Welcome to new members
We would like to welcome three new members to the Committee for Adelaide who have joined us in 2018. They include: SkyCity Adelaide Casino: The casino is a major player along the Riverbank precinct with a $330m redevelopment planned, including a hotel, restaurants and cafes and a rooftop bar. Australian Gas Infrastructure Group: This is […]
Committee for Adelaide becomes a Carbon Neutral Adelaide founding partner
Committee for Adelaide is proud to announce our new partnership with Carbon Neutral Adelaide. As a founding partner, we have been recognised for our commitment and contribution to reducing emissions, helping to make the City of Adelaide the world’s first carbon neutral city. The Carbon Neutral Adelaide Partner Program celebrates and empowers business and community […]
Political lunch: Premier Jay Weatherill
It was great to have Premier Jay Weatherill to lunch with Committee for Adelaide members for an intimate round-table discussion. A big thank you to PwC Adelaide for hosting. This lunch concluded our series of political lunches with our State’s leaders which have given our members valuable insights in the lead up to the state […]
Political lunch: Nick Xenophon
Our series of political boardroom lunches continued with an excellent roundtable discussion with SA BEST leader Nick Xenophon and Senator Rex Patrick. In the lead up to the state election, these lunches are providing our members with an opportunity to engage in intimate and constructive discussions with our state’s leaders. A big thank you to […]
OPINION: Adelaide is about the stories we tell ourselves
IS Adelaide slowly shaking off its big country town mentality and starting to believe that, as a mid-sized global city, we have enormous potential in the new economy? Visiting Thinker in Residence Allyson Hewitt, a social entrepreneur expert from Toronto, is starting to think so. She says she has noticed a change in Adelaide since […]
Get to know our new board members
Three new people have joined our Board, ensuring gender balance and the diversity needed to achieve real changes for Adelaide. New Chair James Blackburn has welcomed the new Board members and paid tribute to retiring member David Paterson, founder of Social Capital and Industry Professor of the University of South Australia. New member Stephenie de […]
MEDIA RELEASE: Committee for Adelaide elects new Chair James Blackburn
James Blackburn, a partner with PwC in Adelaide and former Melburnian, has been elected the New Chair of the Committee for Adelaide. Taking over the reins from inaugural and outgoing Chair Colin Goodall, who has held the position since the Committee’s inception four years ago, James said he was excited about the city’s future and […]
Political Lunch: Steven Marshall
While as an organisation we are a-political, we engage closely in the political process and organised a series of boardroom lunches with our State’s leaders in the lead up to the election in March 2018. First up was Opposition Leader Steven Marshall with numerous issues discussed ranging from infrastructure to exports, population growth, the public […]
Chuck Wolfe: Seeing the Better City
It was a pleasure to bring Chuck Wolfe to Adelaide for the Festival of Architecture and Design as part of 2017 Open state. Chuck Wolfe is from Seattle and spoke about his new book, Seeing the Better City where he highlights how the perspective of the observer is key to understanding the dynamics of urban […]
Thinker in Residence: Allyson Hewitt
It was great to partner with the Don Dunstan Foundation and introduce our members to Thinker in Residence Allyson Hewitt who shared inspiring ideas to make Adelaide a centre of social innovation.
