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It's the start of a consultation period at this point so we're hoping to influence these decisions quite frankly."\n\nStaff across the country are set to face off for various roles including Radio National which will halve the number of producers as 18 people compete for nine positions.\n\nWorkers involved in ABC classic will be reduced from three to one, and it has also been revealed that all of the Classic FM library staff will be going.\n\nBacklash across the state has continued today following the confirmation yesterday that 37 jobs in South Australia would be lost.\n\nThe Coalition Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey said the ABC should be able to handle budget reductions "in its stride," and criticised Mr Scott for cutting staff in regional areas.\n\nThe Grey electorate includes Port Augusta, which will no longer have an ABC journalist based there following yesterday's announcement.\n\n"Mark Scott in his wisdom has decided to inflict as much pain on the Coalition as he can by reaching into our regional heartlands," he said.\n\nMr Ramsey also described Mr Abbott's commitment not to cut the ABC and SBS was "unfortunate."\n\n"Some of the things that were said, perhaps we might wish they weren't said," he said.\n\nABC cutbacks in South Australia have been condemned by politicians of all sides, former staff members, sporting bodies as well as the local mayor whose community is hardest hit.\n\nThe cuts include sacking 37 staff and axing the local 7.30 current affairs show, the local TV production unit and the radio studio in Port Augusta.\n\nFormer ABC SA state director Sandra Winter-Dewhurst said there was an agenda within ABC news and current affairs to centralise programs in Sydney that lead to the cancellation of local 7.30.\n\n"I believe this is a smokescreen, they're using the budget cuts as an excuse to nationalise 7.30," she said.\n\nShe also said that there wasn't an economic argument to back up the decision to abandon local TV production.\n\n"Management has not tackled the real issues of efficiencies and work practices, they've looked for the low hanging fruit rather than the tough stuff that they need to tackle."\n\nYesterday morning ABC managing director Mark Scott informed workers around the country by videolink of changes to the broadcaster made in response to a 5 per cent cut in its budget by the federal government.\n\nMore than 400 jobs are to be lost around the country in coming years, with Adelaide being the third hardest centre hit after Sydney and Melbourne.\n\n"We regard the changes as vital to securing the long-term health of the organisation but I acknowledge that is no comfort to those who will lose their positions," Mr Scott said in a statement.\n\nThe 37 job losses in Adelaide are part of the first round of approximately 300 nationwide. The majority of Adelaide losses were from the local TV production unit.\n\nAdelaide had been the last ABC office outside Sydney and Melbourne to retain internal TV production capacity. \n\nPort Augusta mayor Sam Johnson disputed claims by ABC managing director Mark Scott there would be no impact in the city.\n\n"How do you take someone physically out of a community and say that there's going to be no effect locally?," he said.\n\nThe ABC will finalise initial redundancies with staff in the next two weeks but job losses are also to follow in coming years as the organisation aims to streamline its administration and cut back on local sport production.\n\nCoverage of basketball's WNBL and soccer's W-League are also to be abandoned next year.\n\nLabor Premier Jay Weatherill described the news as "devastating."\n\n"We are also deeply disappointed at the loss of talents and skills in our TV production unit and 7:30 SA - this represents a serious blow to our capacity to produce high quality South Australian content - to tell our story on the national stage," he said.\n\nFederal Coalition Minister Christopher Pyne said he was "disgusted" with the decision to scrap local TV production.\n\nMr Pyne started an online petition last week to save Adelaide's TV-making unit from cutbacks.\n\nBut in the Senate South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon questioned Mr Pyne's sincerity in rallying support for local ABC jobs given it was Mr Pyne's Coalition government that reduced the ABC budget.\n\n"I suggest Minister Pyne directs his energies to getting his cabinet colleagues to support him on this, not getting a petition that is a bit of a political stunt, and I know a thing or two about stunts, Mr Acting Deputy President - that is a stunt!"\n\nSenator Xenophon is seeking to table a Bill in federal Parliament this week that would guarantee content "by and for" the regions and small-states.\n\n"The ABC is arguably already breaching the Charter with its determined policy of centralisation in Sydney," he said.