Commonwealth

How the Commonwealth Games could save Adelaide: Part Four

Over three instalments, architect David Cooke has told us why and how the Commonwealth Games could create a better future for Adelaide. In the final part of the series, he turn his thoughts toward the biggest question of all - how much will it cost, and how much will it be worth?

How the Commonwealth Games could save Adelaide: Part Three

In part three of his series on how the Commonwealth Games could create a better future for Adelaide, architect David Cooke gives a detailed breakdown of what would need to be done to hold the event in the city, and what legacy those choices would create.

How the Commonwealth Games could save Adelaide: Part Two

Last week, architect David Cooke outlined Adelaide's challenges and presented hosting the Commonwealth Games as an inventive solution to our woes. In the second part of this series, he explains how other cities have used the Games as a lever for change, and what we can learn from their examples.

How the Commonwealth Games could save Adelaide: Part One

The problems that plague Adelaide have become normal to us, but that doesn't mean normal solutions are going to work. While undertaking his Masters at The University of California, Berkeley, architect David Cooke came up with a radical plan for the city, which he unpacks in this four-part series.

Fifty years of CASM

We go back to the earliest days of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music, an institution built on Indigenous pride that has fostered generations of First Nations musical talent over its 50 years.

Running towards a challenge

As a former Navy clearance diver, David Mallett thrives on challenges. The proud Ngarrindjeri man founded his project services company while completing an MBA and growing his family by two, and now he's opening up interstate to encourage more First Nations people into professional services.

Going full Circle

Government-run entrepreneurial hub The Circle is nestled in the heart of the city’s buzzing innovation neighbourhood, Lot Fourteen. It offers assistance free of charge to Aboriginal-owned businesses wanting to level-up.

‘Aboriginal tribute to the Queen’: Elders farewell royal

“We need to show respect and ask her ancestors to take her spirit home,” Uncle Major Moogy Sumner told a small group of people gathered on the lawns of Government House last week.