MORNING: Morning edition: ‘I teared u p’: Beautiful Barossa lives up to hype

Email Barossa Park’s first AFL match was a raging success – and everything premier Peter Malinauskas imagined. Matt Turner and Ruby Stewart recap an historic day in Adelaide.

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