\n\nMs Temple said job cuts would be made through forced redundancies.\n\n"The people that are losing their jobs in TV production, some of our members have been working for the ABC for 24, 25 years - that's a massive amount of experience walking out the door," she said.\n\n"It means that there are less opportunities for younger people that are looking to get into the industry to be able to do that in this state."\n\nJessica Knight, President of Friends of the ABC, said she was devastated that South Australia was losing a local voice.\n\n"We fought so hard to try and stop this from happening or at least reduce some of the cutbacks in some way."\n\nMark Scott's Full Email to Staff\n\n"Dear Colleagues,\n\nI have just completed a presentation to staff in ABC offices around the country, outlining a range of measures we propose to implement over the next few years. It sits alongside a statement released today by the ABC Board.\n\nIn charting this new course, my thoughts go out firstly to those who face losing their jobs. We regard the changes as vital to securing the long-term health of the organisation but I acknowledge that is no comfort to those who may lose their positions.\n\nMy thanks go to everyone at the ABC for the patience, discipline and application they have displayed over a testing period. Like any responsible organisation, we have used our time constructively - taking heed of the departmental study and other inputs - to assess our activities and processes and to recalibrate on programming.\n\nWe have had to wait for clarity on funding to complete the task.\n\nThe proposals announced today form an integrated package: they are a whole-of-ABC response to our funding issues and our audience strategy. They recognise that programming cannot stay frozen and that our content divisions must regularly update their strategies and schedules; that audience dynamics drive reinvestment decisions and that repositioning necessitates tough decision-making and execution.\n\nChange is never easy for an institution that has so many stakeholders with a passionate interest in its work. What I can say with confidence is that the resilience of the ABC and the professionalism of the staff will help build a stronger organisation, better-equipped to meet the audience challenges of the present and the future.\n\nABC Funding\n\nThe Government has confirmed that, in addition to the May 2014 budget cut of $120 million, the ABC budget will be cut from July 2015 by a further $207 million over four years. The schedule of cuts outlined by the Government acknowledges that extracting efficiencies incurs a big upfront liability for the ABC in the form of redundancies and early transitional costs.\n\nWe must fund these costs from our current funding allocation and asset base. We face immediate work to meet the 2016-17 ask of more than $60 million.\n\nThis target requires concerted, disciplined action to meet our twin challenges. In a changing media landscape, we must also closely scrutinise our programming, shifting investment to strengthen our connection to audiences.\n\nEfficiency Savings\n\nDelivering efficiencies is not a new concept for the ABC. We have applied ourselves diligently to the task over the years.\n\nWe have used our efficiency savings to finance key initiatives like ABC News24 and iview. In considering efficiencies, it is important to appreciate that:\n\n* New technology changes what we can do and how\n\n* It is a fast-changing media market place; and\n\n* We need to ensure that our investments deliver value for money.\n\nOur aim in delivering the savings required by the Federal Government is to focus primarily on overheads and back-office functions. The ABC must also focus on where and how it can best add value in its processes and content creation.\n\nWe believe there are compelling business reasons to:\n\n* Close our Adelaide television production studio and wind down remaining television production in smaller states. To demonstrate accountability, the ABC will deliver detailed annual reports on its local production, including dollars invested and programs made.\n\n* Rationalise our television outside broadcast vans and scale back our sports involvement. ABC Television will be providing more detail on its revised sports strategy.\n\n* Shut five of our very small regional radio posts in Wagin, Morwell, Gladstone, Port Augusta and Nowra. But we need to be responsible in how we allocate resources and maintaining these sites is not best practice.\n\nToday, we are proposing a range of efficiency measures that will transform the operational base of the ABC and provide the bulk of the savings that the Federal Government has imposed. They are designed to deliver savings with minimal adverse cost impact - scooping up the benefits of collaboration, harnessing technology, modernising the business and better resource allocation.