Dubious Australia: A Spot of Bother
At the height of the Second World War, Brisbane, like most Australian cities, experienced a sudden influx of U.S servicemen as they prepared to take the fight back to the Japanese. However tensions quickly grew between the Australian soldiers and their U.S counterparts over the higher wages paid to the latter. These higher salaries allowed U.S serv...
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Learning To Be Somewhere
SAM RODGERS looks at why our import students could be the key to energising the city Photos by HARMONY NICHOLAS Imagine you’ve just arrived at Adelaide airport. What kind of city greets you? You take a peek through the massive windows of the only terminal and see squat hills sitting lazily above flat suburbia, and just to the left is the ...
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Life, Death and Offset Printing
STAN MAHONEY cuts his teeth on some honest outback journalism – and asks what the world will look like without it By 2011, if the Governor of California has his way, roughly 90 percent of all state schoolchildren will learn from electronic textbooks – portable devices not unlike watered-down iPhones. Similar plans have been mooted in...
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Sweet Talking Trus'Me
There's a reason why some clubs last longer than others. There's a reason why the others go from boom to bust in a matter of seasons and some pull through, steady sailing the waves of fickle party-goers and modern-music-fads. The reason from what we can tell, is that they care about what they do. Sugar nightclub has been an outpost for late-night r...
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New Places, New City
OWEN LINDSAY takes a look at the progress of Renew Adelaide – a project set to revive the stagnant areas of town It started, like a lot of ambitious ideas, during a boozy conversation. Ianto Ware was chatting with Marcus Westbury at an interstate arts fair when the topic of Renew Newcastle came up. In a nutshell, Renew Newcastle is an on...
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Apparently, There's This
Urban myths in Adelaide... now there’s an eye-catching opener. Within your two decades or more of being a South Australian inhabitant, you’ve surely heard some stories down the grapevine while indulging in a carafe on Rundle Street or from the people sitting in front of you on the bus. So which of the bits of gossip are true, and wh...
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All Washed Up
One of the more important sections of the Australian Constitution is section 119 (The Protection of States from Invasion and Violence), which states: The Commonwealth shall protect every State against invasion and, on the application of the Executive Government of the State, against domestic violence. Seems a fairly sensible passage at first ...
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The Difference a Dollar Makes
JOSHUAFANNING discovers that a city can only grow and become what you want it to if you feed and nurture it. The Internet said something beautiful to me the other day. It wasn’t a brash statement like what I’d imagine the all-powerful, world-wide phenomenon to come up with. No. It 
was a quiet thing. It said: “Here w...
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The Lying Dutchman
The disappearance of the Beaumont children from Glenelg Beach on Australia Day 1966 was a harrowing event in the history of our State. The parents of Grant, Arnna and Jane, as well as the entire population of South Australia were desperate for their return, and were prepared to do anything to get them back safely. This included paying top dollar...
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No Vacancies
BEN REVI travels to the past and finds some fresh ideas for Adelaide’s future Things don’t always turn over so quickly in Adelaide. All over the city, ‘for lease’ signs remain inside dirty windows; through many a locked glass door, piles of unopened mail and paint cans are all that can be seen. This opens up quite a fasci...
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