SA town wins race for $59 million laminated timber plant

A small forestry town in the state’s South East has beaten metropolitan Melbourne to be chosen as the site of a hi-tech laminated timber plant.

Mt Gambier's drones of the future

When LC Aerial started in business its owners spent weeks building their own drones, now its talented photographers are buying off the shelf to photograph and film anything from sawdust piles to Mt Gambier’s Blue Lake.

Environmental activists and landowners from the South East protest against fracking. AAP image

"Green" Liberals under fire from business

The state’s peak business lobby has lamented the Liberal Opposition’s south-east fracking moratorium as a policy “more aligned with the Greens” than a party of business.

Railing for a South-East solution

A fast train line from Adelaide to Mount Gambier would provide an economic boost to the state’s South-East, write Richard Blandy and Edwin Michell in the latest of a series of articles arguing the case for regional fast rail in SA.