The Adelaide City Council has slashed two weighty words from the city’s upcoming four-year public art strategy, after opposing elected members engaged in a debate about why the streets should have "beautiful" rather than edgy art.
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Two challengers for the Adelaide City Council’s south ward - a business and residential neighbourhood - have revealed themselves. Despite both having connections to state political parties, they argue they are not trying to stack the chamber.
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The “corrosive nature” and “relentless domination of the Team Adelaide faction” has forced central ward councillor Greg Mackie out the door, he says, in a resignation letter sent to staff and elected members today.
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Wilson Security will guard all of the City of Adelaide’s physical assets – including Adelaide Town Hall, Rundle Mall and the Adelaide Central Market – until 30 June. One councillor hopes “going forward” the council will award the work to a company not previously involved in offshore detention.
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Department for Education officials told Adelaide city councillors last night that 1800sqm of Adelaide Park Lands was needed to accommodate the expanding Adelaide Botanic High School, with the government seeking a land swap to seal the deal.
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Adelaide Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor has lamented that a council discussion on Ukraine last night descended into a squabble between rival factions over near-identical ideas to build closer ties with a city in the war-torn country.
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A self-described progressive Adelaide city councillor who introduced a motion last night designed to “acknowledge the great contribution of women” ended up suggesting elected members “boot off” a female adversary from the working group that helps make these decisions.
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An Adelaide City Council report has found pre-formed plastic packaging for medication is “unsuitable” for the organisation to recycle “at this time”, leaving one pharmacist footing a $277 weekly bill to divert the waste from landfill and questioning the council’s commitment to the circular economy.
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With Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor sick with COVID-19 and leader of the majority voting bloc Team Adelaide, Alexander Hyde, campaigning in the state election, the so-called Independents ruled the Adelaide City Council for one night only. Here’s what happened.
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