North Adelaide Not-So-Confidential

In today’s Notes on Adelaide, the city council gets a bit sloppy with protecting confidentiality, the State Government embraces a ‘lite’ version of Weatherill-era “new democracy” and a spat emerges over the state of the Premier’s office equipment.

Inside the 'chaos' and 'bias' of the citizens' jury

Political scientist Haydon Manning was called as an expert witness to the State Government’s citizens’ jury on the nuclear waste dump proposal. What he experienced, and what he has learned since, has led him to question the value of the Government’s “deliberative democracy” push.