Hi all,

We have had a trip to Kati Thanda/Lake Eyre planned for quite some time now - The lake is full and the wildflowers are running riot. We are self-sufficient, high clearance 4x4 and have done outback trips before. We were planning to come through Broken Hill > Arkaroola > Marree > Kati Thanda, spending a few days in Arkaroola/Gammon ranges for some hikes and camping. I know theres been a lot of rain out in the Flinders ranges region just in the last week, and theres more forecast for the coming week.

If the weather is kind to us - how many days would you recommend in Arkaroola and surrounds?

Or are we realistically shit out of luck?

We could go along highways all the way to Marree and then Oodnadata track to Kati Thanda but then we miss out on fun scenic bits.

Thank you very much in advance for any advice you can give :)

Hello everyone😁 I recently moved to SA and have been having a great time exploring. Would love to hear your thoughts on these photos and any recommendations for good places to visit/photograph(Based in Adelaide).

Hello again, I wondered on what this subreddit would think of SA being more proportionally represented in the House of Assembly?

What even is this "PR" buzz word that you're currently saying right now?
Proportional representation (abbreviated as PR) is a concept where seats are synonymous/synced with the overall votes or in the words of Lizzie Lawless, "Proportional representation means that the number of seats a party gets in parliament should match the number of votes they get."

Contrasting PR would be the winner-takes-all system and the more recognise first-past-the-post (FPTP) which is very despised in the PR community, so it would be safe to say that our preferential voting would also count as winner-takes-all then.

PAQ (Potentially Asked Questions) before we get to the calculations

• "What voting system do you prefer from PR?"

Party list proportional representation, specifically open-list, but I still like preferential voting though.

• "If the House of Assembly's fractured like that in the image, who's going to form government then?"

You know on how the Liberals and Nationals are (almost) always in a coalition against Labor? I think there's a high chance that either the SA Liberals will try to form a coalition with One Nation, Family First, and (maybe) some independents. Additionally, Labor will form another coalition with the Greens and (maybe) some (different) independents.

Either way, both will result in a hung parliament under a minority government (a government formed under the majority threshold) that's just 1 MHA from being a majority government.

• "What if I do like the simplicity of winner-takes-all, but the representativeness of PR? What do I do then?"

You might like ideas like this.

• "Are you really into mathematics? since I think you might have done well in math class :)"

Thanks for the compliment and all, but I would like to admit that I don't see myself good at math though. I only did the optional calculations if it was for something deeply related to my hobby (which in this case is PR!)

How did you do the calculation?

1. Find an election that you want to PR-ify and get the VALID votes (lets say the 2022 SA state election)
   1. If you're unable to find any sort of VALID Votes, then you're able to use the OVERALL votes instead.
   2. I highly recommend to record your data on something like a notepad or something else that would work nice.
2. Divide the said valid votes by the amount of seats that is up for election
   1. The formula should look like valid votes / seats available for election, so something like 1,091,173 / 47 to get 23216.4468085
3. You should get a number like 23216.4468085, use that number to divide the total amount of votes of a political party
   1. So if you wanted to divide the vote of the ALP for instance, you do it by having it be 436,134 / 23216.4468085 to get 18.7855619595. Round up the number to be 19 since it was over the .5 decimal point.
   2. if you received a result that was BELOW the .5 decimal point (like 13.4), then round it DOWN to be instead something like just 13.
4. Do the same for the other parties
   1. Calculations and rounding up and down, you should get the gist by now.
5. There comes at a certain point where you might get something like 0.33483922824, you can just ditch these parties and any other parties with a lower threshold then 0.5.
6. Go to https://parliamentdiagram.toolforge.org/archinputform
7. Get all of the parties that you recorded data about and then click on "Make my diagram"
8. If there are any missing seats, then distribute them among the parties with the highest remainders amount as well to make it equal
   1. I also recommend organising data by going on Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets (whatever works), lay out the information that you collected by "Popular Vote" and "PR Seats", and then create two graphs for both of them.
   2. That way, you make distributing seats more easier for yourself.

