Portal:South Australia/News/Archive

This is an archive for all listings used at Portal:South Australia/News, in reverse chronological order.

January 2008

 * Jan 17: Alliance Resources announces that it will begin a uranium mining trial at the Four Mile uranium project near Arkaroola by the middle of the year, which could make South Australia home to four of Australia's five uranium mines. More...
 * Jan 14: A fall in university and TAFE applications for 2008, with young South Australians opting for unskilled positions instead, raises warnings that the state's greatest problem over the next decade could be an under-educated workforce. More
 * Jan 4: BoM releases its annual climate statement, showing that 2007 has been Adelaide's hottest year since records began in 1887, stressing the need to tackle climate change; total fire bans continue in much of the state for fear of bushfires (pictured). More

December 2007

 * Dec 29: Former Guantanamo Bay inmate and convicted Al-Qaeda operative David Hicks is released from Yatala Labour Prison.
 * Dec 29: As temperatures rise across the state, Country Fire Service issues its highest level alert to volunteers, due to the chance of bushfires (pictured).
 * Dec 28: The Australian Greenhouse Office's latest figures show that South Australia has the second lowest greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the nation.
 * Dec 27: An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale shakes the Flinders Ranges town of Hawker.
 * Dec 22: Heavy rains fall on much of the state, including inland regions like Tarcoola, bringing relief to areas crippled with drought and stringent water restrictions.
 * Dec 21: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appoints South Australian politicians Penny Wong and Warren McCann as co-chairs of a national working group on climate change and water, whose major objective is to ease negotiations between South Australia and Victoria regarding the Murray River.
 * Dec 19: The South Australian education body, SSABSA, publish the Tertiary Entrance Rank scores for secondary school students.
 * Dec 18: The count in the final South Australian Senate seat from the federal election is officially declared by the Electoral Commission, with Greens member Sarah Hanson-Young successful on preferences.