‘We want the Kaurna voice at the table’: Lord Mayor pushes for Indigenous voice to council
Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor wants a change to the City of Adelaide Act to ensure a Kaurna representative sits on the Adelaide City Council.
MoreLord Mayor Sandy Verschoor wants a change to the City of Adelaide Act to ensure a Kaurna representative sits on the Adelaide City Council.
MoreThe City of Adelaide is working with its Pirie Street tenant The Golden Wattle to remove the venue’s pokies, as per a 2019 decision to remove gaming machines from all council-owned properties.
MoreFive Four Entertainment's 20,000-max capacity festival will feature dancing and international acts, and absolutely no cordoned-off COVID-safe pods. “Our plan is to deliver a normal music festival as best we can,” organiser Craig Lock says.
MoreA special Adelaide City Council meeting was held last night to find ways to help city residents and ratepayers battle Omicron’s economic fallout – but the majority Team Adelaide faction used its numbers to postpone a vote on possible measures until the end of the week.
MoreWhile they’re stoked to have received a handout, some Adelaide live music venues owners are frustrated they're still in a position of needing subsidies to survive ongoing COVID-19 trading restrictions.
MoreAccording to a recent national survey, only 11.4 per cent of females in South Australia cycle, compared to 23.6 per cent of males. Researchers and cycling advocates say better infrastructure is needed to increase the number of women commuting via bicycle.
MoreFrom an investigation into e-scooter speeds in the city to a revelation that five Adelaide city councillors have not provided proof of their vaccination status – this is everything important that occurred at the four-hour decision-making meeting this week.
MoreAt Wangayarta, the Kaurna community has established a new kind of cemetery, laying to rest 130 Old People whose remains have been stored in boxes for decades. The night before the burial, CityMag camped with Kaurna elders to hear about the significance of this moment.
MoreAs the Puti on Kaurna Yerta pilot program, designed to help Aboriginal remote visitors return to Country, comes to an end, CityMag spent a couple of hours getting to know the people the site has helped.
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