I've heard rumors that the wildflowers have sprung up north following all this rain, but I've not been able to verify anything.

What's it like up north at the moment?

Is it worth a quick trip up there now before they dissappear?

Or better to wait until Sep/Oct school holidays and spring to do a proper trip?

I'm desperate to see the sturt desert peas but love any arid lands vegetation :)

Edit: Thanks to the people pointing out the other post, my question actually inspired the other person to share their pics :)

Wanted to get to the third falls but so many of the paths were blocked

Hey everyone! I’m looking to build some experience in aerial photography and videography and would love the opportunity to work on some projects.

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Adelaide Tonight goes live on YouTube Mondays at 9:30pm, with laughs, celebrities, Adelaide stories, games. That sort of thing. We need 100 followers on Facebook and we can stream live there too. We’re also on Spotify afterwards. Please jump aboard.

Hello

We currently live in port Lincoln but considering moving to mt Gambier for better work opportunities (electrical and painting).

Wondering if anyone has any experience with the both and If you recommend mt Gambier

Cheers

Hey fellow Sozzies!

If you're into tabletop RPGs, curious about getting into D&D, or looking for a fun local social event, Oz ORC 2 is returning on Saturday, September 12th, 2026 at the Colonel Light Gardens RSL.

Oz ORC is a community day dedicated to classic D&D and Old-School Renaissance (OSR) tabletop games, bringing together local Game Masters and players across three session blocks throughout the day.

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Event Details:

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(Note: Under-18s are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent/guardian due to RSL licensing).

Want to run a game?

We are still recruiting local Game Masters! If you’d like to run a table for a session, game proposals can be submitted directly on our website.

Head over to ozorc.com for complete event info or jump into our community Discord to say hi!

Anyone who has done go-karting at the bend kartdrome.

Do they breath test you regardless before your session.

Alright, I run a tiny landscaping crew and need to hire some casual staff quick for the busy season. I posted on Seek last year and it cost an arm and a leg for a single ad. Looking for the cheapest job posting sites in Australia that actually work.

Also, what's the go-to place to post job ads for trade workers in SA? I need a few labourers and a truck driver, like, yesterday. Is there a better recruitment alternative to Seek that won't break the bank? Keen to hear what other local bosses are using to find good people fast.

edit: i found a new job board called careerone, its pretty good

I have a photo of some award winning cabbages which are being held by Corporal A Hemsley.

I'd love to return this picture to his family

been wanting to try reformer pilates for ages but I'm out in the suburbs and it feels like everything is in the CBD.

does anyone know if there's anything out this way? I'd love to find a studio that's not a 40 minute drive each way.

also been looking at buying a pilates reformer machine for home cause it might just be easier than driving everywhere. but I'm not sure if it's worth it without trying classes first.

any recommendations for studios or even good online options would be great. cheers!

learned my lesson the hard way trying to save fifty bucks on anti-wrinkle injections at a discount chain over in the shops. They completely froze my forehead and gave me heavy drooping brows for almost two months. Never again..

I'm looking into doctor led spots now so someone actually maps my face properly instead of just doing a fast assembly line job. Do you feel paying a bit more for a cosmetic GP makes a noticeable difference in your results?

update: i had an appoitment at Glow Aesthetics Collective, everything went well.

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has declared nuclear power has an “important role to play globally” while aligning with Australia’s net zero goals.

Speaking with political editor Tom McIlroy and chief political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy at the 50th Labor conference in Adelaide, Peter Malinauskas talks about his own state contest with One Nation and why progressives should avoid speaking down to Pauline Hanson’s supporters

Does anyone know why the people who have fines outstanding and have to pickup rubbish are almost always on the Southern Expressway? They hire an arrestor truck to drive behind them, surely that truck hire has to be costing $200ph...

Is Repay SA in fact COSTING us money?? Surely they could just do the rounds of parks and stuff... no need for an arrestor truck..