Patrick Martin
Patrick Martin is an award-winning reporter and digital producer in the ABC's Asia Pacific Newsroom. He has previously been based in Adelaide and at Port Pirie reporting across the South Australian outback. Get in touch on X: @pjournomartin
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After being closed for more than a month, New Caledonia's international airport reopens
La Tontouta international airport will reopen to commercial flights from today and an overnight curfew in the territory will be reduced as unrest continues to ease.
Fiji works to recover patrol boat that ran aground after being gifted by Australia
Australia has sent specialised recovery equipment to Fiji to help with the recovery of RFNS Puamau, with Fijian authorities working to prevent any potential oil spill from the accident.
'Too many': Ninth person dies in New Caledonia riots as French president suspends controversial voting reform
by Patrick Martin with wires
Emmanuel Macron's decision to hold a snap election in France has further delayed the implementation of the controversial changes, which sparked five weeks of violent riots.
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British PM Rishi Sunak calls snap general election for July 4
By Riley Stuart and Patrick Martin in London
Britain's Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak calls a surprise general election, triggering a six-week campaign with his government trailing the opposition Labour Party in the polls.
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'Thank God!' Australians relieved as first evacuation flights land after mission to riot-stricken New Caledonia
by Jay Bowman, foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic and Patrick Martin with wires
More than 100 Australians and other tourists stranded for up to a week in the violence in New Caledonia have been repatriated.
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Hamas accepts ceasefire proposal in Gaza war, Israel pushes on with attack on Rafah
By Middle East correspondent Allyson Horn in Jerusalem, and Riley Stuart and Patrick Martin in London
Hamas says it has accepted a ceasefire proposal from Egypt and Qatar, but Israel says the deal the group has agreed to is "far from" its "necessary requirements".
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'Thousands' of dead wombats, but these are the lucky ones to survive River Murray flood
Crews take to the swollen River Murray in search of wombats in need most days, but only those in the most dire of circumstances can be taken into care.
Pete loves the river, but this year 'it's taken everything we love'
By Daniel Keane and Patrick Martin
At the small Murraylands community of Paisley, there are stretches of water that almost resemble a ship graveyard. But the semi-submerged structures sticking out of the depths are not ships — they're shacks.
Snake catchers called in as crews battle Murray floodwaters with giant sandbags
By Daniel Keane, Stacey Pestrin, and Patrick Martin
An aerial sand-bagging operation is underway to protect the supply of drinking water to almost 300 properties in South Australia, but crews working to bolster the local levee also have had a couple of unexpected challenges.
Those who flout River Murray activity restrictions could face $1,000 fine, water peak flows downstream
By Patrick Martin and Stacey Pestrin
The South Australian government says it is too soon to forecast when restrictions will be eased on water activities near flooded River Murray communities.
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Large funding package for River Murray flooding as more levee breaches hit Murraylands
Levees protecting dairy farms and other agricultural properties in South Australia's Murraylands have been breached, as the Premier announces what he says is the state's largest natural disaster support package.
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'A regrettable decision': SA government closes River Murray to ensure public safety
The River Murray has been closed to all non-essential activity from the South Australian border to Wellington, with the state government citing ongoing safety concerns about rising floodwaters.
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Adelaide 500 race cost nearly $35 million, SA government reveals
The SA government's mid-year budget review reveals nearly $14 million more was needed to stage this year's Adelaide 500 Supercars race than initially thought.
North-South Corridor to now cost $15.4 billion and 524 homes and properties
By Patrick Martin and Rory McClaren
The cost of South Australia's biggest infrastructure project has blown out by billions of dollars, with more properties to be acquired to make it happen.
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SA children locked up in adult cells thousands of times, report finds
A new report found that kids were held at least 2,030 times in SA police cells in the 2020-21 financial year.
Former APY Lands mental health care staff sacked ahead of release of new model of care
Exclusive by Patrick Martin
Two long-serving remote mental health staff are sacked by South Australian health bureaucrats, with a union saying the workers have been treated appallingly and despicably by management.
Inquiry hears two long-serving APY Lands mental health workers investigated
A senior SA Health bureaucrat tells a parliamentary committee two long-serving mental health workers on the APY Lands who were removed last year have been investigated, but won't reveal why.
Stalking, blackmail, assault allegations not investigated in SA's biggest health network
The state's anti-corruption watchdog finds South Australia's biggest health network has significant issues in the way it handles complaints and investigations.
Reinforcements arrive to protect SA communities facing inundation
ABC News: Patrick Martin
A second flood peak higher than the first will reach SA's Riverland earlier than anticipated, with modelling predicting two flood peaks will move through the region in December. Patrick Martin reports
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SA's ambulance service misses own target for reaching most critically ill patients
By Patrick Martin and Stacey Pestrin
SA's ambulance service has missed its own target for responding to patients in life-threatening conditions for the first time.
South Australian magistrate removed from office over sexual harassment
By Eugene Boisvert and Patrick Martin
A report by the judicial conduct panel finds Simon Milazzo engaged in inappropriate conduct with sexual connotations relating to four women over a number of years.
'Scandalous abuse of power': MP accuses anti-corruption body of corruption
By Patrick Martin and Rory McClaren
Upper House SA Best MP Frank Pangallo uses parliamentary privilege to accuse South Australia's Independent Commission Against Corruption of abuse of power and corruption itself, in its handling of several high-profile investigations.
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First Nations Voice to SA parliament unveiled — so how will it work?
The proposed bill to enshrine South Australia's new First Nations Voice to parliament into law reveals how the body would be elected, what powers it would have and how it would operate.
'The kids need help': Elders plead for mental health staff to return to remote Aboriginal communities
Exclusive by Patrick Martin
Some of Australia's most vulnerable children will not have access to in-community mental health support staff, with the South Australian government set to install a fly-in-fly-out model, against the wishes of elders and the advice of experts.
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'Start getting ready': SA prepares for Murray River flows not seen in nearly 50 years
Flows not seen since 1975 are set to reach South Australia's Riverland, with the state government moving to ensure levees will protect towns in the event of more rainfall.
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