\n\nThe proposals address:\n\n* Our procurement. We will systematically review key contracts to extract efficiencies and explore joint purchasing arrangements with our colleagues at SBS.\n\n* Our property holdings. As a first step we will plan for the sale of Lanceley Place in Sydney as well as closing five of our smallest regional radio stations that operate as virtual outposts.\n\n* Our systems and processes. We will streamline and automate our rostering, performance and other HR paper-based systems, easing bureaucratic demands on staff.\n\n* Key tasks like our switchboard and mail rooms. We will centralise the former and reorganise the latter to yield savings;\n\n* Our audience and marketing strategies. The Audience and Marketing Division, which was centralised in March, will find efficiencies by aligning more closely with priority content and brand initiatives.\n\nWe also want to strip back our management layers. In mid-2015, we propose dismantling the State and Territory Director structure and looking at new ways of handling local administrative and stakeholder responsibilities.\n\nAudience at the centre\n\nCompetition in the media space is intensifying and audiences are asserting their power. We must be the home of Australian stories and conversations across all platforms.\n\nStructural change can help us in this regard, ensuring we better harness our skills, people and strategies for the benefit of current and future audiences.\n\nWe propose replacing ABC Innovation with a new digital division, ABC Digital Network, with the aim of prioritising our online and mobile expenditure. It would ensure we are better placed to identify audience trends and respond to them with new and enhanced products and services, developed with a whole-of-ABC mindset and discipline.\n\nABC Digital Network is the key to improving the skills of our digital specialists and unlocking a better audience experience: it means better search, single sign-on, better recommendations, localisation, segmentation, profiling and navigation. These areas are vital to keeping our audiences connected and our services relevant.\n\nWe are also planning a new Regional Division, recognising that, with new digital technologies and better organisation, we can be smarter and more focused in our approach to rural and regional audiences. The new division would bring together regional radio and news staff and look afresh at how we best deploy our knowledge, skills and technology.\n\nWe will advertise internally for a new director and the position will be located outside Sydney and Melbourne. We will maintain our level of content investment while acknowledging that in this new environment, not everything should or will remain as it has been.\n\nAs part of our structural change, we propose transferring responsibility for News Radio from ABC Radio to ABC News. His long leadership experience across many of the Radio networks makes him perfectly qualified for the job.\n\nContent reinvestment\n\nThe budget cuts represent a real opportunity cost for the ABC. With competition intensifying and audiences growing more demanding and fickle, we cannot afford to abandon our efforts to invest in the content and services our listeners, viewers and readers want.\n\nWe lag behind other media in terms of our digital reach and penetration. We need to make up ground quickly in terms of the money we devote to reinvestment.\n\nBroadcasting is not and never has been a static industry. Programs are changed, cancelled and replaced.\n\nStaff are reassigned, resources reallocated. This is part of the normal cycle of business.\n\nRecently, ABC TV announced a raft of exciting new projects for 2015, building on their quality output across three channels. Online, the ABC will continue to show flair, creativity and innovation.\n\nBut, in responding to the audience challenge, the divisions have identified programming savings that they can reinvest in new content priorities. We have set up an investment fund that will progressively ramp up to $20 million over the next few years.\n\nI need to stress this: there will be programming changes, but money saved will be reinvested back into programming.\n\nProgramming savings\n\nIn ABC TV, as I flagged earlier, we propose ceasing television production in the smaller states and winding back our TV sport production.\n\nABC News has proposed launching a new, national end-of-week edition of 7.30, replacing the state editions, and delivering more state coverage throughout the week across all platforms. Lateline will shift to a new more time-friendly fixed slot on ABC News24 (while also airing on ABC TV in 2015) where it can build the audience it deserves.\n\nWe propose readjusting the shape of our foreign bureaux but will continue to recognise the importance of our investment in foreign coverage at time of 24/7 news demand and the challenges posed by convergence. ABC News will outline the more specific proposed changes.