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Notes on Adelaide
by Solstice Podcasting
Notes on Adelaide is a weekly current affairs podcast driven by the independent journalism of InDaily, CityMag and SALIFE.
Episodes
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The Right to Smile
Trudy Lin is a dentist but also an activist – and her primary measure of success is ensuring everyone has the capacity to eat, speak and smile. Trudy is one of only a handful of special needs dentists in Australia but she says the need in this underfunded area is huge. She makes a compelling case...
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The Cradle of Life
In 1946, sharp-eyed geologist Reg Sprigg noticed some strange patterns in the rocks of the Flinders Ranges. What he had discovered was a groundbreaking a fossil record of complex creatures dating back 550 million years. The Ediacara fossils were – and remain – the earliest record of complex...
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Changing the Game
Last weekend was a historic coming together of two key moments in women’s sport. The AFLW premiership was decided, with Melbourne winning its first premiership, and the Adelaide Strikers won its first title in cricket’s WBBL. It was a weekend of high-profile, nationally televised sport that...
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
In South Australia's north lies an alien landscape - scarred by more than a century of mining. The huge site desperately needs further rehabilitation but, in this week's episode, we detail allegations of regulatory failure in relation to this and many other mine sites across the country. For…
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The End of the A Team
The public has spoken and Team Adelaide has been all but vanquished in the city council elections. This week, we take a closer look at this unusual blip in the history of local democracy in Adelaide. Team Adelaide – a collection of aligned candidates who essentially took power at Town Hall after...
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In Real Life
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has focused attention on the social media platform’s worst aspects. But there was a time in Adelaide when the site brought people together. Musk has one key connection with South Australia – his “big battery” which was the biggest of its kind when installed in…
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Making Better Chocolate
In this week’s episode, we explore how a partnership between Adelaide researchers, Vanuatu cocoa farmers and Australian chocolate makers has turned a so-so crop into one of the best in the world. While the cocoa bean doesn’t grow in South Australia, we have a powerful connection with chocolate...
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Water, Everywhere
This week, we explore the implications of rising River Murray water levels in this wet and wild spring. It’s a time of trepidation for river communities, but the environmental impacts could be profound. Floods in Victoria and some historic dumps of rain on this side of the border have authorities...
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Park Lands Protectors
They’ve been called Nimbys and park narcs, but those who devote themselves to protecting and celebrating Adelaide’s park lands say they are involved in an essentially democratic project – to keep the city’s unique green belt open to everyone in the community. The State Government’s proposal to...
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A Traumatised System
One of the themes of state politics this year has been a relentless focus on jammed hospital emergency departments, with ambulances ramped outside. The new Labor Government promised to fix the ramping crisis. It hasn’t done that – if anything, things are now worse. What this political imperative...
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The Mammoth in the Room
South Australia has a well-earned reputation as a renewable energy state. Yet, our biggest company – by a long way – is in the fossil fuel business. Every year for the past eight years, InDaily has published a yearly ranking of the biggest local companies - the South Australian Business Index –...
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Primary School Prisoners
Should we be imprisoning children as young as 10 in South Australia? In this week's episode, we explore alternatives to detention for children who come in contact with the justice system. A campaign to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14 is gaining traction – but there’s been a...
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Cultural Deficit
How did South Australia’s lose its edge in arts and culture infrastructure and what can be done to fix it? This week’s episode was recorded last week at the Lab – one of the venues at LIGHT – a not-for-profit arts and hospitality venture on Light Square. The Spotlight on the Arts forum is an...
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Return to The Exeter
Is there a better litmus test of the life of the city than The Exeter? In this week’s episode, we venture to the front bar of the much-loved Rundle Street pub. We revisit a conversation with Kevin Gregg, The Exeter’s long-standing publican, that we recorded in 2019 - before anyone had ever heard...
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Just Breathe
Up and down the coast, you’ll increasingly find South Australians happily jumping into the freezing water, despite our long, cold winter. In this week’s episode we meet some lovers of the cold who believe it’s doing them a world of good. First, we go down to the Fleurieu Peninsua, where retired...
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Beyond the Backyard
The pandemic led to a boom in backyard gardening – a historic trend in times of crisis as people turn to things they can control; activities that also make them feel good and put good food on their plate. But in South Australia in recent years there’s been another gardening trend – green thumbs...
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The Dying Deposition
In this week’s episode, Simon Royal’s exploration of a troubling, unsolved mystery in Adelaide more than 50 years ago, led him to the stories of women who were caught up in often tragic legal and social consequences. Warning: This episode contains material that may be distressing for some...
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The Social Vaccine
How can South Australia’s health system move beyond crisis mode? The problems seems intractable but there are proven answers. Political reality dictates that our government – which promised to fix the ramping crisis – will focus on a short-term fix for over-crowded hospitals. But what’s really...
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The Guardian
For the past five years, few people in South Australian public life have had a weight of responsibility as heavy as that of Penny Wright. Penny is the Guardian for Children and Young People – it’s her job to advocate for children and young people in care in South Australia. Technically, the kids...
