In today’s column, Adelaide Cabaret Festival artistic director Ali McGregor opens up a public stoush with local arts critics, and Cory Bernardi looks to build his own high-tech aid to target voters at the next federal election.
In today’s Notes On Adelaide column: the impending loss of decades of local journalism experience and allegations multiply about a lauded former Labor insider’s past.
South Australia’s young business leaders have challenged the stereotypes about the state, painting a picture of SA as a place where entrepreneurs can work together to challenge the status quo.
The state and federal governments will spend nearly $200 million to fund more than 20,000 new apprenticeships and traineeships in South Australia, fulfilling a Liberal state election promise.
Metcash will be hit with a $352 million impairment charge after one of its customers shunned its new South Australian distribution centre.
Notes on Adelaide
In today’s edition of our new column, Notes On Adelaide, a new state MP is set to face a defamation trial this year, a veteran Adelaide news director quits, and Business SA launches a furious defence of its chief executive.
ABC Radio Adelaide has surged to the lead in the key breakfast shift in the latest radio ratings.
News
Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths are stepping up their war on plastic, introducing new targets to slash the amount of wrapping on fresh fruit and vegetables as well as tackling food waste.
Business
Retail spending fell in South Australia in April, with national figures showing SA was the only state to record a drop.
A $700 million settlement between financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC and Commonwealth Bank of Australia over money laundering has been welcomed by the Federal Government.
UPDATED | US private equity firm The Carlyle Group is looking to Asian markets after buying out major Australian wine company, Accolade Wines – the owner of more than 50 labels including Hardys.
An expert judging panel has considered a list of more than 500 young local entrepreneurs to find South Australia’s next generation of leaders in InDaily’s 40 Under 40 awards.
Independent grocery retailer Drakes Supermarkets has received council planning consent to build a new $80 million distribution centre in Adelaide’s north, which it says will create up to 250 ongoing jobs.
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News
Pauline Hanson has laid out why One Nation can no longer support the Turnbull government’s business tax cuts, blaming a lack of action on immigration, energy costs and encouraging firms to take on apprenticeships.
News
UPDATED | Telstra customers are reporting outages across both the 3G and 4G networks, and a map produced by fault tracking site Aussie Outages shows the problem is affecting a number of metropolitan hubs around the country.
News
AGL has refused Alinta Energy’s $250 million offer to buy Liddell Power Station and reaffirmed its decision to close the plant in 2022.
News
Harbour Energy has increased its takeover bid for Adelaide-headquartered oil and gas giant Santos.
Opinion
The Marshall Government will need to be given at least two terms for its economic prescription to restore South Australia’s long-lost competitive advantage, writes economist Richard Blandy.
Opinion
The federal budget once again avoids the hard work of structural change to Australia’s tax system, writes Adelaide tax lawyer Andrea Michaels.
“Discrimination against people with a disability in the workplace is a big issue in South Australia but a ground-breaking documentary shows how perceptions can be challenged, writes Commissioner for Equal Opportunity Niki Vincent.
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Business
As nations around the globe search for new ways of handling waste following China’s decision to stop processing the world’s rubbish, a South Australian man is searching for investors to help build a commercial system that converts waste plastic into biogas.
Business
AMP shares continue to fall after the wealth management giant admitted charging clients for advice they never received and said its staff had repeatedly lied to the corporate watchdog.
News
Following a turbulent transition to independence, Radio Adelaide supporters and board members say they have renewed optimism a new membership structure will lead to stronger community engagement with the station.
News
The value of Australian wine exports to China lifted by 51 per cent in the year to March 2018 to reach $1.04 billion – the first time that exports to a single country have hit that level.
Peter Hanlon, it seems, has always been a contradiction. A punk-rock loving aesthete who has scaled the upper echelons of Australia’s finance industry and still sits at the helm of the Bank SA board and who, at 63, has recently found a new career path – as an arthouse filmmaker.
Australia’s tax debate continues to be mired in uncertainty and piecemeal tinkering, writes Adelaide tax lawyer Andrea Michaels.
Santos says it is in shareholders’ interests for it to “engage further” with a renewed bid by a US private equity firm to take over the South Australian-based oil and gas giant.
Magellan has quit its naming rights deal with Australian Test cricket, calling the ball-tampering scandal “inconsistent with our values”.
Business
The Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has promoted its chief customer officer as the lender’s first female managing director in the bank’s 160-year history.
Business
Myer’s executive chairman has issued a damning indictment of the department store chain’s performance under ex-chief executive Richard Umbers after it slumped to a $476.2 million first-half loss.
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