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Stephanie Richards

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 14, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Stephanie Richards

    'What are they hiding?' Advocate calls on SA premier to release child death review (opens the original)

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    A freedom of information request from the ABC for a copy of an almost four-year-old report into SA's child protection system has been refused by the state government. In 2022, Premier Peter Malinauskas had committed to releasing the report. The state government has said it will release the Hyde report "as soon as it is legally able to". A prominent child protection advocate has accused the South Australian premier of breaking a promise, after his department refused to release the findings of a r

  2. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Stephanie Richards

    'Living in limbo': One year on from Gus Lamont's disappearance (opens the original)

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    There is a grey, liminal space where loved ones of missing people often find themselves in the aftermath of disappearance. Social workers describe it as a feeling of ambiguous loss. Missing persons researcher Professor Sarah Wayland knows the space well. She has spent the past 25 years supporting families of missing people, including, most recently, a member of Gus Lamont's family. "The family did reach out to me because of the significant challenges in Australia in that there are very limited s

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Stephanie Richards

    Housing Trust apologises to tenant after delays to remove black mould (opens the original)

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    The South Australian Ombudsman has found the Housing Trust failed to ensure a property met "reasonable standards of health and safety" despite multiple reports of black mould from the tenant. In years following the first complaint, the problem worsened, and the ombudsman found the contamination would not meet minimum housing standards. Four recommendations have been issued to the Housing Trust, including that it change its complaints handling procedure. The SA Housing Trust has apologised to one

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · By Stephanie Richards

    Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds (opens the original)

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    Australia's pre-colonial population estimate has been revised, suggesting the number of Indigenous people on the continent was at least twice as large as previously thought. Diseases and settler violence caused an estimated 2.06 million to die after the arrival of the First Fleet. Based on current trends, it would take another 21 years for Australia's Indigenous population to reach pre-colonisation numbers. Australia's Indigenous population was up to seven times larger before colonisation than p

  5. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Stephanie Richards

    Cost of SA's aged care 'crisis' revealed as stranded patients wait for beds (opens the original)

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    Over $123 million was spent by the South Australian government last year caring for patients in hospital who were waiting for aged care beds. The SA Health minister Blair Boyer said there was 487 people waiting for a residential aged care bed who are in public hospital or transition care bed. Mr Boyer is calling on his federal counterpart to do more to fix the "crisis", with a federal government spokesperson saying it will continue working with states and territories. The South Australian govern

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