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How to be a Transparency Warrior
Freedom of Information laws are meant to lead to more open government but, in reality, they often have the opposite effect. Why do those who are meant to represent us try so hard to keep us in the dark - and what can you do to foil their plans? This week we get advice on negotiating the FOI…
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Radio Revolutionaries
As Australian radio prepared to celebrate its centenary, this week's episode looks back on the Adelaide radio trailblazers who shaped the industry in this country. Next year will be the 100th birthday of radio in Australia. And like so many milestones for the medium, Adelaide will have much to...
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Under Scrutiny
Political journalism is under the microscope more than ever before. In this episode, we talk to one of South Australia’s most experienced political journalists – and new columnist – Matthew Abraham.InDaily Abraham has been a state and federal political reporter, and a long-time ABC radio…
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Give Me Shelter
In this week’s episode, we talk to two community leaders who believe South Australia’s housing crisis has become an emergency and, like the response to other emergencies like floods or bushfires, this requires an immediate response. There are tens of thousands of people on the waitlist for public...
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Return from Exile
In this week's episode – Return from Exile – we explore how one refugee family in Adelaide has bridged cultural and historical gulfs through food. Our guests are Carmen Garcia, an Adelaide businesswoman who runs a social enterprise seeking to connect people like refugees with employers, and...
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Vexed in the City
In this week's episode, the factional divisions within the Adelaide city council have boiled over again, with a prominent councillor quitting within sight of the next local government elections. He explains to us why his time on the council became intolerable. Senior public servant Greg Mackie...
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The Voices of Emo Park
There’s a place in the city that you might know as Hindmarsh Square or it’s more recent Kaurna designation Mukata. But to many who frequent the northern sectors of the square, it’s simply Emo Park. Emo Park – even the council recognises the name – is a significant place to the young people who...
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The Cars That Ate Adelaide
How did Adelaide move from having Australia’s best tram network to a city that relies so heavily on cars? And what does this mean for Adelaide’s future? Transport historian and veteran public transport planner Tom Wilson joins us, along with UniSA researcher Jennifer Bonham – together they want…
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The Wash Up
In this week's episode, and reporters talk about life inside the eye of the federal election's frantic final week. Embedded with Scott Morrison's and Anthony Albanese's travelling circuses, they discuss gotcha moments, agendas, the surreal environment and who the exhausting exercise benefits…
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The Oval
Today, what’s in store for Adelaide Oval – the 150-year-old sporting ground that says so much about South Australians and how we think about ourselves. In 1871, Adelaide Oval was created after the formation of the SA Cricket Association. A few years later it hosted a Test match – the first in a...
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The Thin Blue Line
Fifty years ago this week, University of Adelaide law lecturer George Duncan was murdered. Nobody was ever found guilty of his drowning in the Torrens, but his death on May 10, 1972, changed Australia - leading directly to the decriminalisation of homosexuality. That development has been examined...
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Independent Insurgence
Independent women are hoping to shake up this year's federal election and, they hope, the shape of government in Australia - and the political establishment is in a state of near panic. In this week's episode we talk to two women – Jo Dyer, an independent candidate previously linked with Labor…
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Culture Clash: Is arts funding in Australia broken?
This week’s episode was recorded last week at The Lab at LIGHT – a not-for-profit arts and hospitality venture on Light Square. The forum was an initiative of LIGHT and InReview – also a not-for-profit venture from Solstice Media designed to rekindle arts reviewing and critique in South…
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Picking Up the Pieces
In this week’s episode, host David Washington and senior journalist Tom Richardson talk to newly elected Opposition Leader David Speirs – the man who has been given the epic task of rebuilding the South Australian Liberal Party.InDaily We talk to Speirs about his path to politics and his goals…
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Peak Covid
As South Australia wonders whether we’ve hit our COVID peak, InDaily senior journalist Jemma Chapman explores the issues with two of the most credible local commentators on the pandemic – GP Rod Pearce and epidemiologist Adrian Esterman. Our discussion goes much further than the peak of cases and...
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The Boy Who Didn't Matter
In this episode, we explore the Adelaide crime that changed the nation and how one journalist’s search for a missing link to the victim led him to another, heartbreaking story of loss and unresolved pain for the man’s friends and family. Notes on Adelaide is a weekly current affairs podcast…
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What the Hell Just Happened?!
The state election result is one of the most emphatic in South Australian history. After just one term, the Marshall Liberal Government has been swept aside by the Peter Malinauskas-led Labor party. How can the Liberals regroup after losing swathes of their heartland - and what can we expect from...
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The Weight of Wangayarta
At Wangayarta, the Kaurna community has established what is being hailed as a world-first memorial site, working in collaboration with the South Australian Museum, Adelaide Cemeteries Authority and State Government. The night before the historic burial of 130 Old People’s remains, CityMag camped...
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