PETER SMITH, CEO, Adelaide City Council: Re Self-interest the riverbank’s greatest threat (InDaily, 27 November 2013), genuine engagement will be critical to the successful establishment of any new governance model for the Riverbank.
While council has yet to receive a proposal on the new authority from the Government, I’m sure we, like many other stakeholders in the area look forward to the promised consultation and developing a better understanding of the Government’s proposition.
Any proposition will need to address the competing interests of the multiple stakeholders and boards that already exist in area for the good of the precinct as a whole. On this point I wholeheartedly agree with Malcolm Snow.
I also agree that success lies in partnerships and collaboration not “self-interest” and I’m keen to discuss and hear ideas from people on the options to achieve this through the promised public consultation process.
In my view the governance mechanism that is finally adopted has to have public interest and public value at its heart and there may well be several options to achieve this which deserve critical debate.
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I’d ask that my comments are not read as criticism of any new authority, rather, they are a contribution to an important debate about the future of a critical precinct in the city and I hope others feel free to join in without being accused of backing “self-interest”.
ANDREW MCKENZIE (Via Facebook): Straight off the bat (*swish*), the last thing I want to hear about while watching the cricket is depression let alone a ‘womans view’ of it (It’s a man’s world at Nine, InDaily, 28 November 2013). That is stuff for the real world. I don’t want to hear a debate either, unless of course it is about the merits of a silly mid off while KP is at the crease.
Secondly, is there any evidence of players ‘flatly denying’ to be interviewed by a woman? They don’t seem to have a problem at other levels.
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