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December 2, 2021

The Select Committee on Wage Theft handed down its final report

The State Parliamentary report made 37 recommendations into addressing wage theft, such as making it a punishable criminal offence, establishing a wage theft inspector, and banning anyone found to have used wage theft as a business model from holding company director roles.

October 28, 2021

Up in smoke: Ammar Ali won’t pipe down over the shisha ban

Hindley Street hookah lounge owner Ammar Ali believes the COVID-19 shisha ban is "discriminatory" and "racist", and says he and his colleagues in the industry want to return to trade.

October 14, 2021

Four views of the Adelaide Park Lands’ future

As the Adelaide Park Lands approaches its 200th birthday, CityMag spoke with a futurist, an ecologist, a sustainability expert and an Indigenous elder about whether our green belt will be fit for purpose in 2037.

July 15, 2021

Three ideas you should hear at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas

We spoke to three South Australian academics appearing at this year's Festival of Ideas about how to protect space from corporate interests, how social media has changed our sense of self, and how soon we can expect to be eating pizza in space.

March 25, 2021

‘Are you going to pay… or not?’: Untangling RCC’s late payment practices

RCC is one of Adelaide’s most-hyped Fringe hubs, flooding social media with photos of crammed crowds and stacked music lineups. But several contractors allege the organisation left them in thousands of dollars of debt months after the 2020 festival was packed down.

March 18, 2021

‘We’re here for all the women that came before us and all the women that will come ahead of us’

Thousands of protesters took to Tarntanyangga Victoria Square on Monday in solidarity with victims of rape and sexual assault. Tears and compounded frustration reverberated through the crowd, against the permeance of gendered violence through everyday life.

January 21, 2021