Walt Disney, the Taliban and Adelaide City Council's fireworks debate

An Adelaide city councillor has compared elected members who suggest replacing New Year’s Eve fireworks with laser light shows to the Taliban, and invoked Walt Disney’s “iconic” fireworks imagery to claim such a move was “beating up on children”.

Fireworks over councillor's Australia Day move

Adelaide City Councillor Anne Moran has stood by a comment she sent in an email to elected members suggesting that the city’s Australia Day fireworks be cancelled as they upset “new immigrants because they remind them of the bombing and wars they have been traumatised by”.