Adelaide Energy Scheme 2024: $44M Charge Explained

A three-year effort to reconstruct fragments of hidden history for a stage production called Logan St reached performance readiness this week. The project drew on archival material to restore a street's past. Parallel stories from the same period included public comments on national issues and a space event for young people in South Australia.

Energy costs and environmental tracking

A new South Australian government energy scheme is set to collect almost $44 million from electricity users in the current financial year. Critics labelled the measure a hidden charge. Separately, a South Australian ecologist continued a 30-year record of giant earthworm sightings even though the species holds no official status in the state.

Sales of printed street directories have declined sharply from their 1980s peak yet retain a smaller customer base. Freedom of Information documents showed that South Australia's Department for Child Protection maintained 12 open staff investigations linked to care concerns at the end of February.

Sporting results and local cases

Collingwood recorded a 21-point victory against Carlton while Brisbane secured a 24-point win over West Coast. The Adelaide Crows defeated the Swans in wet conditions at the SCG and moved into the top four. A regional community affected by the 2023 shark-attack death of Simon Baccanello is advancing plans for a sporting complex in his memory.

Developers at Aston Hills Mount Barker and the owners of Wok the Duck restaurant reported that a state government compulsory acquisition announced this week had disrupted their projects. In Mount Gambier a man previously convicted of indecent acts in two food businesses entered a guilty plea on a further charge and will appear in the new South Australian Veterans Court.

Public contributions invited by the ABC this week included remarks from Sulaiman Zandinan that Australia remains amazing and from Wendy Newman that rural residents are not country bumpkins. Young South Australians met an astronaut during a Space Day Out event on Sunday. These items reflect the range of coverage published in the past several days.