Adelaide - Smart City Smart city advice for Adelaide from ex-US presidential contender Martin O'Malley Adelaide aspires to be a smart city, but there are lots of different ideas about what that will involve. The SA Government is currently trying to lure innovative companies to the state, from the me...

It's not the 30 Year Plan but it could be of interest in this discussion. Shaping Future Cities - Make it Adelaide This 28 page report (first in a series of four) by Deloitte can be downloaded from the link below. The later chapters highlight a range of industries and growth ideas for Adelaide to se...

Govt press release. Road safety on rural roads - RIAWS State of the art technology to be trialled at 4 rural intersections In an Australian-first, state-of-the-art technology which triggers safety measures when vehicles are detected approaching intersections will be installed at four key rural locat...

Adelaide Central Market - changes to Grote St car park entry The Adelaide Central Market hopes the restoration of a key right-hand turn into its car park will bring back hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised western suburbs shoppers and earn traders an extra $16 million each year. According to Ce...

Sadly, it appears the Port Princess has sunk, off the SE Coast, on its voyage to Melbourne. Four men have been rescued from the Port Princess boat as it sank off the south-east coast of South Australia while on a voyage from Port Adelaide bound for Melbourne. The alarm was raised this morning when t...

New Adelaide Metro digital bus stop , featuring real time information has been revealed in Grote Street. The new signage is an initiative of a joint partnership between the State govt / DPTI and the ACC. Feedback is being sought. This is the first of a proposed suite of bus stop signage designed to...

Adding to PeFe's recent post on the Wonderwalls Festival .... coming up at the end of this week. Wonderwalls Festival is back, bigger and brighter 6 international and 23 Australian mural artists will create works of art on wall spaces in Port Adelaide. Adding colour to the Port - a free 3 day festiv...

Australian Space Agency? and role for South Australia? In addition to the successful launch by NASA of the Adelaide Uni built CubeSat 'nanosatellite' to join a network of 50 CubeSats investigating the thermosphere.... ... reports are out that SA is keen to play a role in a new Australian Space Agen...

Great story about an innovative medical technology company setting up at the Tonsley hub. And employing some of the highly skilled ex-Holden auto workers. Watch: Today Tonight Selling SA https://www.todaytonightadelaide.com.au/stories/selling-sa Plus a recent item on the Tonsley hub in BFM How Tonsl...

Not intended. :D Too long to post full item here and mindful of copyright issues. Yes, Read More - IF interested in the 5-Minute Rule. It's easier to re-post articles from open sites eg ABC News, but copyright restrictions and password protections limit others. Short excerpts with acknowledgment and...

Good explanation of the '5-Minute Rule' proposal to help negate current price spikes (facilitated by 30 minute costing intervals) during peak demand - and generation operators gaming the system for exorbitant charges. This rule is espoused by John Hewson, Simon Holmes à Court and others and forms pa...

Lyon Group announces $1b battery and solar farm for SA Riverland Good news for clean energy, energy security and jobs for SA. (Move to new topic/thread?) A $1 billion battery and solar farm will be built at Morgan in South Australia's Riverland by year's end in a project the proponents describe as ...

City v Sprawl: a tale of two cities (Melbourne) Re-visit on a popular theme. As the population booms in the capital city ... Melbourne is growing — upwards in the middle, and outwards at the edges. How does family life in the booming centre compare to the sprawling fringes? ABC News: http://www.abc...

ACC decision-making paralysed by conflicts of interest, unable to reach a quorum to vote on some Council matters. Good to see they were able to resolve some new carpets for the Town Hall. The Adelaide City Council was legally prevented from making any decision on a modification to King William Stree...

ICYMI. Great story about a massive mural painted on a Coonalpyn Silo, putting this small Coorong township (on the Dukes Highway) on the map. The art silos have given the town and local community a welcome social and economic boost. The artist used a cherry picker to paint the 30 metre high silos and...