r/southaustralia

paid a builder from adelaide $8k deposit for a patio extension back in february. he came out, measured up, gave me a quote, took the deposit for materials. said he'd start in 3 weeks.

that was 4 months ago. i've called him maybe 50 times. texts go nowhere. drove past his house and his ute isn't there anymore. his office phone is disconnected.

i checked and his abn is still active but the address is just a po box. i feel so stupid. he was recommended by a friend who said he did good work for them a couple years ago. but now i can't find him anywhere.

i looked up my options online and found Sterling Legal who deal with construction disputes. but i don't even know if they'd take a case this small. $8k is a lot to me but probably nothing to a lawyer.

has anyone in SA actually recovered money from a builder who just disappears. is it worth going to sascat or should i just take the loss. feeling pretty cooked.

See also: The study as it was published in the journal Archaeology in Oceania

Exam is very soon and I'm almost certainly going to fail it. Revision checklist hit me like a truck and I didn't understand this year's Chemistry well anyways (only reason I took it was because the other options were just as uninteresting and I've been good at Chemistry before). I know I don't have a future in Chemistry as it's very confusing and complex. So, yea title.

SA government announced a new Data Centre strategy on 26 June 2026 but I can’t find it anywhere online. Lots of reporting/summaries on the strategy but no strategy document itself.

Does anyone have a link to it?

Hey guys, I’m turning 32 this year and I've officially hit the point where I cannot stand my current industry anymore. The burnout is real and I can't imagine doing this for another twenty or thirty years.

The problem is the idea of starting from the bottom again in Adelaide is terrifying, especially with the current cost of living and how brutal the rental market has gotten here lately. I’ve been browsing some sites to see what sectors are actually hiring locally, and I've noticed a lot of talk around the Fee-Free TAFE SA courses for priority industries, or entry-level traineeships that don't require an entirely new four-year uni degree. The issue is I have no idea how to actually frame my transferable skills to get my foot in the door.

Has anyone here pulled off a major career pivot in their 30s around SA? Did you end up doing a quick retrain through TAFE, or did you manage to just network your way into a new field or a state government role? Would love some real-world advice on how you handled the initial pay cut.