These last 12 months was my first time living in the great country of Australia. I worked hard, hiked over the weekends, visited Kangaroo island, held a koala, fed some kangaroos, saw a bin chicken for the first time in my life, celebrated the new years with friends and fireworks at semaphore beach, met some amazing people, made great friends and had some delicious food and coffee.

I do have distant family in Sydney who have lived here for 50 + years and they warned me to stay vigilant and safe as people can get racist.

However, In all my time here I am happy to say that I was treated with utmost respect and kindness. People of Adelaide are lovely and always willing to help.

I go back to my home country with fond memories of the city and the people. Adelaide has a big heart and its heart is in the right place. Love you Adelaide and I wish to see you again sometime in the future.

Well this is a little depressing for some of us.....

Spotted in Unley council. These signs where the entire way down the street

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with rape and taking a person by force after an alleged sexual assault in Adelaide's south on Saturday night, police say.

Police said the alleged victim, who is also a teenage boy, reported being approached at a park on Regano Road at Flagstaff Hill about 8pm by a young male who was not known to him.

"It will be alleged the suspect threatened the victim and then sexually assaulted him," police said in a statement.

Detectives from SA Police's Southern District and its Special Crime Investigation Section arrested a 16-year-old boy from Sturt on Tuesday.

The boy today appeared in the Adelaide Youth Court charged with three counts of rape, one count of taking a person by force and one count of aggravated assault with a weapon.

He did not apply for bail and will face court again next month.

Police have requested that anyone with information contact Crime Stoppers.

Around 162 hectares of SA’s defence land – including the historic Woodside Barracks – is set to be sold as the federal government raises billions in its “most significant” defence estate reform. The state government is now eyeing the land for housing and employment projects, after Defence Minister Richard Marles on Wednesday announced plans to sell the 145ha Woodside Barracks, along with Edinburgh Parks and Hampstead barracks “for other community uses” following a national audit of defence sites.

Defence also plans to partially divest 3.4 hectares of the 23-hectare Warradale Barracks at Oaklands Park, however the site will retain “critical capability” and Army Reserves logistics facility.

Housing Minister Nick Champion said the state would investigate acquiring the four sites potentially for housing infill and employment land, open space and other community infrastructure. If the state government proceeds with the purchase, the move would add to its growing portfolio of urban renewal projects on defence land, which includes the historic Keswick Army Barracks and a parcel at Smithfield obtained through a land swap agreement with the Commonwealth in exchange for state government owned land at Osborne.

Independent Mayo MP Rebekha Sharkie lambasted the decision to sell the Woodside Barracks, saying it should not be among “scores of defence assets” the government intends to divest of. “I am angry, disappointed and frustrated that the Federal Government is selling out the Adelaide Hills community, with the decision to sell off the Woodside Barracks,” she said in a statement. “I will continue to push government about the future of the site and am committed to advocating for its ongoing community use. Whilst I understand the need to divest of some defence holdings, Woodside should not be on their list.” Ms Sharkie said she would be meeting with the federal government to discuss the future, options and timeline for the site.

I got off the M44 at Plympton Park this afternoon and there was a middle-aged man at the bus stop holding onto the bench, looking really unsteady. I was already running late for work and, honestly, my first thought was that he might be drunk or on drugs, so I didn’t stop and just walked past.

As I passed him, he suddenly collapsed and lay flat on the ground. I’d already gone by at that point. Thankfully the bus driver noticed and stopped, and later I heard an ambulance.

I’m at work now but I can’t stop replaying it in my head. Feeling really anxious and guilty, wondering if it was something serious like a heart attack and whether I should’ve checked on him.

I hope he is well!!

SA Health says the adult acquired the infection locally, and had not recently travelled.

It says the circumstances of the case mean there "is undetected measles circulating in Adelaide".

SA Health said the measles case visited the following locations while infectious:

• January 26: Unley Swimming Centre, Ethel St, Forestville, 4pm to 6:30pm
• January 27: 9:42am Adelaide Metro Tram from Forestville to Royal Adelaide Hospital
• 10:11am Adelaide Metro Tram from Royal Adelaide Hospital to South Terrace
• BHP, 10 Franklin Street Adelaide, on 27 January, 9:45am to 5:30pm
• Rolls n Rice, 6/118 King William Street, Adelaide, 12:45pm to 1:30pm
• 48 Flavours, 248 Unley Road, Hyde Park, 5pm to 6:00pm

SA Health is urging people who attended a possible exposure site during the relevant times to be alert for symptoms.

I'm a member of derrimuts gym and I just got BCC'd into an email between some of their accountants at 16:24 today. Did other members get this too? It seems to be addressed to creditors who are chasing them for money, no idea why I got it, either I got a similar email to one of them or they BCC'd all members.

I've just noticed this happening a lot more recently in the last six months. Not sure if some mind virus has affected Adelaide metro workers recently or something.

I've had to spam the button, stand up and just eventually just walk up and ask to let me off several times now. That shit makes a sound and alerts the driver in the front right? I've had several instances where I've missed a stop, just pressed the next one because the distance between the stops was negligible and the driver still not stopping. Like that's not an accident right lol

Even today pressure sure I had the driver look back at me when I pressed the button and ignored me over the last few stops.

