The weekend catch-up
Missed something in InDaily? Here are quick links to the best news, opinion and features from Adelaide’s independent news website this week.
Question of the week
Could the scandals surrounding the Education Department get any worse? Unfortunately, the answer is ‘yes’.
News
Premier Jay Weatherill suspended a ministerial staffer pending an investigation into the leak of internal government strategy documents to the media.
The operators of the dump burning at Wingfield are in legal dispute with the Environment Protection Authority.
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Labor powerbroker Don Farrell paid back taxpayer funding he mistakenly claimed for a trip to last year’s AFL Grand Final because his flights and accommodation had already been paid for by grocery chain Foodland.
Our questions go unanswered over the strange case of Families SA employing a convicted embezzler as a financial counsellor.
More than two years after it was ordered, the Auditor-General has reported on the controversial outsourcing of the SA Visitor and Travel Centre. His findings aren’t pretty.
Bad news for South-East potato growers as McCain shuts its Penola processing plant.
The US Congress finally sorts out its budget impasse – and the markets soar.
Opinion
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InDaily editor David Washington defends the right of artists to consider tragic events in their work. The debate was sparked by concerns over a proposed opera, based on a novel which itself is loosely based on the disappearance of the Beaumont children. Some readers disagreed.
Fran Baum from Flinders University argues that South Australia’s cuts to community health services will cost us more in the long run.
Are Adelaide’s pop-shops a threat or an opportunity for retail? Pop-up bookshop operator Nick Patrick argues the real enemy is elsewhere.
Former Adelaide lawyer Lucy Travers send us a postcard from New York.
Arts & culture
Reviews of State Theatre’s latest show, the Adelaide Film Festival, the latest rom-com from Richard Curtis, and much more.
Food & wine
Philip White reports on a stoush between one of SA’s foremost wine magazines and the Winemakers Federation of Australia; The Forager’s latest food news, including catering plans for the new Adelaide Oval; are fruit and vegetables better juiced or whole?; our regular market day feature, this time looking at cooking with asparagus; and White’s wine reviews.
Design
We dip our toe into the world of fashion, with tips for op-shop success; and Planning Institute president Iris Iwanicki presents her ideas for improving South Australia’s planning system.
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