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  • Ex-Lord Mayor to head SA Heritage Council

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    The government this morning said that Verschoor, – who lost her mayoral re-election bid to former Lord Mayor and Labor minister Dr Jane Lomax-Smith in November – would take up her three-year role in April after beating 16 other applicants. It said that SA Heritage Council funding had also been boosted by an extra $10m…

  • Integrity concerns as Patrick considers election result challenge

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    Despite announcing her run weeks after her opponents, Lomax-Smith was on Saturday night declared the provisional winner of the City of Adelaide Lord Mayor race – defeating Patrick by the razor thin margin of 52 votes after preferences. Incumbent Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor lost her bid for a second-term in office and was behind both…

  • The Adelaide Park Lands needs its ‘political champion’: Patrick

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    “While there’s been plenty of talk for many years, there’s been very little ambition and no real action,” Lord Mayoral candidate Rex Patrick told CityMag. “There is no schedule and there are no reports as to progress.” To make it onto the World Heritage List, according to the official UNESCO website, a natural or cultural site…

  • Food recycling bin rollout for Rundle Mall

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    While green bins and compost bags may already be the norm in homes throughout Adelaide, the introduction of green bins in Rundle Mall will signal the first time shoppers will have the option to properly separate their wastes. The 12-month waste trial was launched a short time ago by Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor and Environment…

  • ‘I’ll announce when I’m ready’: Lord Mayor coy on re-election bid

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    Patrick today launched his campaign for Lord Mayor on a platform of council transparency, better governance and a new long-term plan for the city. The former federal senator has been a prominent critic of the council’s confidentiality processes and has vowed to run as a factionally-unaligned candidate to reject “majority politics where the winner takes…

  • Construction finally starts at North Adelaide Le Cornu site

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    Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor and Commercial & General executive chairman Jamie McClurg this morning broke ground on the 7500 square-metre site for the first time in over 30 years, marking the start of three years of construction. InDaily previously reported that Commercial & General would start building the “Eighty Eight O’Connell” development on April 4…

  • ‘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…

  • ‘Enormous potential’: Govt mulls Women’s and Children’s Hospital site future

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    A spokesperson from Renewal SA told InDaily preliminary investigations were underway to determine how the current Women’s and Children’s Hospital could be repurposed, with conceptual planning, market research and services and engineering studies forming part of that work. The spokesperson said the government agency had already started planning so that repurposing could start as soon…

  • Lord Mayor explains how she’s fighting for a Kaurna voice to council

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    First Nations representation in the Adelaide City Council should be legislated, Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor told CityMag. “I believe that we should look to the City of Adelaide Act to designate that one elected member must be representative of Kaurna,” she said. Verschoor told the Adelaide City Council Reconciliation Committee last week that she was…

  • Do not develop Nellie Raminyemmerin Frome Park: councillors

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    On Tuesday night Adelaide City Council elected members voted in support of councillor Phil Martin’s motion to reiterate to the State Government – as well as Labor and minor parties – that the council opposes any development or rezoning of Nellie Raminyemmerin Frome Park. Last November, the council formally provided feedback to the State Government…