Adelaide’s aspirations for greener growth

In the wake of environmental activist Greta Thunburg’s “blah blah blah” speech about empty rhetoric on global climate action, InReview takes a look at how the South Australian development sector is tackling low-carbon targets.

A matter of pronouns

It started with a haircut… ActNow Theatre co-CEO and executive director Rhen Soggee gets personal in this article explaining why they use they/them pronouns, and how identifying as gender non-conforming can create challenges that blur the boundary between a person’s private and the professional lives.

Space invaders: What makes good public art?

Whether it’s beautiful, humorous, provocative or poignant, public art needs that X factor to be successful. In the second article in a two-part series, John Neylon highlights some prime examples in Adelaide.

The new Women’s and Children’s Hospital misses an opportunity to connect patients to park land, proposing a car park, roadways and transit hub on the adjacent park land precinct instead. Image supplied

Banking on the River

A decade on from the first Adelaide Riverbank Masterplan, and in the light of relentless development proposals for this Adelaide park lands precinct, is it time for a new plan?

Adelaide’s towering tensions

Communities in Adelaide and other cities are pushing for a scale of development that suits their location and doesn’t steal their daylight, dwarf their backyard or destroy the character that gives soul to their streets.

The art of radio

Much of what defines successful radio was pioneered in Adelaide – a market that is now struggling in at least one key shift and has too few women on air. How can local radio re-assert its relevance?

Has the government rescued the arts in this budget?

The latest Federal Budget contains some wins for the creative sector, but the Federal Government needs to address the whole ecosystem of the arts so individual artists and small organisations get adequate support.

Adelaide needs fearless critics

Honest reviewing puts everything in the crosshairs – creators, interpreters, the audience and the reviewer – and the arts needs more of it.

'We don’t need to see our blood to know we bleed'

The criticism of Spanish artist Santiago Sierra’s plan to use the blood of First Nations’ people in a now-cancelled project for Dark Mofo is not about censorship or cancel culture, writes Paola Balla. It is about accountability and ethics.

The trouble with stars

There is much to miss when the annual Fringe frenzy ends in Adelaide. The disappearance of star ratings is not one of them.

A Trump fan's elaborate show of support in Western Pennsylvania, 2016. Photo: Zoe Daniel

Lessons from Trumpland: Why his supporters shouldn’t be ignored

Donald Trump’s presidency should not be dismissed as an aberration. Former Adelaide reporter Roscoe Whalan argues in a new book that the factors that propelled Trump to the White House are still potent in America and elsewhere.

How the Oscars finally made it less lonely for women at the top

Two female filmmakers have been nominated for Best Director in the Oscars’ 93rd year. Both their films are about the dashing of dreams, with female protagonists and flashes of cinematic innovation.