Missed something in InDaily? Here are quick links to the best news, opinion and features from Adelaide’s independent news website this week.
Question of the week
Are we going to stop complaining and embrace Adelaide Oval? The answer seems to be a firm ‘yes‘.
News
The debate about Government cuts to helicopter shark patrols heated up after the service spotted four sharks last weekend.
Anne Bampton, an appointee to the bench of the Supreme Court, admitted to a serious lapse of judgement after hitting a cyclist while drink driving.
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Premier and Treasurer Jay Weatherill handed down his Mid Year Budget Review, promising a return to surplus by 2015/16. Within just one day, however, his economic growth forecast started to look shaky.
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The Director of Public Prosecutions has referred to SA Police “certain matters” arising from the case of a convicted embezzler employed by Families SA as a financial counsellor.
The Local Government Association took a slap at Planning Minister John Rau over changes to the planning system which it says have alienated certain councils.
Opinion
The new Committee for Adelaide made a plea for South Australia to “stop comparing and start competing“.
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Unley Mayor Lachlan Clyne argued that inner city councils need to have more say in the way the parklands are managed.
Arts & culture
We meet one of The Illusionists – “the hypnotist” whose on-stage interactions can have some surprising effects.
The line-up for the 2014 Adelaide Festival’s Artists Week has been announced.
Adelaide enfant terrible, Christopher Barnett, is back in the spotlight with the launch of a new book.
Reviews of the RocKwiz stage show, and films Kill Your Darlings and How I Live Now, and novel The Full Ridiculous by Mark Lamprell.
Food & wine
Philip Wine dissects the various wine gangs, why foodies are the new critics, Zema Estate’s Coonawarra wines reviewed, and The Forager’s weekly dose of food news.
