News in Adelaide.

The federal government has submitted an offer to the European Space Agency (ESA) to send Australian of the Year Katherine Bennell-Pegg to the International Space Station.

A senior health official has apologised to a pregnant Adelaide woman who was moved between three hospitals while experiencing "stabbing pain" before she required emergency delivery of her baby and an operation to repair a twisted bowel.

South Australia will still support a proposed mission to send European-trained astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg to the International Space Station, despite most other states and territories declining to do the same.

SA's health minister says the state's health system has no data related to a woman or baby boy at the centre of an unexplained death at a suburban motel.

Hospital footage obtained by the family showed 64-year-old Helen Sargent being left unattended for more than an hour on a bed in a corridor at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in October 2025 before she died.

The countdown is on for the federal government to decide if it will accept an European Space Agency offer to send Australian of the Year Katherine Bennell-Pegg to the International Space Station.

The plane took off from Adelaide Airport at 10:35pm on Monday but pilots were forced to turn around before reaching the West Australian border.

More than 100 calls for help have been received by the State Emergency Service since yesterday afternoon, with 80 per cent of reports due to fallen trees.

South Australian Police have established a crime scene as they investigate the unexplained death of an infant at Tollgate Motel.

An Adelaide private hospital has notified individuals and cyber security authorities of a data breach of personal information.

Some South Australians pay more for their bus, train and tram trips in Adelaide than the equivalent journey elsewhere in Australia.

Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has been appointed South Australia's new governor, succeeding the outgoing Frances Adamson.

Topic: Governors-General and State Governors

A non-verbal man who was later diagnosed with pneumonia was ramped for more than nine hours at an outer suburbs hospital amid significant demand that the doctors union says left staff feeling "helpless".

Thousands swarmed the streets of Fremantle to watch the Dockers fall heartbreakingly short of a historic first flag.

A temporary vaccination service has been set up for a school community in Adelaide's southern suburbs after four students tested positive for measles.

A woman travelling on a Greyhound bus from Alice Springs to Adelaide has been left at a toilet stop in the middle of the night.

A union says 137 workers at the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank are slated for redundancy as part of an ongoing restructure, but the company says its plans are "yet to be finalised".

H5 bird flu has been detected for the first time in an Australian pelican, as another suspected case is reported in a sea lion off the Victor Harbor coast.

Erin Phillips and Bruce McAvaney have been inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the Adelaide Oval.

Adelaide Crows fans looking to get to Brisbane for Saturday night's do-or-die semifinal are facing soaring airfares, with some saying the cost has proved prohibitive and they won't be making the trip.

Criminal gangs continue to have Australian men and boys in their sights as targets for sexual extortion, with more than $200,000 defrauded from victims in one state.

Relatives of some of the victims of "The Family" murders are demanding the public release of the long-suppressed names of suspects linked to the case.

SA Premier Peter Malinaukas has rejected claims he misled the public over the number of trees to be felled in Adelaide's east parklands to make way for a new city motorsport track.

South Australian authorities confirm the country's first H5N1 bird flu in a common dolphin, which was found dead on the Fleurieu Peninsula.

H5N1 bird flu is suspected in a red fox found in suburban Adelaide, potentially marking the first time a mostly land-based mammal has been detected in Australia.

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