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  • Ombudsman forces public apology over text messages breach

    Ombudsman forces public apology over text messages breach

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    Adelaide City councillor Mary Couros formally apologised for sending text messages that were ruled a breach of the Local Government Act at last night’s Adelaide City Council meeting. “I rise to issue a public apology for my actions during a meeting of council held on the 28th of May 2024,” she said. “I apologise for…

  • ‘Underwhelming’ $300k North Adelaide artwork benched

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    The council last night discussed concept designs from South Australian artist Sam Songalio for two permanent glass fibre reinforced concrete sculptures to be installed on the western corner of the Melbourne and Jerningham Street intersection in North Adelaide, opposite the Lion Hotel. The public art proposal includes a 2.5-metre diameter circular structure and a 3.7-metre-long…

  • Sparks fly over New Year’s Eve fireworks returning to Elder Park

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    The Adelaide City Council overwhelmingly supported a bid to bring the New Year’s Eve party back to Elder Park this year and to allocate $400,000 from the 2023-24 Business Plan and Budget for its delivery. The locational throwback, spearheaded by Deputy Lord Mayor Phillip Martin, will require the administration to present plans to revive the…

  • Factional claims rise again at Town Hall

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    At the close of the first Adelaide City Council meeting for 2023 on Tuesday night, south ward councillor Henry Davis left the chamber shouting at CityMag that what we just witnessed was “the rise of a new Adelaide City Council faction”. Tension last night boiled over when Adelaide city councillors voted for elected members to…

  • ‘Insulting’: Adelaide Town Hall portrait divides council

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    “Here we are discussing empowering women and one council member talks about booting off a woman,” Deputy Lord Mayor Arman Abrahimzadeh told the virtual Adelaide City Council meeting last night. Abrahimzadeh’s remarks came after area councillor Keiran Snape’s targetted spray at Team Adelaide rival, north ward Councillor Mary Couros, suggesting she was not fit to…

  • Blister packs placed in council’s ‘too hard to recycle’ basket

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    A recent report by the Adelaide City Council administration found medical blister packs “unsuitable for inclusion” in the city’s work-in-progress recycling stations. “’Hard to recycle items’ were investigated and deemed unsuitable for inclusion in a ‘recycling station’ at this time,” the report says, listing blister packs as the first item. “100 per cent aluminium blister…

  • Decision to bulldoze 150-year-old bluestone deferred

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    Council Assessment Panel members voted last night in favour of deferring the approval to demolish the single-storey 266 Melbourne Street property in North Adelaide to make way for a four-level apartment block. The recommendation by administration, detailed in their report, was that committee members approve the development plan submitted by Future Urban for The Sunshine…

  • Meet North Adelaide’s most stubborn super recycler

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    Morag Horton’s hand disappears into a tall cardboard box and emerges clutching dozens of silver sheets. They’re blister packs – pre-formed plastic packaging used to seal small consumable goods like medication. If you want your local pharmacy to order blister pack recycling bins, visit the TerraCycle website for more information. These slips are a necessary…

  • City councillor found to have ‘disrespected’ Lord Mayor, staff

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    Councillors will tomorrow night discuss whether to order Martin to publicly apologise for his comments, after an investigation by law firm Kelledy Jones determined he breached three code of conduct clauses. The first offending comment was directed at Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor at a public meeting in March about the now-scrapped east-west bikeway. During the…

  • Community consultation reveals support for fewer Adelaide City councillors

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    Data presented at an Adelaide City Council committee meeting this week showed ratepayers in the City of Adelaide support reducing the total number of elected members. Last October, national consultancy agency Holmes Dyer was tendered to conduct an independent review into whether the City of Adelaide is adequately represented by its local government. This included…