Law Society of South Australia

Dear Australia: Postcards from a pandemic

South Australian writers and actors have lent their talents to a national project that will see the simultaneous livestreaming this week of 50 ‘fearless and inspiring’ short works capturing the COVID zeitgeist.

How your views will affect abortion law change

Amendments to abortion law reform, informed by more than 3,000 public submissions, will be presented to the State Government this parliamentary session.

Aboriginal lives matter most on Australia Day

Over an hour-long interview, AGSA curator Nici Cumpston gently and eloquently debunks our publisher’s prejudices and preconceptions about the John Mawurndjul exhibition and the great many things we have to celebrate about Aboriginal culture.

Top 5 South Australian firsts

People in Adelaide have been doing things for a long time, and sometimes they were the first people to do these things. Here are a variety of semi-humorous descriptions of some of those times, delivered to you the reader in highly-readable list form.

Abortion has been decriminalised in SA

After months of debate in the Upper and Lower House, SA Parliament this week supported a bill making abortion a healthcare issue rather than criminal law issue, and allowing later-term procedures and greater access.

City of Adelaide has axed plans to build an east-west bikeway

City of Adelaide councillors this week voted to scrap plans for an east-west bikeway, with one councillor calling the move "an utter failure of leadership".

‘We’re here for all the women that came before us and all the women that will come ahead of us’

Thousands of protesters took to Tarntanyangga Victoria Square on Monday in solidarity with victims of rape and sexual assault. Tears and compounded frustration reverberated through the crowd, against the permeance of gendered violence through everyday life.

Adelaide’s nightlife is not accessible to everyone

Twelve months after the State Government unveiled a plan to improve disability inclusion in South Australia, much of Adelaide’s nightlife remains inaccessible to people living with disabilities.