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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Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor has detailed her plan to provide guaranteed Indigenous representation on the Adelaide City Council.
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A senior Adelaide City Council employee has warned that COVID-19 presents “major” challenges for the council's management of its assets, with a key target being missed and future goals potentially set to be tweaked.
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In the wake of Adelaide city councillor Alex Hyde winning Liberal preselection for the seat for Waite on the weekend, two elected members will attempt to overturn the council’s support for the party’s key re-election promise: the Riverbank Arena.
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At a workshop designed to gauge elected members’ thoughts on controversial plans to rezone up to 71ha of Adelaide Park Lands — almost 10 per cent of the city’s green belt — Adelaide City Councillors agreed on a clear message: “oppose building on the Park Lands".
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In a meeting discussing potential fixes to the toxic workplace culture at city council, elected members spent almost an hour trading barbs over alleged instances of bullying.
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Veteran North Adelaide councillor Anne Moran says she doesn't think Adelaide is in good hands at the moment, with an "absolute lack of care" amongst her colleagues leading to a less transparent local government.
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Recently appointed Deputy Lord Mayor Mary Couros tells CityMag although local government can at times feel “toxic”, if her position sends a message to young women they too can have a career and hold power, “that’s great.”
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Typical notions of power and influence are counterbalanced in our list, which seeks to reveal the truth about who needs to be involved if things are going to change around here.
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