\n\nABC Radio plans to cut back on the number of concerts recorded on Classic FM. There would be programming changes and staff cuts in Radio National and Local Radio.\n\nThe changes to Radio National aim to reshape the structure and flow of programming across the middle of the day and to rethink our delivery of documentary content. ABC Radio will provide a more detailed briefing to staff on these and other proposed changes.\n\nThe need for digital reinvestment does not preclude the search for audience or workplace efficiencies in that area. We are rationalising our websites, with the goal of closing down more than 100 and consolidating content into websites that generate the most traffic, like ABC News, to present our stories to wider audiences.\n\nThe reinvestment fund priorities\n\nThe creation of ABC Digital Network will ensure we mobilise our resources to deliver a better audience experience in online and mobile - factors that are vital to success in this competitive market.\n\nThat is the first of our reinvestment priorities with other initiatives to be rolled out as savings become available. Our focus will be on priority areas of News, children's, triple j and iview and will include:\n\n* The upgrading of our innovative catch-up TV service. iview has become an important platform for viewers of every age. We will enrich the audience experience with fast-feature development, improved personalisation, 24-hour support, capacity for audience recommendations and the development of stand-alone content.\n\n* Exploring the potential for new video streaming and transaction-based services.\n\n* New investment in News Digital, including extending our capacity for breaking and rolling news coverage to online and mobile audiences and building digital newsgathering skills within our metropolitan newsrooms and our current affairs and international teams.\n\n* The extension of radio streaming to regional areas and the development of the personalised radio player that enables listeners to draw in content from across the ABC's array of services and to access it in one location.\n\nThe ABC expects that new specialist jobs, funded by our programming changes, will be created across the ABC as we roll out these new digital initiatives.\n\nNext stage\n\nThe ABC has endeavoured to speak to every member of staff directly affected by these proposals and we will embark on a process of consultation with staff and unions about the proposed changes.\n\nSome initiatives are still in the planning stage - they will be rolled out as we develop a full understanding of the savings potential and risks. However, we expect the staff cuts will be significant.\n\nThey are likely to exceed 400 over the next few years - close to 10 per cent of our ongoing staff numbers as we consult, bed down the initiatives and seek to realise the savings.\n\nThese are challenging times, but our responsibility is to recognise the internal and external realities and confront them. But we also need to realise there is an opportunity cost of the Government taking back the money that we normally use to meet our reinvestment priorities.\n\nOur efficiency drive requires the co-operation, involvement and sacrifice of every division. The message I will convey, both internally and externally, over the next few weeks is that the ABC cannot stand still and run the risk of becoming less relevant and compelling to this and future generations.\n\nWhat we've proposed today is in the best interests of the ABC and its many stakeholders. 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"We have confidentiality agreements so I am not able to discuss anything in terms of the Oval review.\n\n"But we are moving heaven and earth to get a deal done and find a model that works for everyone."\n\n,""byline":"Michelangelo Rucci ,""bylineNames":[],"bylineTitles":[],"categories":["/display/adelaidenow.com.au/Sport news and galleries/AFL/Local Footy SA/SANFL/,""/display/adelaidenow.com.au/Sport news and galleries/AFL/AFL Teams/Port Adelaide/,""/display/adelaidenow.com.au/Sport news and galleries/AFL/AFL Teams/Adelaide Crows/,""/display/adelaidenow.com.au/Sport news and galleries/All Sports/,""/display/adelaidenow.com.au/Sport news and galleries/AFL/Local Footy SA/,""/display/adelaidenow.com.au/Sport news and galleries/,""/section/adelaidenow.com.au/sport/,""/section/adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/"],"commentsAllowed":true,"commentsShown":true,"commentsTotal":0,"contentType":"NEWS_STORY,""creditedSource":"adelaidenow.com.au,""dateLive":"2014-11-24T09:30:00.000Z,""dateUpdated":"2014-11-24T06:12:52.000Z,""description":"ADELAIDE and Port Adelaide's pact to score a united win in the Adelaide Oval stadium review is to be tested by the SANFL yesterday removing the AFL's trump card in the long-running