Tag: committee for adelaide
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‘Urgency and political will’: SA’s climate risk threatens entire communities
Climate risk is no longer tomorrow’s problem. For South Australia, it is already reshaping where we can farm, how we power our economy, and how we safeguard our communities. Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) lays this bare. It maps the hazards – more extreme heat, longer droughts, intensifying bushfires and floods, and rising…
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Industry leadership critical to South Australia’s future
That was the message we heard loud and clear at our recent ‘Stronger Australia’ Adelaide business luncheon. With several major infrastructure projects underway across the state, including the AUKUS submarine program, the Northern Water project and Hydrogen Power Station at Whyalla, South Australia is well-positioned to herald in a new era of economic prosperity. The…
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There are opportunities in Adelaide in every way
Joseph John and his wife Anumol made the decision to move to Adelaide for two reasons: family and opportunity. “My brother lives here with his children. He moved from India to Sydney where he worked for a while before choosing to relocate to Adelaide,” John explained. “While growing up in India, I grew up with…
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Why Adelaide beats Malta for lifestyle and opportunities
For Giosuè Pianciamore and his wife Stephania, Adelaide was their first choice when they decided to move their young family from Malta, a small island country in the central Mediterranean Sea, in pursuit of better opportunities and a better quality of life. Pianciamore said Malta, having also been a British colony, shared similarities with Adelaide…
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The reset SA needs to prosper in 2024 and beyond
It’s tempting to think this month’s decision by the Reserve Bank to hold interest rates might mean the worst of the pain is over for homebuyers, businesses and our economy The truth is that the underlying fundamentals for housing remain very tight notwithstanding that the economy is slowing down and the markets are generally very…
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Top end of town signs up to group zero
Called SA Zero (Zero Carbon, Zero Waste), the group was announced today and includes organisations like the RAA, Flinders Port Holdings, along with the CSIRO, University of Adelaide and the State Government working toward the Net Zero Carbon by 2050 target. The Committee for Adelaide is taking the lead with chief executive officer Sam Dighton…
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Adelaide stacks up well globally, but…
Commissioned by Committee for Adelaide, the recently released report Benchmarking Adelaide provides an analysis of Adelaide’s performance and perceptions. Benchmarked against 20 of the world’s most exciting global cities, including Austin, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Portland and San Diego, Adelaide held its own against tough competition. Adelaide ranked highly for business and investment dynamics, liveability and affordability,…
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Adelaide ranked rock bottom for tackling traffic congestion
The city ranks last among its benchmarked peers and “in the bottom third among 170 American and European cities” for the quality of its bike network in the first-of-its-kind study commissioned by the Committee for Adelaide, JLL, Deloitte, RAA and Hames Sharley. “The city’s score is almost half of that of its peers, pointing to…
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Working hard and playing hard in Adelaide
Andrea Conn and Chris Ball met in Tasmania in early 2021, each having returned to Australia after living abroad. She had been in Seattle with Amazon, working in the legal team on Kindle and other products; he was in accelerator programs and startups, operating mainly out of Sydney, Bali and Silicon Valley. After meeting, they…
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Fresh eyes on Adelaide
Lifestyle is a key element that attracted Susan Stone and her French-born husband, Valéry Dugain, and their young daughter here to Adelaide mid last year. “We came to the conclusion that we wanted to make a lifestyle change. We met in Australia, and were married here….we could have gone anywhere…there were lots of places we…