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A $4 million upgrade to Thebarton Theatre, a $7.3 million Mount Barker regional aquatic centre and a $7.1 million Salisbury recreation precinct redevelopment are among more than $100 million “shovel-ready” projects to receive funding under a State Government infrastructure program aimed at creating jobs.
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Adelaide live music institution the Governor Hindmarsh may not survive the coronavirus shutdown without a direct subsidy from the State Government to help it stay in business, says owner Brian Tonkin.
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Premier and Arts Minister Steven Marshall declared at Thebarton Theatre’s 90th birthday party last year that the iconic music venue “must be protected – it must never be bulldozed”.
A petition launched Sunday night to save the heritage-listed Thebarton Theatre from threat of demolition in the South Road upgrade has already been signed by more than 32,000 people, as the State Government continues to refuse to guarantee the future of what it says is a “cultural icon”.
Fears that iconic, heritage-listed Thebarton Theatre could be bulldozed as part of the South Rd upgrade have prompted petitions and demands for the Marshall Government to rule it out.
Dual headliners Magma and Sunn O))) took us on a journey all the way from an Elven forest to the land of Mordor at this closing-night Adelaide Festival concert.
