Santos rejects $7 billion takeover bid
Adelaide headquartered oil and gas giant Santos has rejected a $7.1 billion “indicative” takeover bid from investment syndicate Scepter Partners. Santos revealed this morning that it received the “indicative, highly conditional and non-binding proposal” from Scepter on October 20. The bid was to acquire the entire company for $6.88 per share. The Santos board met […]
Could SA rule the north again?
Shadows of the past: the tracks of the old Ghan railway disappear into the ochre sands of Oodnadatta on the edge of the Simpson Desert. It seems unlikely that a place called South Australia held jurisdiction all the way to the northern coastline, yet that was the case for 50 odd years – and calls […]
“Self-harming” Adelaide needs design intervention: Horton
BEFORE: The original concept for extending a Kintore Avenue “boulevard” into the grounds of Government House. The State Government’s one-time design guru has stunningly rejected the Weatherill Government’s “city vibrancy”agenda, declaring Adelaide needs an “intervention” to avoid further “self-harm”. Former Integrated Design Commissioner Tim Horton was not so much underwhelmed as outraged by yesterday’s long-delayed […]
Ambitious bid to bring Adelaide horse racing back to Victoria Park
The Victoria Park members’ stand after it had to be moved. HORSE racing would return to the city under a fresh push that has won the backing of Premier Jay Weatherill and key government ministers. A group of influential businessmen is spearheading racing’s return to Victoria Park, an outcome supported by the South Australian Jockey […]
Committee for Adelaide Campaign to lure big fish to SA
Colin Goodall. Picture Campbell Brodie. SOME of South Australia’s best minds have launched a new campaign to lure more big companies to Adelaide as part of ambitious to drive economic growth across the state. The Committee for Adelaide, whose membership include business, charity and arts leaders, is lobbying to have at least two publicly-listed companies […]
Stop thinking Adelaide — and start acting, says the state’s former Commissioner for Integrated Design
A view of Adelaide from the new Torrens foot bridge. Picture: Calum Robertson ADELAIDE “thinks but never grows” because city leaders give people false hope that change is on the way, the state’s former Commissioner for Integrated Design has warned. In a highly outspoken attack, Timothy Horton said a generation of “old thinkers and old […]
Adelaide think-tank offers inspiration for city growth
The group describes itself as a non-partisan think-tank and is self-funded by its members, who are something of a who’s-who of Adelaide. Ian Smith is one of the group’s founders; a corporate lobbyist with strong Liberal Party ties, but his motivation is more personal than political. “I’ve got two young kids, a nine-year-old and a […]
The Committee for Adelaide
Committee for Adelaide pushes transformation
Adelaide could be a smart small city built on nano- and bio-tech industries – if it can come to accept that old ways and old industries aren’t the future, says a high-powered new local think-tank. The Committee for Adelaide, a creation of local business and public service leaders, entrepreneurs, consultants, publishers and media identities, was […]
Ian Smith: Committee for Adelaide is based on a proven model with many possibilities for our state
But what if we started with the notion that the sky could be the limit for this state? That doesn’t mean everything should be seen through rose-tinted spectacles; indeed, we must always be a community that has a healthy regard for debate and questioning. However, it seems we must address the prevailing attitude of despondency […]
