Letters to the Editor on uni closing doors on heritage graduation space
This week, InDaily readers have their say on a ditched university graduation tradition and a scathing report into the city’s remand centre.
Responding to ‘History erased’: Fight to keep landmark graduation hall open for business
As an alumnus, I agree that graduations at the traditional places should not be altered. – Elizabeth Keam
A great pity to see the Bonython Hall no longer used for graduation ceremonies.
This is not surprising when the new Vice-Chancellor, Nicola Phillips, says that “we have an organisation now where everything is new, side to side, bottom to top”.
These words demonstrate an aim to obliterate the past and not to make it an essential feature of the new entity.
The University of Adelaide, founded in 1874, was ranked 89th in the 2024 QS World University ranking. Its distinct traditions and ethos should be incorporated in the merged Adelaide University, not buried. – B. Della-Putta
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Responding to Govt ploughing ahead with $45 million golf course upgrade
The article concerning the premier’s announcement and doubling down on golf events for Adelaide is revealing. It reveals a slippery use of language where contradictions are meant to go unnoticed. While Malinauskas lauds the investment in a world-class golf course in our park lands, he blithely ignores that the park lands are just that – park lands bequeathed in perpetuity to the public as an amenity, not as a redevelopment site to boost ratings for a particular demographic. – Gil Anaf
May the LIV Golf booze-fest, with fly-in-fly-out pro golfers, rest in peace.
May we thank Saudi Arabia that its golfing billions will be used more productively for its populace.
May we reject the three seedlings spin because they take a generation or two to grow to nascent maturity.
May those golfing with their clubs and balls ponder about the $45 – 60M sunk public cost on a course we used to play.
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May we labour under no illusions about the public maintenance cost of a golfing estate for privileged professional golfers.
We’ll labour longer for a public spend of tens of millions for eventful pro-golfers and more built form on what is now the minister’s park lands.
“Ploughing ahead” and cutting through, but hardly progress or progressive. – Elbert Brooks
Responding to Upper house pollies locked in… one day before parliament resumes
I was registered to work at the state election; however, after poor communication, last-minute training that was poorly delivered, and no shift information the day before polling commenced, I withdrew and expressed my concerns to the manager that this election would be a shambles. – Keith Gillard
Responding to Hefty rise to SA election voting chief’s $300,000 pay packet revealed
I voted in Plympton Park two days before the election. It was chaotic. No organisation and seemingly no one in charge. On my way out after an hour, a staff member confirmed my sense that everything was a mess. “It’s usually worse”, she told me. – Michael Galvin
Responding to New report finds private operation of city remand centre has ‘failed’
Yet another example of the privatisation of government services costing more and not delivering. We have seen this now for decades with a number of essential services, such as NDIS, aged care, public transport and the list goes on; it’s about profit, not service. The sooner we ditch neoliberalism, the better. – Graham Wilkinson
Responding to Electric shock: SA car sales set new record
We hear much about billions being spent to safeguard petrol and diesel supplies. Yet the shift in Australia is clearly toward vehicles without combustion engines. Wouldn’t it make more sense to invest those funds in strengthening electric vehicle infrastructure instead of fossil fuel storage? Supporting EVs is not only a wiser use of resources but also a forward‑looking vision for a cleaner, more sustainable future. – Robin Sands
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