Bizarre bin sticker bungle | The Pangallaissance | SA’s top office dogs | The ‘pride’ of South Australia

InSider is back, and we have plenty to talk about. This week, we show you how a bin sticker story is born and killed and born again, take you through social media feuds and fake endorsements and crown our favourite pooches.

Aug 22, 2025, updated Aug 22, 2025
I know you missed me, XOXO...Photo: InSider
I know you missed me, XOXO...Photo: InSider

Your favourite Friday read is back (sorry, literally everything else InDaily publishes on a Friday). You’ll have to forgive its absence; it’s been flu season after all, but this week there has been too much happening for InSider to ignore.

From a bin sticker newsroom debacle, to Trev rearing his satanic head with a poorly timed message for the Crows. We’ve also got the latest political feuds playing out on social media and the one you won’t want to miss: top office dogs. Happy reading.

Bizarre bin sticker bungle

InSider started the week with a zip around the leafy city-fringe of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters…a zip that is more of a crawl these days because, as of July, in residential streets it’s 40km/h and InSider is, of course, a law-abiding citizen.

We were perusing the area off the back of a tip that reminders of the speed limit with the authorisation of local member, Labor’s Cressida O’Hanlon, had been stuck on trees.

City-fringe suburb, angry residents, speed limit changes, signs stapled to trees and a politician potentially mixed up in it all: that is basically the venn diagram of weird news shit people in Adelaide will read about.

The bin sticker in question.

We spent some time building the case. We determined the signs were actually bin stickers, handed out by O’Hanlon’s office, encouraging the community to do their bit and remind the neighbourhood that slower streets are safer.

At first, we thought O’Hanlon was out there herself stapling them into the trunks (she wasn’t), and we even had some fiery quotes from the Liberal Shadow Government Accountability Minister Ben Hood MLC about how if it was her (again, it wasn’t), the “stunt” potentially breached a bunch of laws.

As we braced ourselves to break the internet with the bizarre story, we thought we’d better do our due diligence, scan the site for how many signs were actually out there, and find out conclusively who put them up.

Our hopes were dashed when we could only find two bin stickers turned tree signs. And after hearing denials from O’Hanlon and Hood that neither was out there with a staple gun themselves, and an awkward phone call to the local council, we deduced it was just one angry resident who was fed up with hoons on their street.

Egg on us, I guess.

So the story was dead. And InSider is not above admitting when we’ve been led on a wild goose chase.

But in an attempt to salvage the story, we wondered how much it would have cost to print the stickers in the first place – and whether it is the place of an MP to do so.

Especially an MP whose government banned corflutes, and is an A3 bin sticker, not just a stickier corflute?

Well, no. According to O’Hanlon, we cannot compare the two.

“Wheelie bin stickers are a helpful, legal and frequently used method of getting across important community messages,” O’Hanlon said.

“The stickers are less intrusive and far more environmentally friendly than corflutes. While corflutes are banned, wheelie bin stickers are specifically permitted by our electoral laws (see s22(2)(e) of the Electoral Regulations 2024).”

But we hadn’t given up! A quick call to the company that printed the stickers told us that they go for about $9 each, excluding GST, and they’re made to hold up against the weather.

According to a community profile of the area, there are about 18,000 dwellings in the area.

A quick internet search also told us that bin stickers don’t come cheap. One Australian site charges as much as $58 for a four-pack, bringing it to $14.50 for one! So it seems O’Hanlon got a pretty good deal (consider this your reminder to shop local).

So consider this InSider’s mea culpa. We’re just glad we got to share our tale of the bin sticker goose chase one way or another. We’re just surprised that while we were ringing around validating the bin sticker bungle that we didn’t see a genuine headline in The Advertiser about it.

Trev means only harm

InSider is sad to report we’re still taunted by that pesky bee.

If we haven’t made it clear by now, then let this be the final reminder: wherever Trev goes, he leaves places worse off.

When the Adelaide Thunderbirds announced they’d partnered with RAA on July 8 – donning the yellow logos on their dresses and leaving Trev placeholders on courtside seats – it only took two games to have their season finished. They lost to the Melbourne Vixens in an elimination semi-final just under two weeks after the announcement. This was only the second game after the partnership was announced, and the first loss in a finals series in three years.

We were sent an anonymous tip by a Crows supporter, who attended the Adelaide Crows and Collingwood game at the weekend.

Is there any coincidence that only days after this very banner was erected from the Adelaide Oval grounds on the night of the Collingwood and Crows clash, the Adelaide Crows would have one of their very own – Izak Rankine – spit a homophobic term at a Collingwood player, resulting in a four-week suspension?

InSider doesn’t think so.

Oh, Crows fans, you should’ve known! No good can come from that hairy, disgusting human-like bee – we’ve been warning you for over a year now!

Any relation to Trev the [evil] Bee should be looked at with caution moving forward.

The Pangallaissance

While InSider was chasing bin stickers in Dunstan, over in the inner-south east seat of Waite, there was a Pangallaissance: complete with Liberal-blue watchdog merch and awkward handshakes.

Joining the party has certainly put some pep in Legislative Councillor Frank Pangallo’s step. Still, it seems a pesky ex-Liberal wants to crash the honeymoon, baiting Pangallo into a social media feud.

It all started when Pangallo claimed on socials that Local Government Minister Joe Szakacs’ council election reform plans were Pangallo’s idea.

Councillor Henry Davis, who left the Liberals earlier this month and is gunning for his own seat in the Legislative Council on Sarah Game’s new party ticket, said that Frank got the idea from him.

