Joshua Boscaini
Joshua Boscaini is a digital journalist in the Adelaide newsroom. He joined the ABC in 2017 and has previously worked in the ABC's Asia Pacific Newsroom and ABC Canberra.
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Frosty weather sends minimum temperatures below zero across parts of southern Australia
Residents across South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania woke up to freezing temperatures and frost this morning. The conditions have sent weather records tumbling across suburbs and towns across southern Australia.
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Adelaide records coldest morning in years with homelessness services on standby
Adelaide shivers through its coldest morning in years according to the BOM, with temperatures dropping below zero degrees Celsius in some parts of the city overnight.
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Natasha Stott Despoja starts role as SA domestic, family violence and sexual violence royal commissioner
Natasha Stott Despoja begins as royal commissioner into domestic, family and sexual violence in South Australia as the premier reveals about half of all assault reports in the 12 months to April were domestic violence related.
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Westfield Marion fight puts police response to the test for the first time since Bondi Junction stabbing attack
By Joshua Boscaini and Stacey Pestrin
SA Police say they had rehearsed an armed offender situation with Westfield Marion officials just days before a fight broke out in the food court of South Australia's largest shopping centre, sending it into lockdown.
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Fight triggers lockdown at Adelaide's biggest shopping centre
By Joshua Boscaini and Stacey Pestrin
SA Police says Westfield Marion's centre management issued an evacuation alarm after reports some of the people involved had weapons, including expandable batons.
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Singapore Airlines offer of compensation to passengers 'insulting', former senator says
By Joshua Boscaini and Evelyn Leckie
A former federal South Australian senator representing customers of a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence says compensation offers made to passengers on the flight is "mean and miserable".
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'Tough days ahead' says Australian couple injured on Singapore Airlines flight, as they return home to Adelaide
Keith Davis and Kerry Jordan — who were injured onboard a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore that encountered severe turbulence — have returned home to Adelaide via a medical evacuation flight.
Member of the public picked up dead train driver's phone after horrific truck crash, ATSB reveals
Rail authorities were alerted to the fatal consequences of a train and truck crash in SA's north when a member of the public answered one of the dead drivers' phones, a preliminary report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau finds.
Singapore Airlines CEO visits Australian couple 'in limbo' after turbulent flight
By South-East Asia correspondent Bill Birtles in Bangkok, Joshua Boscaini and Josephine Lim
An Australian man injured on the Singapore Airlines aircraft that suffered extreme turbulence this week says he hopes to bring his wife home in a medical flight.
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Penalties for 'vicious' dog attacks to be strengthened in SA under proposed law reforms
The South Australian government has moved to impose tougher penalties for dog attacks under proposed reforms to the state's Dog and Cat Management Act.
One Australian state wants to impose a social media ban for under 14s, but how would it work?
Children under 14 could be banned from having social media accounts in South Australia, with a review now underway. Here's a look at what is being proposed.
Last year, 13 children died after contracting influenza. Authorities want to remind parents it is 'a nasty disease in children'
By Joshua Boscaini, Jordanna Schriever , and Evelyn Leckie
Parents of children born during the COVID-19 pandemic are being urged to get their children flu shots, with almost 5,000 cases in children aged zero to four so far this year.
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Local football team scores remarkable 516-0 win in Adelaide Footy League game
The Fitzroy Community Club thrashed the Elizabeth Football Club at the round four game in Adelaide's north on Saturday, scoring 82 goals and 24 behinds.
Former Liberal MP Nicolle Flint to recontest Adelaide seat of Boothby at next federal election
Former federal Liberal MP Nicolle Flint, who quit politics over claims of sexism and harassment, has announced she will recontest the southern Adelaide seat of Boothby at the next federal election.
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Protests against 'epidemic of male violence' kick off around country
Advocacy groups are demanding the government declare violence against women a national emergency after the alleged killing of three women by men known to them.
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Adelaide's rental market is tight. So why not convert vacant offices into apartments?
By Joshua Boscaini and Evelyn Leckie
The city's lord mayor pushes for Adelaide's aging and empty office spaces to be converted into homes, as the city overtakes Perth with the tightest rental property market. But experts say it is not always easy to re-purpose an office building for housing.
More than 250,000 attend Gather Round games, SA Premier announces wine region location for 2025
By Joshua Boscaini and Bethanie Alderson
One of Australia's premier wine regions will host a Gather Round game next year, with the AFL estimating more than a quarter of a million attendees across matches at the weekend.
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Supermarket trials GPS trackers on expensive cuts of meat to curb theft from stores
A South Australian supermarket chain is trialling GPS trackers on packages of expensive cuts of meat at two of its stores in a bid to prevent theft.
SA ambulance ramping hits near-record levels amid 'extreme' pressure on the system
Ambulance ramping at South Australia's public hospitals reached near-record levels last month, with the state government citing "extreme" pressure on the health system.
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Moon mining rover set to utilise 'infinite resources and energy of space', extracting oxygen and metals from lunar soil
By Olivia Mason and Joshua Boscaini
An Australian-built lunar rover has been designed to help extract resources like oxygen and metals to enable astronauts to breathe in space and create rocket fuel during NASA's next mission to the moon.
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Dunstan voters head to the polls in tightly contested by-election trigged by Steven Marshall's departure
Voters in the inner-eastern Adelaide seat of Dunstan head to the polls today to elect a new state member of parliament, after former South Australian premier Steven Marshall vacated his seat in February.
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A false positive on a roadside drug test saw a man lose his licence. How widely are they used in Australia?
By Joshua Boscaini and Daniel Keane
Roadside instant drug testing is under scrutiny after an Adelaide driver falsely tested positive to methamphetamine, but experts say the benefits of their use may outweigh the risks.
Forest fire contained at Highbury in the Mount Lofty Ranges amid extreme heat across SA
Firefighters have contained a bushfire at Highbury in the Mount Lofty Ranges as total fire bans remain in place across six districts in South Australia.
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Review finds ramping 'major contributor' in delay for Adelaide man who died while waiting for ambulance
A review into the circumstances surrounding the death of an Adelaide man who waited 10 hours for an ambulance has found ambulance ramping was a "major contributor" to the delay in reaching the patient and in call-backs due to a high volume of triple-0 calls.
WOMADelaide has 'bat bins' on stand-by, Adelaide Cup to go ahead amid SA heatwave
WOMADelaide organisers say they have "bat bins" on stand-by to remove bat carcasses from the festival ground, with the Adelaide Cup going ahead amid a heatwave forecast for most parts of South Australia in the coming days.
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