By Kate Foreman Limestone Coast friends, Anne Legoe, Deb Mackey, Lisa Enright and Kristal Tonkin, sure are passionate about their little slice of coastline – so passionate they’re sharing it with the world. That’s exactly what they’ve been doing since 2012 in their volunteer roles as Robe Tourism Association‘s marketing sub-committee. From marketing, photography, design and styling, […]
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By Gabrielle Hall With its Riesling Trail already leading the way to the discovery of some of the best Clare Valley wines, a food trail will now be added to a list of attractions in the region. Via a new online, interactive map showcasing some of the region’s epicurean delights, the Clare Valley Food Trail features almost 40 local producers,
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By Kerrie Lush Margaret Howie attended her first South Australian Rural Women’s Gathering on a whim just over 12 months ago. It was a spur of the moment decision to attend the event at Bordertown last winter. She’d lost her husband Richard to cancer just nine months before and was feeling a little lost. She convinced
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By Andrew Spence The tale of an undersized bushranger who rode around on an ostrich robbing travellers at gunpoint is helping to put an South Australian town crippled by drought back on the map. The South Australian community of Meningie on the banks of Lake Albert about 150km southeast of Adelaide was hit hard by
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By Andrew Spence Talk show host and wine lover, Graham Norton, is releasing a South Australian Shiraz following the international success of his Sauvignon Blanc. The Irish comedian teamed up with New Zealand’s Invivo Wines in 2014 and has sold more than 500,000 bottles of their 2015 Graham Norton’s Own Sauvignon Blanc By Invivo in
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By Ian Williams Three years, six at the most. That’s as long as Rob Hancock was ever going to stay in the remote South Australian opal mining town of Andamooka. He arrived in 1985 with business partner Jim Blackmore to run the local hotel while the massive Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine and its thirsty miners
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By Alannah James Adelaide Hills journalist Prue Adams has told thousands of stories in her long career, but none have impacted more than her report on the debilitating disease, Q-Fever. Prue’s report, ‘The Quiet Fever’ aired on ABC’s Landline in 2015, and was a long form exploration of the somewhat unspoken disease Q-Fever and its
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By Ian Williams Quality eye care is a service which award-winning therapeutic optometrist Dr Tamra Karolewicz believes should be a right for everyone – and she’s been clocking up some serious miles to ensure people on the Eyre Peninsula don’t miss out. Based at Eyre Eye Centre in Port Lincoln, Tamra makes an eight-hour round-trip
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By Gabrielle Hall Thirty four years ago a group of farmers had a vision to do some cropping trials and throw open the paddock gate for a field day to share the results with like-minded grain growers. Fast forward to 2016 and that same agronomy field day at Hart – between Blyth and Brinkworth in
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By Kerrie Lush The Murray River Queen is being restored to its former glory to provide visitors and locals with a Riverland food and wine experience. It’s owners Matt and Susan Major of Major Ventures bought the Murray River Queen boat on the Waikerie riverfront almost four years ago. Recognising a need for harvest labour
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