Davis conveyed that in a social media post in the same style as Pangallo’s, but goes a step further, signing off from ‘Frank’ with Love.

In case there was any confusion, Davis made this to look as if it came from Frank Pangallo. Photo: Instagram.

A few hours later, Pangallo hit back, comparing Davis’ attempt to take credit for the reforms to “gate-crashing a wedding and demanding the honeymoon” signing off as “the one who wrote the vows”.

He also affectionately(?) refers to Davis as “Hank” in the post, a play on the H in Henry and his aspiration to be Frank? Or perhaps they’ll bury the hatchet, and Hank will be the name of their bromance moving forward.

Seems like a beachside honeymoon…

Or perhaps not, because this morning Davis hit back with a postcard telling Pangallo that Davis “taking action” is a reason the law is changing, with an extra jab at the Liberals.

He’s popped the last postcard in a carousel next to a Photoshop created by our friends at CityMag of him and Rex Patrick wearing boxing gloves from the time Davis represented Patrick to dispute the council election result of 2022.

The posts also appeared on Facebook, where both Pangallo and Davis seem to be crying out for a Canva subscription.

Except, Patrick withdrew the legal challenge against now Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith, and said at the time that new evidence indicated alleged illegal activity did not impact her appointment.

After Patrick chose to withdraw, Davis did have a short stint filling some court documents for Alexander Hyde, when Hyde contested the Central Ward result, which later saw four seats voided.

But given he left the Liberals, and Hyde is the state director, InSider imagines there’s no love lost there.

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Despite InSider’s best efforts, we can find no official credit to Davis in the court records.

But we’ll let our readers decide if Davis needs a trip to the leg factory to find something to stand on here.

Back to the nature of the bizarre social media exchange. We shouldn’t make this an age thing; the 70-year-old Pangallo’s already warned others this week against that. But it would be remiss of us not to talk about the quality of the posts.

InSider, being young and spry but cautious of falling into the brain-rotted algorithm of TikTok, first saw the series of odd enemies-to-lovers, will-they-won’t-they (does-anybody-actually-care) posts on Instagram.

Though it’s clear from the unlinking URL’s in Pangallo’s caption that he built it on Facebook. Davis, through emulating Pangallo’s style, has infected his own account with the look.

Either way, both Pangallo and Davis lose aura points for the display.

Wanted…or not

Town Hall also provided us with plenty of fodder this week, but that’s been well-documented in an article (videos and all) on InDaily earlier this week. Probably for the best, if InSider had written about the embarrassing display, it would have been far less fair.

But on the topic of council drama, we have another social media-sourced titbit.

Council hopeful and last listed on the ballot paper for the Central Ward supplementary election, Raymond Khabbaz – who was escorted out of Town Hall on Tuesday – claimed an endorsement from the Lord Mayor Jane Lomax Smith.

Khabbaz did so by taking Lomax-Smith’s ‘I want you’ style poster advertising citizen of the year nominations, and co-opting it for his own campaign.

The post on LinkedIn sees Khabbaz “answer the call”.

But if anyone isn’t as chronically online with a sick SA-centric algorithm like us, you could have missed the Lord Mayor’s original citizen of the year callout, so we thought we’d debunk it for you anyway.

Unlike other councillors who publicly got behind candidates, or even Labor MPs door-knocking with Labor candidates, the Lord Mayor isn’t publicly backing anyone in this 19-horse race.

“I have been careful throughout the supplementary election to not endorse any of the 19 candidates,” she told InSider.

And it seems after Tuesday night’s display, she trusts she doesn’t have to start now.

“However, based on my observations of Mr Khabbaz in a public setting, my endorsement isn’t something he needs to worry about,” she said.

The true pride of South Australia

Photo: Facebook

There’s a light at the end of the tunnel for South Australia’s ultimate football team, the Port Adelaide Football Club.

When InSider was browsing Facebook, a post in the “You Know You’re From Port Adelaide / LeFevre Peninsula When…” group caught our attention.

Set in the picturesque grounds of Adelaide’s closest thing to Mecca, the Alberton Oval, was a digital billboard promoting football god Travis Boak’s final game.

Out of Boak’s hand sprouted a gorgeous, vibrant rainbow.

We don’t know if Boaky has any Irish heritage, but he’s still our (very tall) leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Let’s hope it’s a sign of good things ahead for Port Adelaide.

Best in show

And to leave you on a more wholesome note, we have to take a moment for South Australia’s final nominees revealed for the OZTOPDOG 2025 competition.

The event is in its fifth year, and if anyone dared cancel it (and make no mistake, it is the only thing slowing InSider’s descent into madness, a path lined with bin stickers and politicians’ dodgy social media posts), there would be riots.

Of the seven SA finalists, here are InSider’s top three, in no particular order. You can see the full list and vote for your favourites on the Oz Top Dog website.

Zeb, a Labrador Retriever from Adelaide, is Australia’s only dog accredited to enter a courtroom, supporting victims and witnesses of crime.

Zeb is up for the category ‘Top Dog With A Job’. Photos: supplied.

Also up for ‘Top Dog with a Job’ is Bruce, a Fox Terrier Maltese Cross with a few other breeds thrown in.

Bruce is 17 years old and works at Gary J Smith Real Estate in Plympton.

Chase would have got our attention anyway with his fluffy face, but it’s his job title, as ‘Furnancial Advisor’, that firmly placed him in our hearts.

Chase, the Siberian Husky, is also up for Top Office Dog.
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