South Australia

Australia bushfires: Scott Morrison apologises for taking family vacation at a time when deadly wildfires raged across country

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison cut short vacation with his wife and adult children amid public anger at his absence from Australia at a time of national crisis

Australia cricketers to raise toast to 'absent friend' Phillip Hughes on five-year anniversary of batsman's tragic death

25-year-old Hughes died after being struck by a bouncer on the neck while batting for South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match in Sydney five years ago

India vs Australia: How minor tweaks in Nathan Lyon's bowling action have made him a successful spinner

Lyon might be a world beater now, but there were minor tweaks that had to be made to his bowling action during those early days that have allowed him to be more successful than any other finger spinner in the Australian conditions.

India vs Australia: At 24, Travis Head must grab opportunity to cement middle-order spot for the long term

With Smith missing from this line-up, Head should be setting himself to score at least 400 runs in the series and give the middle order the stability they desperately need and cement his place in the side.

Australia ball-tampering scandal: Steve Smith's time as captain is up after pre-planned cheating, says former pacer Jason Gillespie

Jason Gillespie said there was no way Steve Smith could possibly continue as the full-time captain of the national side given his central role in a ball-tampering scandal that has "torched" the reputation of the team and stunned world cricket

South Australia promises world's largest virtual power plant backed by Tesla's Powerwall batteries

The project to build world's largest virtual power plant would begin with a trial on 1,100 public housing homes, the government said on its website.

World's largest solar thermal power plant approved by South Australian govt for an estimated $509 million

Construction on the 150-megawatt Aurora plant, to be built by utility-scale solar power company SolarReserve, will begin in 2018.

South Australia travel diary: Kangaroos, koalas are just the tip of the region's teeming wildlife

A trip to South Australia would be incomplete without seeing the teeming wildlife

Tesla's just turned on the world's largest lithium-ion battery and it's feeding Australia's power grid

Highlighting industry hopes for the take-up of battery storage, Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited the site some 225 km north of Adelaide in July.

Australian police foil 'attack' on school by two teenagers, say they prevented a catastrophe

Two teenagers have been charged with planning an attack using guns and explosives on a Australian school and police said they intended to kill multiple people. The plot targeting the school in South Australia's fruit-producing Riverland region, northeast of Adelaide, came to the attention of authorities earlier this month and the two young men were arrested soon afterwards.