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Adelaide City councillor Robert Simms has pulled his request for an urgent meeting to stop a legal review of the Hutt Street Centre, instead opting to delay the vote until next month to include newly-elected councillor Greg Mackie.
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SA History Trust CEO and Adelaide Festival of Ideas founder Greg Mackie has been elected as the new Adelaide City Council central ward councillor to replace Houssam Abiad.
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The weekend’s rejuvenated Adelaide Festival of Ideas has thrown up a challenging central idea about the culture of South Australia, with festival founder and public sector executive Greg Mackie raising questions about time-wasting, politicisation and a lack of external focus in the public service.
In what might be a unique venture in South Australia’s proud festival history, the Festival of Ideas will be resurrected tonight after volunteers, institutions and businesses stepped in to fill a void left by the removal of wholesale government funding.
American environmental activist Erin Brockovich – whose story was dramatised in the 2000 Hollywood film starring Julia Roberts – is the first guest speaker to be revealed for the 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas.