talks.,""domainLinks":[{"link":"http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/sanfl-removes-afl-trump-card-in-stadium-review-at-adelaide-oval/story-fnii0294-1227133144357?sv=70699182747cedb2df76436c1294ba78,""name":"adelaidenow.com.au"}],"domains":["adelaidenow.com.au"],"id":"d1ffba117e62b9aff6e67654f08e665c,""keywords":["CEO Jake Parkinson,""confidentiality agreements,""Port Adelaide Power,""national body,""Australian Football League,""Oval deal,""Jake Parkinson,""Port Adelaide,""South Australia,""Australia"],"kicker":"Oval deal,""link":"http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/sanfl-removes-afl-trump-card-in-stadium-review-at-adelaide-oval/story-fnii0294-1227133144357?sv=70699182747cedb2df76436c1294ba78,""locationGeoPoints":[],"origin":"FATWIRE,""originId":"1227133144357,""originalAssetId":"1227133144357,""originalSource":"The Advertiser,""paidStatus":"NON_PREMIUM,""primaryCategory":"/display/adelaidenow.com.au/Sport news and galleries/AFL/Local Footy SA/SANFL/,""referenceType":"PRIMARY,""references":[{"contentType":"IMAGE,""id":"f040015f12f206d6e50ff92ac8d1d988,""origin":"FATWIRE,""originId":"1227133144331,""referenceType":"PRIMARY"}],"related":[],"standFirst":"ADELAIDE and Port Adelaide's pact to score a united win in the Adelaide Oval stadium review is to be tested by the SANFL yesterday removing the AFL's trump card in the long-running talks.,""status":"ACTIVE,""subtitle":"SANFL removes AFL trump card in stadium review at Adelaide Oval,""thumbnailImage":{"authors":["Matt Turner"],"categories":[],"contentType":"IMAGE,""description":"SANFL sends $10m to AFL to clear debt,""domainLinks":[],"domains":[],"format":"jpg,""height":75,"imageName":"8e2756ba-738f-11e4-9e51-02293300d0bf - Thumbnail (100x75) ,""imageType":"THUMBNAIL,""keywords":["SANFL,""ceo,""ANNOUNCEMENT"],"link":"http://api.news.com.au/content/1.0/couriermail/images/1227133332640?format=jpg,""locationGeoPoints":[],"origin":"FATWIRE,""originId":"1227133332640,""originalSource":"News Corp Australia,""paidStatus":"NON_PREMIUM,""related":[],"sourceImageId":"1227133332614,""subtitle":"8e2756ba-738f-11e4-9e51-02293300d0bf,""title":"SANFL ceo ANNOUNCEMENT,""width":100},"title":"SANFL sends $10m to AFL to clear debt,""markDate":false,"relatedMap":{},"gallery":[],"sectionLink":"/sport/afl,""sectionName":"Afl"},{"authorProfileIds":[],"authors":[],"body":"Ryan Maudlen, 33, who suffers from Crohn's disease, which causes bowel inflammation, was struck down last week while travelling through Mexico with his girlfriend, Katharina Reigl.\n\nMr Maudlen, who has travelled extensively since leaving Adelaide in 2007, was forced to undergo emergency surgery, in which more than 60cm of his bowel was removed.\n\nHe is today in a medically induced coma in Galenia Hospital, in Cancun, on the country's far-east coast, after being struck down with blood poisoning when his bowel and intestines perforated.\n\nHe also suffered kidney and liver failure as well as heart problems, and remains in intensive care in the hospital, located more than 1600km from the country's capital Mexico City.\n\nHis parents, Robert, 64, and Deb, 60, now face medical bills of up to $200,000 for his around-the-clock care and have been forced to remortgage their Modbury Heights house.\n\nHis mother, a legal secretary, is today flying to Mexico to be by her son's bedside.\n\nMr Maudlen, a baker, is today visiting his bank to secure a new mortgage. He said the family was "devastated."\n\n"We hope for a full recovery," he said. "He is a fighter so he is not going to give up easily."\n\nThe family has already been hit with bills of up to $US27,000 ($AUD31,000) every two days from Mexican hospital officials and fear his medical help will stop if they cannot pay.\n\nThe cost is for just medication and does not include the doctor or anaesthesiologist bills.\n\nThey also face a bill of $160,000 to medevac him back to Australia, where he has private health insurance and a specialist doctor ready to help. He is too unwell to currently make that trip.\n\nIt remains unclear if he had travel insurance for this particular leg of his trip, which began in July, and involved driving from Alaska to Argentina.\n\nHis family told The Advertiser that he would usually travel with cover but they were unsure if he had been able to secure insurance for this particular part of the trip.\n\nMany companies refuse to cover people with pre-existing conditions in areas such as Central and South America, which have expensive and high-risk hospital systems.\n\nHis family and friends have launched a public appeal to help raise money for his treatment and have taken to social media to raise awareness of his plight.\n\nAlmost $32,000 has already been raised.\n\nHis London-based sister Rachel, 38, has been co-ordinating the family from Britain while another sister Kylie, 35, remains in Brisbane.\n\nDaniel Milky, who operates the popular Argo cafe on the Parade, Norwood, urged people to help his friend, an avid Adelaide Crows supporter.