InSider is back, and we have plenty to talk about. This week, we show you how a bin sticker story is born and killed and born again, take you through social media feuds and fake endorsements and crown our favourite pooches.

Your favourite Friday read is back (sorry, literally everything else InDaily publishes on a Friday). You’ll have to forgive its absence; it’s been flu season after all, but this week there has been too much happening for InSider to ignore.

From a bin sticker newsroom debacle, to Trev rearing his satanic head with a poorly timed message for the Crows. We’ve also got the latest political feuds playing out on social media and the one you won’t want to miss: top office dogs. Happy reading.

InSider started the week with a zip around the leafy city-fringe of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters…a zip that is more of a crawl these days because, as of July, in residential streets it’s 40km/h and InSider is, of course, a law-abiding citizen.

We were perusing the area off the back of a tip that reminders of the speed limit with the authorisation of local member, Labor’s Cressida O’Hanlon, had been stuck on trees.

City-fringe suburb, angry residents, speed limit changes, signs stapled to trees and a politician potentially mixed up in it all: that is basically the venn diagram of weird news shit people in Adelaide will read about.

We spent some time building the case. We determined the signs were actually bin stickers, handed out by O’Hanlon’s office, encouraging the community to do their bit and remind the neighbourhood that slower streets are safer.

At first, we thought O’Hanlon was out there herself stapling them into the trunks (she wasn’t), and we even had some fiery quotes from the Liberal Shadow Government Accountability Minister Ben Hood MLC about how if it was her (again, it wasn’t), the “stunt” potentially breached a bunch of laws.

As we braced ourselves to break the internet with the bizarre story, we thought we’d better do our due diligence, scan the site for how many signs were actually out there, and find out conclusively who put them up.

Our hopes were dashed when we could only find two bin stickers turned tree signs. And after hearing denials from O’Hanlon and Hood that neither was out there with a staple gun themselves, and an awkward phone call to the local council, we deduced it was just one angry resident who was fed up with hoons on their street.

Egg on us, I guess.

So the story was dead. And InSider is not above admitting when we’ve been led on a wild goose chase.

But in an attempt to salvage the story, we wondered how much it would have cost to print the stickers in the first place – and whether it is the place of an MP to do so.

Especially an MP whose government banned corflutes, and is an A3 bin sticker, not just a stickier corflute?

Well, no. According to O’Hanlon, we cannot compare the two.

“Wheelie bin stickers are a helpful, legal and frequently used method of getting across important community messages,” O’Hanlon said.

“The stickers are less intrusive and far more environmentally friendly than corflutes. While corflutes are banned, wheelie bin stickers are specifically permitted by our electoral laws (see s22(2)(e) of the Electoral Regulations 2024).”

But we hadn’t given up! A quick call to the company that printed the stickers told us that........

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