It's showtime: Thousands of people are expected to flock to the Mount Gambier Spring Show this Friday and Saturday. Show Society president Kerry Hill says thousands of tickets have already been sold online for the community event. Attractions include the popular log chop championships, along with the sideshow alley, SES demonstrations, circus workshops and animal pavilions.
Picture: Mount Gambier Show Society president Kerry Hill. Credit: ABC South East SA/Eugene Boisvert
Wild winds batter region: Strong winds have brought down trees and damaged property across the South East, after severe storms lashed the region on Wednesday. Thousands of properties across the Limestone Coast, including at Robe and Kingston, were also without power for large parts of the day. Wind speeds surpassed 80kph in many towns, with the Bureau of Meteorology recording a 93kph gust in Mount Gambier.
Indigenous artefact sale blocked: South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher has refused permission for a retired teacher to sell Indigenous artefacts he collected
in the 1960s and 1970s while working on the Eyre Peninsula and in the South East. Mr Maher says the sale or removal of the objects from South Australia would have caused deep distress to traditional owners and the wider Aboriginal community. Artefacts owner Geoff Pope says he has given the stone tools he collected to a traditional owner from the state's far west. But he says he will not be handing over his axes, digging sticks, boomerangs, shields, spears or coolamons.
Obelisk replica debate looms: Community consultation will get underway in Robe to seek views on three options to mark the site above the town's jetty for the obelisk replica. The choices include building the replica before the obelisk is lost, marking the site with a plaque, or creating a frame the replica will one day be built in. The | 
