I have a fantasy that Juan Peron takes over South Australia, gets rid of the Liberal and Labor parties and turns the Advertiser in to a newspaper. I picture him and Evita on the Town Hall balcony in King William Street, addressing the crowd. It’s a lovefest. Juan’s uniform, tailored by an old SS off...

South Australian’s only daily and weekend newspapers are in dire straits as the downward trend in circulation and advertising revenue cannot be stopped. Like most large metropolitan newspapers, The Advertiser has been squeezed by high news gathering costs, decreasing ad revenue (the classifieds have...