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The State Government’s trouble-plagued urban renewal authority Renewal SA has parted ways with the last remaining member of its former executive team, with former acting CEO Damian De Luca leaving the agency today.
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UPDATED: Two years after its “landmark” design for a mooted Adelaide Contemporary art gallery at Lot Fourteen was scrapped by the Marshall Government, architecture firm Woods Bagot has been commissioned to undertake preliminary design work on the new Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre at the same North Terrace site.
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Adelaide’s Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre could rival architectural icons such as the Sydney Opera House and use cutting-edge technology to portray First Nations culture in never-before-seen ways, but could also be at risk of bureaucratic stonewalling. Stephanie Richards talks to the man appointed as a key leader of the $150 million gallery.
The State Government is advertising for a director to deliver the $150 million Aboriginal art and culture gallery planned for Lot Fourteen – before cabinet ministers sign off on an overdue business case outlining the centre’s viability.
A former Renewal SA executive facing charges relating the alleged misuse of allowances totalling a little over $1000 has had her role “terminated”, the agency’s new boss has revealed.
Former Renewal SA boss John Hanlon has described as “nonsense” allegations he fraudulently claimed thousands of dollars in travel expenses for personal benefit, as he fronted court for the first time since being charged after a long-running ICAC investigation.
Adelaide City councillors have vowed to oppose a State Government plan to build a rates-free hotel at Lot Fourteen, with one declaring the council must “rule this out now” in the wake of the Adelaide Oval Hotel controversy.
