User Profile

03 Sep 2025

The Courier, September 3, 2025

Click here

03 Sep 2025

Letters

Letters, August 27, 2025

Constructive ideas IN recent weeks your letters pages have carried repeated claims dismissing the reality of climate change and contemplating conspiracies that are devoid of truth as much as they make no effort to improve our community’s...

Click here

News

Back from the brink

Conservation work at Monarto Safari Park has helped bring the scimitar-horned oryx back from the brink of extinction. The native African animal was declared extinct in the wild in 2000, leading to a global conservation effort to save it, including...

Click here

The Courier, August 27, 2025

Click here

Editorial

Start of a new era

The Adelaide Hills and Mt Barker councils have experienced extreme turmoil in the past months, including allegations of bullying and disputes over councillor behavior. This has led to councillors resigning from both councils, resulting in...

Click here

Letters

Letters, August 20, 2025

Carbon solution SA IS in the middle of a disastrous toxic algal bloom and since the solution is basically simple primary school arithmetic, I thought I should respond. Let’s start with some facts: It is my understanding that sustainable...

Click here

20 Aug 2025

Editorial

Attendance accountability

The Adelaide Hills Council’s decision to investigate the amount of leave taken by councillors is a good step forward. The council has experienced a turbulent term so far, with claims of bullying and three councillor resignations alongside major...

Click here

20 Aug 2025

The Courier, August 20, 2025

Click here

20 Aug 2025

Letters

Letters, August 13, 2025

Pointless rules I NOTICED in The Courier that Leyton Property has gone over the Mt Barker Council’s head and taken their development planning application to the ERD Court after it was rejected by the council assessment panel. It appears large...

Click here

13 Aug 2025

The Courier, August 13, 2025

Click here

13 Aug 2025

News

Sleeping ‘Blue-ty’

A koala had an early morning adventure inside the Heysen Tunnels over the weekend. SA Police said the koala was spotted by traffic cameras around 4.15am on Sunday, August 3, on an elevated ledge inside the tunnel and appeared to have settled in for...

Click here

06 Aug 2025

Editorial

Time is running out

The Mt Barker Council’s report into the status of the arterial road network in the town has revealed what anyone who lives here already knows. The arterial roads – chiefly Adelaide, Wellington and Flaxley roads – face significant issues due to...

Click here