The 2010 Awards & Brickbats program is now open. See Awards & Brickbats for details.

See Water Action Coalition - Events

New Submissions page created under the Water Action Coalition link.

The license application for Adelaide's desalination plant is now open for publlic consultation (http://www.epa.sa.gov.au/what_we_do/open_for_consultation/adelaide_desalination_plant). The deadline for objections is 10 February 2010.

Hon Mark Parnell MLC moves WAC's proposal for a public inquiry into water management

MDB terms of reference and article by John Caldecott, plus WAC's Open Letter to all SA MLCs detailing the Terms of Reference for a Public Inquiry into the management of water and the environment.

Torrens Lake presentation and report of awards ceremony on AdelaideNow: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26400915-2682,00.html - see Awards & Brickbats for the results.

Annual Awards & Brickbats Ceremony - Old Parliament House, Wednesday 25 November at 3.30pm (recommended arrival: 3.00pm). Click on Contact to register.

WAC Open Letter to Premier

Successful WAC Rally

The Water Action Coalition will be launched on 19 July - see Water Action for details

The 2009 Awards & Brickbats program is now open. Click on AWARDS & BRICKBATS to download the nomination form.

Nominations for the 2008 Awards & Brickbats are now being received (closes 30 August 2008).

Click on AWARDS & BRICKBATS, then NOMINATION FORM

Note that the Awards & Brickbats presentation ceremony is in Old Parliament House North Terrace (enter Parliament House main entrance) at 3.30pm for 4.00pm on Friday 26th October (not the date originally on the nomination form). Please RSVP by Thursday 25 October to avoid queues at Security.

Some people may have received an early edition of The Advertiser on Tuesday 16 October which had a misprint on the first page regarding building in the parklands. This was corrected in later editions on that day.
 
The concept put forward by the Civic Trust on page 4 clearly separates the parklands from any building projects and even from hard surface sports by proposing that the parklands be reserved for soft-surface sports while hard-surface sports are encouraged in other areas such as within and above the rail yards area at Keswick and Mile End South.
 
This creates the best of both worlds by maintaining the parklands as Adelaide's world-renowned natural recreation area and dedicating a special area outside and west of the parklands to hard surface activities. The suggested layout would also enhance access by western suburbs residents to the parklands.

The voting for the People's Choice award is still on the AdelaideNow.com.au site but has shifted from Latest... to the horizontal banner of news items (scroll down once). As of 12 noon on 16/10 the People's Choice is the first item but new news items are entered from the left so it will gradually move to the right along the banner.

Alternatively, just enter Civic Trust into Google. An international search will bring up the AdelaideNow voting at about the sixth item.

The first stage of the Public Vision is now complete and focusses on the west side of the city. It will be published in The Advertiser on Tuesday 16 October 2007.

Many thanks to all those who contributed, both through the website and personally.

The People's Choice was launched in The Advertiser of 13/10/07, p33 and is now open.

To vote, enter the website adelaidenow.com.au. As of Saturday 13 October see LATEST... on the homepage and click through the images until you find the CIVIC TRUST AWARDS. Then click on Vote for your favourite. One vote is allowed for each category.

Note the location of the voting may evolve as other news comes onto the site. 

Public Vision Sep 07 has been created by incorporating the responses during August into a new set of discussion points, starting with Infrastructure. Any replies not incorporated in the main headings will be copied across separately.

Please check the new list. Comments are strongly encouraged and may be made as replies to the discussion points (remember to press Submit) or as email responses.

Recent media events include:

*    Sat 14 Jul: Advertiser p45, Tim Lloyd - "How do you see the City of Adelaide evolving?"

*    Wed 25 Jul, 12.10pm - 12.18pm: 1395 AM - 5AA Mornings with Leon Byner - live interview.

*    Tue 31 Jul, 1.45pm - 1.56pm: 891 AM - 891 ABC Afternoons with Carole Whitelock - live interview.

Public Vision Aug 07 has been created by incorporating the responses during July into a new set of discussion points and copying any additional items across as replies.

Please check the new list. Comments are most welcome as we need general feedback as well as specific responses to the discussion points.

The replies have been neck & neck while this question has been up and as of 1 August the responses are exactly 50/50.

The discussion points for the Public Vision are currently being updated for comment during August.

Please visit the new discussion after 10am on 1 August.

The Public Vision is a dynamic document and will be reviewed and republished once a month on the basis of the responses received and any new information.

The current Version 1 in July is the basic data-gathering phase with a wide range of initial topics listed for comments. This phase closes at 10am on 31 July.

Version 2, opening at 10 am on 1 August, will be a redraft of the discussion points on the basis of the replies.

The same process will occur at the beginning of September and October as we gradually focus on clear and succinct statements of the vision.

These updates may involve significant changes to the content and format, so please mark your diaries to recheck the status at these times.

The Civic Trust is now offering public notification for nominators/owners who wish to give associated public presentations or tours of their projects.

These activities will be the total responsibility of the owner and no responsibility or endorsement of any kind of the project itself is to be ascribed to the Civic Trust.

The aim is for members of the public to become more aware of the projects being considered for the People's Choice awards so that they are better informed when voting for the awards.

If any project owners wish to take advantage of this opportunity, please respond and we will discuss the best approach for that project.

An advice page will be set up on this website notifying the contact details for the project owners who wish to undertake these activities.

It must be Public Independence Day. The media launch of the Public Vision was sent out today. Click on PUBLIC VISION to see how the public can build a coordinated vision for the future.

The full list of discussion points is now in PUBLIC VISION:

• FORUM gives an overview listing all discussion points and replies.
• Infrastructure, Human Wellbeing and Environmental Sustainability contain the basic discussion points specific to each category.

A number of the main areas of infrastructure have been listed under PUBLIC VISION (see PUBLIC PROJECTS). These are Community wellbeing, Transport, Water, Energy, Broadband and Parklands. The initial recommended policies are listed for each.

Please check and add any further notes. We can gather the basic information in this way and will gradually consolidate the main points by consensus, with actual meetings as necessary.

Anyone may add comments but if someone new wants to be involved personally, please advise through the Contact form.

An independent public vision for the civic environment is being developed by the Civic Trust through community suggestions and responses by panels in the subject areas.

See PUBLIC VISION (under PUBLIC PROJECTS) for the discussion papers and to add your comments.

The discusion papers will evolve as the debate progresses. The aim is to pass the conclusions to the State Strategic Planning Team at the end of October for their consideration.

A new article on some of the infrastructure requirements in Adelaide is in Public Projects, Infrastructure.

Please check and respond on what you believe are our needs in infrastructure.

A discussion paper describing an Australian Human Wellbeing Index has been added to the Human Wellbeing page in Public Projects.

Comments are welcome.

Launch of the Australian Civic Trust website www.civictrust.net.au