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A $2.3 million funding agreement between the Federal Government and native titleholders to reduce reoffending in South Australia’s far north has been abandoned.
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Coober Pedy is the eccentric outback town renowned for its opals and underground dugouts, but roll around every Saturday night and scenes of Hollywood will flicker before your eyes.
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Driving off the beaten track in far north South Australia is not for the faint-heated – especially when your adventure takes you underground. But there are plenty of hidden gems to discover in the strangely Mars-like landscape, writes Stephanie Richards.
Local Government Minister Stephan Knoll has given Coober Pedy Council three weeks to explain why he shouldn’t shut it down and replace the elected members with an administrator.
A South Australian council was assured by a senior state bureaucrat that Crown law had legally ‘covered off’ a controversial power deal, 20 months before the same council was found guilty of “serious maladministration” over agreeing to sign the agreement without going through its internal procurement processes.
A deal designed in offices in the city and negotiated largely between several layers of government and corporate executives looks set to bring down a tiny local council. David Washington asks whether an Ombudsman’s investigation into serious maladministration has left some of the biggest questions unanswered.
