Shari Hams
Shari Hams is a reporter with ABC News South Australia filing news for TV, online and radio.
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perspective:TikTok blogger highlights 'challenges' faced by people with a disability when travelling
By Shari Hams
Shane Hryhorec uses a blog to capture his travel experiences as a wheelchair user to help others with disability explore the world.
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'At least the coffee shop's open': Australians' 'frustrating' Friday amid IT outage
By Phoebe Pin, Shari Hams, Gemma Ferguson, Bridget Murphy, and Kirra Grimes
As industry experts continue to grapple with how a suspected defect in a computer update brought the world to a halt, Australians recount how the incident unfolded.
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'Extremely confronting scene': Woman injured, man dead after sword incident
By Shari Hams and Olivia Mason
Police have launched a Commissioner's Inquiry after a man wielding a sword threatened a woman inside her Mawson Lakes unit. Police subdued the man using a taser, and he was taken to hospital where he later died.
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SkyCity Adelaide agrees to pay $67 million fine, but court will decide if penalty is appropriate
By Shari Hams
The operator of the Adelaide Casino and the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre agrees that $67 million is an appropriate penalty for SkyCity Adelaide's misconduct.
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Ribbon-cutting ceremony for accessible toilet 'patronising', disability advocate says
By Shari Hams
Callum Gossland, who lives with Functional Neurological Disorder and uses a wheelchair, says while additional investment in accessible bathrooms was "positive", holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of a new toilet was "sensationalising supporting people that have special needs".
'Truly a coming-home' for Kaurna artefacts returned from German museum after 180 years
By Shari Hams
Almost 200 years after Indigenous artefacts were gifted to Lutheran missionaries, the items have been ceremonially handed back to the Kaurna people.
'Sammy is the light of our lives': Footballer in hospital after incident at Port Lincoln hotel
By Shari Hams
West Adelaide footballer Sam May, 24, remains at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after an incident at Port Lincoln at the weekend. SA Police said emergency services were called to the Pier Hotel on Sunday morning after reports a man had fallen through the roof.
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Calls for supplement to treat rare metabolic disorder to be relisted on PBS
By Shari Hams
An Adelaide mother says a vital supplement that assists her sons with a rare metabolic disorder has been removed from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
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Leo and Darcy live with a rare condition. Now, the supplement they need has been delisted by the PBS
By Shari Hams
Leo and Darcy live with a rare, life-long metabolic disorder and need to take a supplement that helps their quality of life. But that supplement has now been removed from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, prompting calls on the supplier and federal government.
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A teacher helped Jack get an autism diagnosis. Now, he's studying to become a teacher to help others
By Daniel Keane and Shari Hams
Jack Herzich understands the importance of an autism diagnosis, because it's something he could easily have missed out on. He's welcomed a pilot program for free assessments in Adelaide's northern suburbs starting this year.
SA Health postpones some surgeries due to 'overwhelmed hospital system'
By Shari Hams
The decision to postpone some non-urgent surgeries is due to an "overwhelmed hospital system".
Three people found dead after fishing boat capsizes near Port Lincoln
By Shari Hams
The death toll from a fishing boat that capsized in waters off South Australia's Eyre Peninsula has risen to three, after searchers discovered the bodies of the two remaining crew.
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Patients treated in ED corridors at Adelaide hospital operating over capacity, union says
By Shari Hams
One of Adelaide's major public hospitals has been operating under an internal emergency code for nearly two weeks, prompting doctors to hold an emergency meeting yesterday.
Fertility services are paying social media influencers to promote egg freezing — but is that legal?
By Shari Hams and Eric Tlozek
Testimonial promotion of regulated health services is illegal under Australia's advertising laws, but paid partnerships with influencers about egg freezing continue to appear on social media feeds, with the health regulator saying it is a "complex" legal area.
Keith Yandle pleads not guilty to murder but admits killing victim found in underground bunker
By Shari Hams
A man charged over the death of Steven Murphy, whose remains were found in an underground bunker at a property in Adelaide's north, has pleaded not guilty to murder but has admitted to killing the victim.
SA government accepts inquest findings into five-year-old student who choked at school
By Shari Hams
More than 2,500 South Australian public school staff will get first aid training in response to a coronial inquest into the choking death of five-year-old student Lucas Latouche Mazzei in March 2017.
Hospital staff didn't think man's condition was 'bad enough to be admitted', GP tells inquest
By Olivia Mason and Shari Hams
An inquest hears evidence from a general practitioner who had treated a man who later died after seeking help from an Adelaide emergency department multiple times.
Man pleads guilty to sexual assault of girl on southern Adelaide train line
By Shari Hams
Dylan Lloyd pleads guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to unlawful sexual intercourse and the indecent assault of a girl on the Seaford train line.
Salt Creek attacker attempts to prevent destruction of vehicle used in the offending
By Shari Hams
A man convicted over a brutal assault on two young backpackers at Salt Creek, in South Australia's Coorong region, is fighting to prevent his vehicle from being destroyed.
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Teenagers accused of stabbing 12yo boy in leg denied bail
By Shari Hams
Two children remain in custody charged over the alleged stabbing of a boy in Adelaide's northern suburbs.
Father who stabbed daughter in car park told family 'she deserved it', court hears
By Shari Hams
An Adelaide court has heard that a father who stabbed his daughter in an open car park because she was dating a man of a different faith told his family "she deserved it", and the comment was recorded by police body worn camera.
Accused child sex offender faces court on separate indecent assault charge
By Shari Hams
Dylan Lloyd faces the Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with indecently assaulting a woman in Adelaide’s south in July, after being re-arrested earlier on Wednesday.
Drowning inquest recommends SA mandate safety equipment on commercial snorkelling tours
By Shari Hams
A coronial inquest into the drowning death of Ardebby Oh Chua recommends that businesses conducting snorkelling activities should carry an emergency oxygen unit.
Convicted child sex offender denied home detention bail after alleged sexual assault on Adelaide train
By Shari Hams
Dylan Lloyd, 21, who is accused of sexually assaulting a child on a train in Adelaide's south, is denied home detention bail for the protection of the alleged victim, a court hears.
Italian tourist faces court over campervan crash that claimed lives of elderly couple and daughter
By Shari Hams
The 28-year-old is accused of causing a horrific road crash in South Australia's Mid North in October that claimed the lives of three people, including one who died in hospital a week after the collision.