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  • Smug One’s silo mural highlights Kapunda’s copper mining past

    Smug One’s silo mural highlights Kapunda’s copper mining past

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    Produced and curated by renowned street art collective Juddy Roller, a flagship landmark artwork now towers 30 metres above the ground and is a celebration of the town’s deeply rooted history of neighbourly camaraderie. After more than five weeks of painting through rain, hail, and shine, Smug One’s mural is an ode to the region’s…

  • Briefcase: Business snippets from around SA

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    Oz Minerals backs Kapunda copper project SA companies win portable rocket launcher contract New food venture takes off at Adelaide Airport Govt calls for export grant submissions Oz Minerals backs Kapunda copper project The Kapunda Copper Mine. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Oz Minerals will be kicking in $2.5m to investigate the potential for in-situ copper recovery…

  • My Town: Ross Vogt, Kapunda

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    Gleaming in the Mid-North sunlight as it gently rumbles down Kapunda’s main street, Ross Vogt’s 1937 Plymouth sedan is quite a sight. Like something out of an American gangster film with its round headlights, whitewall tyres and steel grille, the grand old Plymouth is a visual clue to locals that the 97-year-old is out and…

  • Unearthing a traditional Irish village in a Kapunda field

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    Archaeological research has uncovered the remains of a 19th-century Irish community beneath an otherwise ordinary paddock in rural South Australia. Fitting the clustered form of settlement known as a “clachan”, it’s the first to be identified in Australia. Even more remarkably, this community thrived many years after this traditional way of living died out in…

  • SA Agricultural Town of the Year finalist: Kapunda

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    The town proudly promotes its links to famous pastoralist Sir Sidney Kidman along with historic Anlaby Station, once owned by the Dutton family and still home to the state’s oldest merino sheep stud. Its inhabitants are now working together to ensure they layer new achievements in the region’s agricultural history, supporting growth in its grain,…

  • Top 5 most-haunted Adelaide spots

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    5. Migration Museum Until 1918 the old bluestone building on Kintore Ave was known as “Adelaide’s Destitute Asylum”. This is a much spookier name than what that institution would have been called today – likely something like “Temporary Accommodation for the Homeless” – but I guess they were quite skilled at infusing a chill-factor into…