crawf wrote:gregrogers257 wrote:1) A number of good developments including the airport and holdfast shores down at glenelg.
2) A strong economy and low unemployment. There's the olympic dam mining project that has a lot of potential as well as the destroyer contract which in itself will bring in billions of dollars over the next few years.
(In addition to the destroyer project the Collins Class submarines have been around for quite a while now and will therefore need to be replaced soon. This will be another multi billion dollar project which will have to be undertaken in adelaide.)
3) Great events such as the Clipsal 500, the Fringe Festival, Womadelaide, etc. We also just hosted the biggest band in the world which was attended by 60,000 people ! Perth missed out alltogether on U2 and I know that up in Brisbane they only had 45,000.
4) Confidence in South Australia is rapidly growing.
- $7b Olympic Dam Expansion
- $6b Air Warfare Destroyer Contract
- $1.5b Port Adelaide Redevelopment
- $700m City Central Project
- $500m West Central Project (new world-class bus terminal)
- $500m Northern Expressway
- $400m Port Lincoln Housing Development
- $260m Adelaide Airport Terminal
- $250m Port Hughes Development
- $250m Port Wakefield Marina & Housing Development
- $170m Flinders Link Project
- $70m AAMI Stadium Upgrade
- $60m State Swimming Centre
- $30m Tram Extention
Plus billions of dollars worth of mining, defence, infrastructure, retail, housing, building and marina developments (Hindmarsh Island, Cape Jaffa, Mannum, Port Wakefield, Wallaroo, Port Vincent, Port Lincoln, Boston Island (of pt lincoln), Ceduna and more...)
More & more people are moving to the festival state
South Australia's Population is now growing at 0.8% (12,000 people) a year compard to 0.5% a few years ago. And people moving interstate is started to rapidly fall
Tourism in South Australia is starting to surge
- International Visitors to SA has increased by 40% over the last 3 years
- Adelaide hosted its first ever Australian Tourism Exchange mid this year
- The South Australian Tourism Commission launched a new campaign, logo and slogan (SA - A Brilliant Blend), Which is very clever and impressive IMO.
Though theres still alot of room for improvment
South Australian Events are getting bigger and better ever year
- The World-renowned Adelaide Fringe will be annual from next year
- Clipsal 500 is going from strength to strength
- Tour Down Under is now Australias biggest cycling race, and is starting to put Adelaide on the map
- Talk of Adelaide hosting the World BMX Championships, FIFA World Cup and Commonwealth Games
- The Adelaide Festival Centre has launched a year long of theater productions
Adelaide becoming the City of Markets??
- Rundle Street Markets was launched a couple of months ago and it has been a success
- Festival Centre now has markets set up around the centre on Sundays
- The Showgrounds has launched Farmers Markets on Sundays and has been very popular
Is Adelaide fast becoming Australias Learning Capital??
- International Students studying in Adelaide is now around 20,000 and growing at a rapid rate
- Australia's first foriegn university 'Canigen Mellon" opened two campuses in Adelaide this year (Vic Square & Light Square)
- 5 more Foriegn Universities are looking at opening up campuses in Adelaide
- The SA Governments
Study Adelaide Campaign has been a massive success
- TAFESA is regarded as one of best vocational education and training providers in the country
- This year has seen a surge of applicants to study at TAFE SA's 53 campuses around the state
Is Adelaide really going through a contruction boom?
judge for yourself
While South Australia is definitely improving it still has alot of room for improvement
- Negative Attitude (thinking that Adelaide is a hole and the other 4 cities are heaps better is getting this city nowhere)
- Conservative Attitude (this is really holding the state back IMO)
- Population Growth (while the annual population growth is increasing, theres still room for improvement)
- Red Tape (this should be cut by 20-35%)
- Crime (I know SA's crime rate is falling, but its still pretty high for my liking)
- Public Transport (While Adelaides bus & tram network is pretty good, its train system is a fringing joke)
- Trading Hours (After living in Victoria for 10 years, Adelaides trading hours is weird and a joke - but not as bad as Perth i must say)
Another problem is the greater job opportunities & better salaries interstate. People arnt going to stay in SA if they can get better job opportunities and bigger pay packets interstate (such as WA or NT)
Even for myself once ive completed all my courses, theres a 80% chance ill be moving interstate at the end of next year. because the field i want to get into hasnt got much job opportunities in SA compard to like NT or QLD, plus i want to be financially secured and travel.
But i dont think SA can really do anything about that, until the mining & defence boom takes off.
theres probley more stuff, but im to tired to write anymore
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