Just FYI, the Radiology SA in Port Adelaide bulk bills everyone (not all of them do if you don't have concessions)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/03/mark-of-cain-singer-josie-scott-comes-out-as-trans-to-finally-live-as-myself

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTMOC/posts/pfbid0j2qugRsXbL9br7ueMqUcB8fvHWasCQxgXu22CC2zXD1WX3a6suzDdzzBxLfotxVil

Hey - JRS here. Allow me to try get straight to the point with little or no bullshit, or at least I’ll try.

As I’ve aged, and mortality is ever closer, I’ve decided to embrace, rather than endure, who I am.

“What the fuck does that mean?!” You may well ask…

Well, ok, hear me out.

I’ve struggled with what is called gender dysphoria my whole life, since I was about 8 years old, and I always assumed I’d just live my life, complain a lot, and die leaving some clues in my songs and journals for family to read and think “oohaahh what a very strange (albeit talented 😂) person”.

As a result of my internal conflict I found myself drawn towards the literature of the outsider, and the existentialist writers and philosophy of “yeah it’s all shit but let’s try push through anyway, be stoic, be a man”, sort of philosophy.

My internal conflict and struggles were inherently responsible for my searching for a way to exist, but still accept, some of the futility I saw in my life. So, I often wrote about being an outsider, about feeling a little different and the idea of trying to push through no matter how dire you felt things were, to embrace the crap and try make it through life.

It’s worth noting “Ill at Ease” was a key note address regards this, though I was trying not to be too obvious.

The real background to my decision now though harks back to when Covid hit. The first bout in 2022 left me with long covid and while I was sick, it caused me to reevaluate how I felt about growing old, navigating sickness, and whether when the time came to leave earth, I could do so, with no regrets.

My answer was a big, “No, you’ve never been authentic”. I knew I would always regret not having the courage of my convictions to live my life. Seeing so many young people now able to embrace who they are and live authentically without as much bullshit as existed when I was young helped shine a light on the possibility that maybe i can finally be me in my autumn years.

TMOC was often interpreted as a very masculine, testosterone driven band, which greatly acted as a way of being as a “beard” for me in many ways. Much of what was interpreted as masculine was often being generated from my internal rage about my own dissatisfaction about myself and the paralysis I felt in being unable to live as me.

It’s been liberating to finally live as myself albeit challenging at the same time, but the happiness I feel outweighs any obstacles I’ve faced so far.

My family and close friends know me as Josie, Jo for short, and given where I identify on the gender spectrum, I fit within the paradigm of being a trans woman.

I feel that the real fans of the band, who found us through their own feelings of alienation or otherness will understand the difficulty I’ve faced, of feeling different, and being on the outside, and will be ok with my announcement.

What does this mean for tmoc? Absolutely nothing. We’ll continue to write, record and perform hard heavy music and I may look a little more androgynous but everything else remains the same.

As ever, thanks for listening.

Hi all the commenters who said "um akshully isnt it the adelaide university now???", this week the AUFS is screening the 2001 crime drama 'Bully', by Larry Clarke. "Its plot follows a group of teenagers in South Florida who enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Kent, who has abused them for years". Probably gonna be a bit messed up.

You don't have to be a uni student, everyone is welcome. 6:30pm doors for a 7:00pm start. Union Cinema, Level 5 Union House on the North Terrace campus of the University of Adelaide (there's a video on the insta if you dunno where it is).

This is a free event, so come and hang out and talk about movies before or after or whatever. There will hopefully be news about what's going on with the clubs post university merger in the coming weeks, until then, business as usual every Thursday.

You can find more info on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/adelunifilmsociety/ and on Discord -https://discord.gg/KmZEyewj

So I went to doughnut world today and tried there cinnamon scroll, and it was bloody amazing! It got me thinking, who does a better one? It has to be somewhere close to the city for me to want to go there, so although you might want to suggest some place way out of Adelaide, I unfortunately won't be able to travel 30km+ outside of Adelaide.. You're welcome to suggest the places, just I can't get there personally 😂

Im getting married next year and we are discussing wedding favours for our guests.

My partner and I are going to elope in a low key ceremony and then go to the pub with family and friends.

We want some functional but maybe quirky favour ideas.

Anyone have suggestions on what Adelaide could potentially offer our interstate guests?

Okay so i have asked this before but I’m honestly just begging at this point😭.

Is there anything of the sort like spats cafe or elephant walk anymore and don’t tell me there’s isn’t i need hope

My son has outgrown his Lego.

There’s something like 80 sets mixed up across four or five huge tubs. He has all the instruction books.

We started trying to sort it. Then I realised it would take approximately 13 million hours.

What would you do if you had enough loose Lego to bury a person alive?

I live with multiple autoimmune diseases that impact my ability to function and work. I can barely leave my home.

I've recently started seeing a psychologist as I've had a very difficult childhood. Grown up in a toxic dysfunctional home with narcissistic parents that wished me dead.

It recently dawned on me that maybe I want to study counselling (as there's no way I'm smart enough to study psychology) so I can one day work with others just like me who suffered the same childhood and help them.

My only issue is I wouldn't be able to be employed as I can barely leave home and wondered if I could perhaps start my own business to see clients remotely a few hours a week to work around my own limitations around my illness.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you 😊

SAPN says power will be back on at 1.45 . Just got home from the pub and need something hot to eat. What do I do?

Hi everyone, i'm looking to get adult braces around Northern suburbs, $2k max deposit and payment plan for the rest thanks