\n\n"He has always been a fun and outgoing person and has touched thousands of people with his generosity and adventurous personality," he said.\n\nMr Maudlen, formerly of Modbury Heights, worked in London as a business systems analyst before travelling for a year in 2011, when he met his Austrian-born girlfriend, aged in her late 20s. She remains by his bedside.\n\nThe pair, now based in Vancouver, Canada, was travelling through Mexico when he was struck down last Monday in Playa del Carmen, about an hour south of Cancun.\n\nHe was transferred to the coastal resort-town after his condition worsened.\n\nMr Maudlen has suffered from the disease since he was 14 - forcing him to be hospitalised at least five times - but his family said he had enjoyed remarkable health in recent years.\n\nThey said last week's episode was the worst he had suffered.\n\nFigures show 75,000 Australian have been diagnosed with the disease.\n\nThe family have received consular assistance from the Department of Foreign Affairs but it is understood the Federal Government has said it cannot offer financial help.\n\n* To donate please visit this website: http://www.gofundme.com/hjx040\n\n,""byline":"ANDREW HOUGH CITY EDITOR ,""bylineNames":[],"bylineTitles":[],"categories":["/display/adelaidenow.com.au/AdelaideNow/AN SA News and Photos/,""/display/adelaidenow.com.au/AdelaideNow/Best from Around/,""/display/adelaidenow.com.au/AdelaideNow/AN Top News/,""/section/adelaidenow.com.au/news/,""/section/adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/"],"commentsAllowed":true,"commentsShown":true,"commentsTotal":0,"contentType":"NEWS_STORY,""creditedSource":"adelaidenow.com.au,""dateLive":"2014-11-24T01:35:00.000Z,""dateUpdated":"2014-11-24T09:15:09.000Z,""description":"THE family of a former Adelaide man fighting for his life in Mexico face financial ruin after being forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars for his 24-hour care.,""domainLinks":[{"link":"http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/ryan-maudlen-former-adelaide-mans-family-face-financial-ruin-after-he-suffered-crohns-disease-episode-while-travelling-in-mexico/story-fni6uo1m-1227133024660?sv=9468bbf7fac0aee8ce43fcd9670bd44a,""name":"adelaidenow.com.au"}],"domains":["adelaidenow.com.au"],"id":"5cb14604de31403b2bc955f62e5bcf06,""keywords":["Ryan Maudlen,""Crohn's disease,""hospital,""fundraising,""Mexico"],"kicker":"Exclusive,""link":"http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/ryan-maudlen-former-adelaide-mans-family-face-financial-ruin-after-he-suffered-crohns-disease-episode-while-travelling-in-mexico/story-fni6uo1m-1227133024660?sv=9468bbf7fac0aee8ce43fcd9670bd44a,""locationGeoPoints":[],"origin":"FATWIRE,""originId":"1227133024660,""originalAssetId":"1227133024660,""originalSource":"The Advertiser,""paidStatus":"NON_PREMIUM,""primaryCategory":"/display/adelaidenow.com.au/AdelaideNow/AN SA News and Photos/,""referenceType":"PRIMARY,""references":[{"contentType":"IMAGE,""id":"06a6db4293960937bac09cc94c3b0113,""origin":"FATWIRE,""originId":"1227133024220,""referenceType":"PRIMARY"}],"related":[],"standFirst":"THE family of a former Adelaide man fighting for his life in Mexico face financial ruin after being forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars for his 24-hour care.,""status":"ACTIVE,""subtitle":"Ryan Maudlen: Former Adelaide man's family face financial ruin after he suffered Crohn's disease episode while travelling in Mexico,""thumbnailImage":{"authors":[],"categories":[],"contentType":"IMAGE,""description":"Saving son's life could financially cripple SA family,""domainLinks":[],"domains":[],"format":"jpg,""height":75,"imageName":"a203a6f0-736e-11e4-bbe7-27f38624ba7e - Thumbnail (100x75) ,""imageType":"THUMBNAIL,""keywords":["sons life,""holidays,""family,""episode"],"link":"http://api.news.com.au/content/1.0/perthnow/images/1227133483539?format=jpg,""locationGeoPoints":[],"origin":"FATWIRE,""originId":"1227133483539,""originalSource":"Facebook,""paidStatus":"NON_PREMIUM,""related":[],"sourceImageId":"1227133482741,""subtitle":"a203a6f0-736e-11e4-bbe7-27f38624ba7e,""title":"Saving son's life could financially cripple SA family,""width":100},"title":"Saving son's life could financially cripple SA family,""markDate":false,"relatedMap":{},"gallery":[],"sectionLink":"/news/south-australia,""sectionName":"South Australia"}],"totalHits":1},"host":"a.tcog.news.com.au,""query":{"category":"/section/adelaidenow.com.au/collection/popular-content/all/24hours/,""format":"json,""maxRelated":"8,""origin":"omniture,""domain":"adelaidenow.com.au,""api_key":"dnjd6r4urftnfjvmtwc7cwgd,""includeRelated":"true"},"product":{"apiKey":"dnjd6r4urftnfjvmtwc7cwgd,""imageApiKey":"e62jprfqb37dchg3qzg2jujr,""recipients":"tcog_admin, tcog_product_common,""name":"AdelaideNow"},"config":{"product":"AdelaideNow,""template":"popular-headline"}}