Adelaide

The Eyre Peninsula's Tunarama Festival has succumbed to sponsorship woes after 60 years. Festival president Sharon Humenick said she was proud of everyone who helped support Tunarama over the years, but this year's festival would be its last.

Unsound festival returns to Adelaide this weekend. The linked article has an interview with the organisers about it. In my opinion we're lucky to have this event here, I thought that once David Sefton finished his time as Festival director it would be over or would be perhaps poached by another state, really happy that there has been such commitment to keeping it going, both from Unsound's Mat and Gosia, and the people locally who've kept it going here.

It may have taken them a decade to get back on the podium, but the Adelaide Thunderbirds have finally lifted a national netball league trophy for the first time since 2013.

Adelaide Fringe organisers have applied to Adelaide City Council to close Rundle Road in the East End from February 7 to March 21 next year.

The six-week closure will allow the expansion of the Garden of Unearthly Delights and Gluttony to include two new venues of 800 and 1000 seats that will spill onto Rundle Road.

Organisers say the new venues would host up to four shows a day for 28 days and improve disability access for the Fringe Corner Box Office.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1041490

1. How the hell was this not already a parole condition?
2. Church's are scrambling to finally allow female priests ;-)

The university councils only received the full business case for consideration last week, but approved it within days. Both universities say full details will be kept under wraps, due to commercial considerations, and they will only publicly release a summary.

Mullighan said EVs were far more expensive than their petrol counterparts, with a Hyundai Kona Elite electric model priced at $54,500 compared with a regular Kona at $26,900.

“Many battery electric vehicles are cost prohibitive, so they are above a price threshold that the fleet would normally pay for other fleet vehicles, but of course as technology improves and volume efficiencies are achieved it is expected price parity will occur sometime in the future,” he said.

The Malinauskas Government – which strongly backed amalgamation and would have re-established a merger commission of inquiry had the universities not “voluntarily” approved it – has committed $445.5m to support the merger via perpetual investment funds, land purchases and $30m for measures attract international students.

Just bought this and I'm waiting for it. It's been out a couple of years without any of the Dark Emu pile on. Maybe adding Bill Gammage's name means that it gets a pass mark because, you know, white guy.

Treasurer Stephen Mullighan says that if the universities of Adelaide and South Australia don’t “voluntarily” agree to amalgamate they risk losing merger support funding while still facing a government-established inquiry to “find ways in which the universities can merge”.

A sea wall protecting the iconic Joe’s kiosk at Henley Beach is in danger of collapsing as sand continues to disappear along the city’s coastline, with an engineering report showing the 1950s structure needs urgent protection work.

The jobs of around 160 workers are uncertain after an Adelaide plastics manufacturer and supplier of wheelie bins to councils entered voluntary administration after 30 years of trading.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/203096

Coastal erosion is washing sand away from some of Adelaide's most popular beaches at a rapid pace, with a state government review still months away from completion.

This is happening at the moment," he said.

An independent advisory panel will analyse public feedback, as well as a scientific review, before it delivers its recommended advice to the government.

Mr Searle said the panel would not rule out any possible approaches, including the construction of a pipeline which would pump excess sand from northern beaches such as Semaphore and Largs Bay back to West Beach — a project which was initially proposed by the previous government.

"Particularly with climate change and the rising sea level, we need to be really confident as we move forward that we've got it covered for today, that we've also considered the future as well.

"Because we've had a lot of sand taken out of here in the last few years, the beaches are eroding and there's a lot of concern that the dunes are threatened," he said.

The organisers of popular Fringe venue Gluttony say they’ll have to consider how they operate, charging entry or shrinking in size after an Adelaide City Council decision to re-introduce fees for hiring the park lands for events.

Michael Aish, a member of one of South Australia's most famous football families, has been inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame

A cave diver says there is a very good chance a sinkhole that appeared in Mount Gambier on Sunday is connected to other passages under South Australia's second-largest city.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/177367

Researchers at Flinders University's College of Science and Engineering have been conducting tests to provide a better understanding of sand boil formation mechanisms, with particular relevance to those found in intertidal zones-including at Sellicks Beach on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula.

Sand boils occur where groundwater discharges to the land surface under sufficient hydraulic gradient to cause internal erosion and the upward transport of particles-and new research from Dr. Amir Jazayeri and Professor Adrian Werner at Flinders University's College of Science & Engineering and the National Center for Groundwater Research and Training has identified better ways to identify and measure them.

"A proper understanding of sand boil processes is essential in evaluating a wide range of geomechanical and sediment transport situations under which groundwater seepage occurs, such as the effects of groundwater discharge on beach stability."

"Our research focused on two key knowledge gaps in the current understanding of sand boil formation, being the effect of sand layer thickness on sand boil formation and the reformation of sand boils under variable driving head conditions," says Professor Werner.

SMMRY

Property owners downstream of a dam at risk of failing in the Adelaide Hills fear a potential cascade effect, with another dam directly in the firing line if the top one gives way.

Kudos to the Crows for really taking the game to the Magpies in the 3rd quarter, just a shame that they couldn't quite get there in the end.

The free kicks continue to not go Adelaide's way :-\

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/144332

https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/visit/adelaide-botanic-garden/architecture/

Youtube description: The conservatory in Adelaide Botanic Garden, South Australia, is one of Australia's most prized buildings. It was constructed for Australia's bicentenary in 1988 to house a tropical rainforest which is now thriving, but Rob was able to get a sneak preview inside before it opened and he explains some of the revolutionary features of this impressive building.

Make sure to follow-up with a recent walkthrough to see the difference since 1988.