Gillman, South Australia

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Gillman
Adelaide,  South Australia
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Aerial view of Gillman and surrounding areas
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Gillman
Gillman, South Australia
Coordinates 34°50′28″S138°31′37″E / 34.84111°S 138.52694°E / -34.84111; 138.52694
Population76 (SAL 2021) [1]
Postcode(s) 5013
LGA(s) City of Port Adelaide Enfield
State electorate(s) Port Adelaide
Federal division(s) Hindmarsh
Suburbs around Gillman:
Port Adelaide
Garden Island		 Garden Island Garden Island
Port Adelaide Gillman Dry Creek
Wingfield
Port Adelaide
Rosewater		 Rosewater Ottoway
FootnotesAdjoining suburbs [2]

Gillman is a predominantly industrial north-western suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is located within the federal Division of Hindmarsh and the state electoral district of Port Adelaide. [3]

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Railway yards

Gillman had been the site of railway marshalling yards on the Dry Creek–Port Adelaide railway line. The line was constructed through the area in 1868, leading in to Port Dock railway station. Connections were created from the yard to the industrial and port sidings on the eastern side of the Port River. In 1915, a junction to the south was added called the Rosewater Loop, which connected the Dry Creek line to a new alignment of the Outer Harbor railway line through a new Port Adelaide railway station and bridge over the Port River.

The tracks in the area were converted from broad gauge to dual broad and standard gauge in 1982 as part of the works to convert the Adelaide to Crystal Brook railway to standard gauge. [4]

The Gillman marshalling yards were closed and removed in the early 1990s, leaving the Rosewater Loop as the main line, and a northern branch to sidings on the Port Flats.

In 2008, the Rosewater Loop was closed and the main line branched from the Port Flats branch over the new Mary MacKillop Bridge.

Multifunction Polis

Gillman was intended to be the site of the Multifunction Polis (MFP), a joint project by the Australian and Japanese Governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. Started in 1987 by the Hawke government, the MFP was intended to be a high-tech industry and technology hub with local laws similar to those found in special economic zones around the world today. [5] [6] Protests from the local community and controversy over the proposed partnership with Japan led to the collapse of the project, which later was re-purposed into Technology Park and Mawson Lakes nearby. [7]

Motorsport

Gillman has been the home of Motorcycle Speedway in Adelaide since 1981 when the 280-metre (920 ft) North Arm Speedway opened. The speedway, located on the Grand Trunkway, operated from 1981 until its forced closure in 1997.[ why? ] Since 1998 it has been the home of a larger motorcycle speedway venue, the 300-metre (980 ft) Gillman Speedway located on Wilkins Road.

Explosives

The North Arm Powder Magazine in Gillman was from 1858 to 1906 a secure storage facility for dynamite and gelignite. [8]

Gillman controversy

In June 2013, the Weatherill state government received a proposal from Adelaide Capital Partners (ACP) to purchase 400 hectares (990 acres) of Gillman land for $135 million over three instalments, which was approved in December 2013 and supposed to create 6000 jobs. [9] However, the process was later criticised by the state Opposition and subsequently the Supreme Court of South Australia who ruled the deal "unlawful, irrational and in disregard of commercial principles", but said the contract was valid despite criticising the government's failure to put the land to public tender. [10] [9] A potential High Court action was resolved in an out-of-court deal, with South Australian Attorney General John Rau confirming the parties settled, with the government paying legal costs incurred by all parties, estimated to be no more than $2.2 million. [11] [12] In November 2016, ACP failed to make payment, and the government was forced to pay the Adelaide City Council $20 million for land it purchased as part of the original deal. [13] The government has since sold part of the property to Veolia for use as a waste-to-energy plant, although the vast majority remains in government hands. [14] [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Gillman (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "Search result for "Gillman (Suburb)" (Record no SA0026133) with the following layers being selected - "Suburbs and Localities"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "District of Port Adelaide Background Profile". ELECTORAL COMMISSION SA. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  4. ↑ RAILWAY AGREEMENT (ADELAIDE TO CRYSTAL BROOK RAILWAY) ACT 1980 ( cth )
  5. ↑ "Rundle: leaking the 'Multi-function Polis', or how I won the 1990 election for Andrew Peacock". Crikey. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Multi Function Polis 'had wrong name'". 31 December 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "SA's big bang theory: lessons from inside the MFP - InDaily". InDaily. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Explosives storage in Magazine Creek, Port Adelaide district, 1857-1906. Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, Nr. 35, 2007.
  9. 1 2 "A timeline of events in the Gillman land deal". ABC News. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "Gillman land deal has short-changed taxpayers" . Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  11. ↑ "$2.2m legal bill to clean up Gillman mess" . Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  12. ↑ "November deadline or Gillman deal drops dead - InDaily". InDaily. 5 April 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  13. ↑ "Financial deadline for Gillman land deal missed". ABC News. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  14. ↑ "Spurned Gillman bidder wins new deal" . Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  15. ↑ "Veolia purchases land at Gillman after failed controversial deal". ABC News. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2017.


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